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Fox17
April 22, 2018
Ed Hood of Comstock Park is the Army veteran who served in the Vietnam war that received the Purple Heart Sunday. The Purple Heart is a military decoration reserved for those either wounded or killed in action. “Every day was a nightmare. Every day you were getting fired upon, shot at,” said Hood.
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
April 22, 2018
A military decoration of France, it was commonly given to military forces allied to France. It is awarded to individuals or units to those soldiers who distinguish themselves by acts of heroism involving combat with the enemy. The heroic act would have to be mentioned in dispatches to be considered for theÃâà...
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
April 22, 2018
The Purple Heart is a military decoration awarded to those wounded or killed in combat. Ole Miss is one of four SEC institutions to hold a Purple Heart University designation for their work to accommodate veterans and Purple Heart recipients. Over 1,300 Ole Miss students have military connections, withÃâà...
O'Dwyer's PR News
April 12, 2018
Howard Consulting Group is working Capitol Hill on behalf of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, which wants to build a facility to honor recipients of the nation's highest military decoration. Washington-based HCG will push for appropriations, tackle land use issues and educate Members ofÃâà...
Public Reporter
April 10, 2018
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KXII-TV
April 5, 2018
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration and only a handful have received the award, like Captain Gary Rose. He was a medic in the Army Special Forces during the Vietnam War and was part of a classified mission titled "Operation Tailwind". A mission that took place in northern Cambodia,Ãâà...
WMU News
April 4, 2018
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The owner and president of Amhawk, a full-service metal fabrication company, will be featured in the next installment of the Entrepreneurship Forum speaker series hosted by Western Michigan University's Haworth College of Business. Regi Kurien will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, April 13,Ãâà...
KXII-TV
April 4, 2018
It was all to honor 17 of those who've received the highest military decoration, a Medal of Honor. "The procession coming here, the welcome that we got at the airport, it's just remarkable," Medal of Honor recipient James McCloughan said. People like Army Vietnam veteran James McCloughan. "I was justÃâà...
Battle Creek Enquirer
March 29, 2018
In 2017, McCloughan was awarded the Medal of Honor — the highest US military decoration — for saving the lives of 10 fellow soldiers as well as a Vietnamese translator during the battle for Nui Yon Hill in 1969. "I've gone to a lot of places and seen a lot of things since this medal was put around my neck,"Ãâà...
Moultrie News
March 26, 2018
The Congressional Medal of Honor is our nation's highest military decoration. Since its founding in 1863, 3,517 Medals of Honor have been awarded. The award unites Americans around what it means to be patriotic. “What is exceptional about the National Medal of Honor Museum is that it's a living thingÃâà...
Investor Opinion
March 21, 2018
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WSMV Nashville
March 20, 2018
Lt. William McBryar was a Buffalo Soldier who was awarded America's highest military decoration for his actions during the Cherry Creek Campaign in the Arizona Territory in 1890. His citation said he was distinguished for "coolness, bravery and marksmanship" while his 10th Cavalry troop was in pursuit ofÃâà...
MyCentralJersey.com
March 8, 2018
The question was, how could they be given a military decoration if they weren't soldiers? These women had been sworn in as soldiers, treated with the understanding that they had to abide by military rules, including the threat of Court Martial for infractions of military law. The action by the government was aÃâà...
hngnews.com
March 8, 2018
A security system that immediately detects gunshots, a new wrinkle in laundry service, metal 3D printing, wearable technology, an electricity generator, a water quality detection device and organic baby food are among the top 50. Among entries that advanced are software or information systems related toÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
March 8, 2018
As construction progressed along the north river bank, a group of prisoners arranged rocks of different sizes to form the outline of the Iron Cross, a military decoration of the German Empire that was reintroduced by the Nazi Army with a swastika added to the center. Upon discovering the symbol, many Roswell citizens wereÃâà...
Daily Record
March 8, 2018
The question was, how could they be given a military decoration if they weren't soldiers? These women had been sworn in as soldiers, treated with the understanding that they had to abide by military rules, including the threat of Court Martial for infractions of military law. The action by the government was aÃâà...
