WILKES-BARRE — Korean War veteran and Purple Heart recipient Donald R. Williams was honored Tuesday in his hometown for a lifetime of service — to his country and to his community — during a ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday awarded retired Army Col. Ralph Puckett Jr. with the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor, for “acts of gallantry and intrepidity” during the ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) — WMBD is continuing to highlight veterans voices from across our region. This week, we’re meeting a father/son duo who continue to advocate for veteran honor flights. Roger ...
Joseph White, a former state trooper and Korean War veteran, was honored in Milford with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
U.S. Army Cpl. Eriverto Ortiz, the Korean War veteran whose remains were reunited with his family in Elgin more than 70 years after his combat death, will receive an honorary street name bestowed by ...
It was a much simpler time when Rod Williams was growing up on Jackson Avenue in Celoron. He was born on October 10, 1931, in a Jamestown hospital, although he doesn’t know which of the two it was.
Sixty-eight years later, a Schuylerville family finally got closure now that their military hero has been buried with full honors and is home where he belongs. “I honestly thought it was some sort of ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- On this Veteran's Day, a surprise for a man who has done so much for veterans in his community. "I'm not scared to open my mouth. I speak my truth. I'm an American," said John Scala ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The death of an 85-year-old man in Raleigh has been ruled a homicide. Benjamin Franklin Merritt was found dead June 13 at his home on Evers Drive. Police said Merritt died from ...
He’ll be awarded a Silver Star, Purple Heart, a Prisoner of War Medal, a World War II Victory Medal, a Korean Service Medal and other posthumous honors. Davis was missing in action after a battle in ...
"He told me, the thing he's most proud of in his life, other than his family, is that he was a U.S. veteran," Jerry Olinger recalled. COSHOCTON − As Jack Olinger neared the end of his life in a care ...