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Don Graves, USMC, World War II, Iwo Jima
Don Graves tried to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps the day after President Franklin Roosevelt declared the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor a day of …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
LCDR Ed Hiner, U.S. Navy SEAL, Iraq, Afghanistan
Ed Hiner had no intention of joining the military until a friend's father forced him to help a military family in need. During that experience, Hiner…
7 months ago
Lieutenant (J.G.) Patrick Zilliacus, U.S. Navy, World War II
Patrick Zilliacus was born in Finland and came to the U.S. when his father became the Finnish military attache in Washington, primarily to procure we…
7 months, 1 week ago
Lt Gen. Marc Sasseville, USAF, Air National Guard, 9/11, Iraq
Ltt Gen. Marc Sasseville was born into an Air Force family and that played a significant role in his decision to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy an…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Andrew Card, Chief of Staff for Pres. George W. Bush, 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Andrew Card served more than five years as White House Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush. Less than eight months into Bush's first term, Al…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Timothy Brown, FDNY, 9/11, South Tower World Trade Center
Timothy Brown was serving as supervisor of field operations in New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's office of emergency management on September 11, 20…
8 months ago
MAJ Christopher Brewer, U.S. Army Special Forces, Colombia, Panama
Christopher Brewer grew up as an Army brat and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1973 because he wanted to be a Ranger. Even though he had never jumped ou…
8 months, 1 week ago
SMSgt. Tom Young, Air National Guard, Iraq, Afghanistan, 'The Mapmaker'
Tom Young grew up on his family's farm in North Carolina. From a young age he was fascinated by his grandfather's stories of being part of a bomber c…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
PFC Hilbert Margol, U.S. Army, World War II, Dachau Liberation
Hilbert Margol was the first of twin boys born to his parents in February 1924. He was nearly finished with high school when the Japanese attacked Pe…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
CPL Walter Stitt, Jr., U.S. Army, World War II, Battle of the Bulge
Walter Stitt, Jr. was a senior in high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He and his friends all assumed they'd be d…
8 months, 4 weeks ago