BusinessNorth.com
March 4, 2018
A security system that immediately detects gunshots, a new wrinkle in laundry service, metal 3D printing, wearable technology, an electricity generator, a water quality detection device and organic baby food are among the top 50. Among entries that advanced are software or information systems related toÃâà...
Reading Eagle
March 2, 2018
There, at a secret CIA outpost code named Lima Site 85, that popular, at times devilish tennis champ from Hamburg would engage in acts of heroism that would earn him the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. Cory Etchberger, 59, a retired biology professor who lives in MontgomeryÃâà...
WKYT
March 2, 2018
Meyer, a native of Columbia, received the Medal of Honor – the highest military decoration awarded by the United States Government -- in 2011. At the time, he was only the third living recipient of the award since Vietnam, and the first living U.S. Marine in 41 years to be so honored. Below is the statementÃâà...
Danbury News Times
February 27, 2018
Peagler was posthumously awarded The Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the United States Army. Of the million African-Americans who fought in World War II, nine were awarded the DSC. No African-American were awarded theÃâà...
Inside Edition
February 27, 2018
After President Trump slammed Florida deputies for failing to stop the Parkland high school shooting, a Medal of Honor recipient says rushing into the scene of a mass shooting is "probably the worst thing you can do." Staff Sergeant Ty Carter received America's highest military decoration for runningÃâà...
ABC News
February 20, 2018
The Medal of Heroism is a military decoration awarded by the Department of the Army to a JROTC Cadet who performs an act of heroism. According to the Army, the act must be "so exceptional and outstanding that it clearly sets the individual apart from fellow students or from other persons in similarÃâà...
News-Press Now
February 18, 2018
SURPRISE, Ariz. It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of William "Bill" and "Woody" T. Woodyard on February 13, 2018, in Surprise. Born in St. Joseph in 1919, Bill was a 1937 graduate of Lafayette High School, a member of the National Honor Society and a letterman in both track andÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 14, 2018
The bill upgrades the Navy Cross award to the highest U.S. military decoration. The bill also waives a requirement that service members must receive the Medal of Honor within five years since the heroic event took place. Canley, who spent 28 years in the service, left El Dorado at the age of 15 to join theÃâà...
WBOY-TV
February 14, 2018
PARSONS, W.Va. - A proclamation was made during the Tucker County Commission meeting in honor of the county's Purple Heart recipients. The Purple Heart is the oldest military decoration created as a Badge of Military Merit in 1872. Tucker County has a number of residents who have been awardedÃâà...
Vallejo Times Herald
February 10, 2018
Among the 14 medals Branch received is the Silver Star, a military decoration for gallantry in combat, and the Purple Heart, the latter accorded to all service persons for being wounded in combat. Harris began his Air Force career in 1961 and was one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the popular name for aÃâà...
Wilkes Journal Patriot
February 6, 2018
Fifteen recipients of the Medal of Honor, the United States' most prestigious military decoration, participated in the official coin toss ceremony. World War II veteran Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams, who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima, actually flipped the coin,Ãâà...
WKRG
February 4, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The NFL saluted 15 recipients of the Medal of Honor, the United States' most prestigious military decoration, when they participated in the coin toss before the Super Bowl on Feb. 4. Command Sergeant Major Bennie Adkins was born in Opelika, Alabama in February 1934. AdkinsÃâà...
News & Observer
February 4, 2018
Marm, 76, will stand on the field beside fourteen other veterans who have received the country's most prestigious military decoration at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the NFL announced in late January. Marm, a Pennsylvania native, moved to Fremont with his wife, her hometown, to help run herÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
The Purple Heart is a military decoration awarded to those wounded or killed in combat. Ole Miss is one of four SEC institutions to hold a Purple Heart University designation for their work to accommodate veterans and Purple Heart recipients. Over 1,300 Ole Miss students have military connections, withÃâà...
Daily Sentinel
December 31, 1999
POINT PLEASANT — The Purple Heart is defined as a U.S. military decoration for those wounded or killed in action. Mason County Commissioners recently held a reception to honor Mason County's Purple Heart recipients. Any individual within Mason County who had received a Purple Heart or a lovedÃâà...
Ask Reporter 24
December 31, 1999
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