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CPT Kelly Elminger, U.S. Army, Iraq, Afghanistan, Paralympics
Kelly Elmlinger was a three-sport athlete in high school. She excelled in cross country, basketball, and track. After considering military service, she decided to keep playing sports at the next leve…
Published on 2 months ago
Louis Bourgault, USMC, WWII, Iwo Jima, Bougainville
Louis Bourgault was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor - too young to formally join the military. After his father rejected a teenage plot to go join the Canadian forces, Bourgault …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
LtCol Doug Bahrns, USMC, Iraq, Afghanistan, Battle of Fallujah
Doug Bahrns knew he wanted to be a U.S. Marine Corps officer when he finished high school a couple of years before 9/11. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and was commissioned as a Ma…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
SGT Scotty Hasting, U.S. Army, Afghanistan, Purple Heart
Scotty Hasting is now a popular country music singer but his story of service will explain a lot about the performer you see today.
Hasting grew up in the Cincinnati, Ohio-Northern Kentucky area and d…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
PO2 Bob Ingram, U.S. Navy Corpsman, Vietnam, Medal of Honor
Bob Ingram joined the Navy after graduating high school in 1963 to give himself some direction. He was initially assigned to work in electronics, but after getting a bad case of pneumonia, Ingram was…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
CPL Harold Terens, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Harold Terens was just 18 years old and playing basketball with his friends when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Like many Americans, he had no idea where Pearl Harbor was b…
Published on 3 months ago
Captain Charles Plumb, U.S. Navy, Vietnam, POW
Charlie Plumb ended up in the U.S. Navy because money was tight for his family and it was a big economic relief when he was recommended and accepted at the U.S. Naval Academy. Upon commissioning from…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Kathleen Faircloth, Gold Star Mother of USMC LCpl. Bradley Faircloth
Kathleen Faircloth received the news that no parent wants to get. In late November 2004, she learned that her son, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Bradley Faircloth, was killed during the Second Bat…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
1LT Doug Greenlaw, U.S. Army, Vietnam, Silver Star
Doug Greenlaw sees his life as a series of "lightning strikes." He was literally struck by lightning when he was 13 years old, thankfully making an immediate recovery. He later left Indiana Universit…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
S/Sgt Melvin Hurwitz, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Melvin Hurwirz was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Within just a few years, all four boys in his family were at war, each in a different branch of the servic…
Published on 4 months ago