Emotional Reunion of a Concentration Camp Survivor and One of His Liberators The first time Joshua Kaufman met Daniel Gillespie was April 29, 1945, when American liberators marched into the notorious DDachau concentration camp 12 miles outside Munich,...
Since U.S. Army Private Lori Ann Piestewa died in a Humvee ambush in Iraq in 2003, her name—and her legacy—have spread throughout the three mesas of Hopi land in northeastern Arizona. The first American Indian woman to die serving the U.S. Armed Forces, in the first...
Today we want to honor Dovey Johnson Roundtree, a trailblazing lawyer, minister, advocate and inaugural member of the WAAC. She broke barriers, reaching the rank of Captain and recruited so many black women she helped set the groundwork for desegregation in the...
JD Hennig joined at 22 , leaving a wife and baby. He wanted to make his father & country proud. He came home with honor having been awarded Army Commendation Medal by Gen. Westmoreland due to consequences of a visit to Nam by President Nixon, but he was spat upon...
I arrived home one day after my classes at Edgewood High School in San Antonio, TX were over and it was then that the direction of my life changed forever. My mom was crying uncontrollably. There, clinched in her hands was the telegram that my older brother, Sergeant...
