When he walked into a San Francisco barbershop after the war, he was told by the owner, “We don’t serve Japs here.” The owner of the barbershop obviously didn’t know who the one-armed ...
A Green Beret was killed in combat Monday in Afghanistan. The Pentagon identified the soldier as 41-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Griffin out of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group at ...
“Michael Travis Osorio, 20 of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho passed away on April 23, 2019 in Iraq serving his country. Michael was born to David and Jennifer Osorio on November 21, 1998. He ...
Colonel Marilyn D. Wills’ military career began in 1983 when she was identified as a distinguished military graduate and commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Army upon graduating from ...
Michele graduated from St Luke’s School of Nursing in MA in 1969, received her RN license and went to TX for basic training. Ft. Polk, LA was her first assignment. After 3 months she volunteered ...
I spent my early days on a cotton farm in West Texas and my teen years in El Paso. After graduating from college and being miserable as a teacher, I applied for and received a direct commission ...
In October 1969, Mary enlisted in the Army as a WAC (Women’s Army Corps). At enlistment, Mary was already a mother of two children, but ready to serve her country. She promptly was deployed to ...
The first known woman to impersonate a man in the U.S. Army, Deborah served as a soldier during the American Revolution. Born in Plympton, Massachusetts on December 17, 1760 to Jonathan and ...
William Graham Clarke was born in August 1873 and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1885 from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. He became a citizen of the United States of America ...
It was the GI Bill that sold her parents on joining the Army because she was not yet 21 years old and still needed her parents’ signatures for her to enlist. Her military career started ...
