Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Michael Mendenhall, who served as a hospital corpsman assigned with Marines from 1997-2005.
Baseball legend Bob Feller was one of the first professional athletes to enlist in the military for service during World War II. He would go on to break numerous baseball records both before and after his time in the service.
Charles E. Baker served in the Marine Corps during World War II from 1944 to 1946 and fought in Iwo Jima.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Alexander Bonnyman Jr. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart.
Pfc. Arnold Harrison, a Detroit teenager who went missing in action in 1943 during the Battle of Tarawa in World War II, is finally home, near his family.
Navy Veteran Don Ellis Briggs loved driving vehicles during his younger years and became his Chaplain’s personal assistant.
Adam Lahut was drafted into military service in March of 1941 after attending Troy public schools in New York. He attended basic training in Fort Eustis, Virginia, and received orders to Hawaii to serve in the Pacific.
Like many other men and women of his generation, Paul A. Wieser volunteered to serve his country at a young age.
On the Saturday before Thanksgiving 1943, Cpl. Roger K. Nielson […]