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Cpl Henry K Hart

For excellent service in the line of his profession while serving with a Marine artillery battalion in KOREA on 7 April 1951. Corporal HART, serving as a radio operator in an artillery forward observer team, displayed outstanding skill, courage, and confidence in the...

PVT Wayne Dalton

Healing Through Arts – Profile Wayne Dalton Private, USMC 1967-1969 – Vietnam I sat for 6 hours getting to know this United States Marine, Wayne Dalton, and it wasn’t long enough. We laughed, we shed tears, and I fully felt the struggles that he has endured. The...

Sgt Joseph F. Biber

[June 29th] would have been Joe Biber’s 73rd Birthday. A 1964 graduate of Buchser, Joe was best known as a nationally ranked miler on the track team. After a year of junior college Joe enlisted in the Marine Corps and eventually became a member of Marine Force Recon....

NYPD Detective Luis Alvarez

[Last] month, retired New York police detective Luis Alvarez delivered a heartbreaking plea to Congress to extend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which provides financial assistance to first responders who had developed illnesses after responding to the...

PVT John Joseph Kelly

On October 3, 1918, Kelly ran through an artillery barrage, took out a German machinegun nest, and captured eight prisoners single-handed. Both the Army and the Marine Corps nominated him for their respective Medals of Honor, and both were approved, so he received...

Navajo Code Talker William Tully Brown

  On Wednesday, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer signed a proclamation ordering all flags on the Navajo Nation to be flown at half-staff on June 6, [2019] in honor and remembrance of Navajo Code Talker William Tully Brown, who passed...