President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to four Vietnam veterans: Staff Sergeant Edward Kaneshiro, Specialist Dwight Birdwell, Specialist Dennis Fujii, and retired Major John Duffy. They all ...

From the Revolutionary War to World War II, Black American soldiers have undergone centuries of having to repeatedly prove their worth with each conflict in which they served. The issuance by ...

No one could blame Jim Oien for tearing up Tuesday as U.S. Rep. Steve King awarded to him the four medals he earned during his 1967-68 tour in Vietnam. Oien said his emotions -- likely heightened by ...

The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Plains Twp. is currently displaying the military medals of a late Vietnam veteran from Wilkes-Barre, including his Purple Heart. U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8, ...

The state Division of Military and Naval Affairs announced it is now issuing Korean War and Vietnam War commemorative medals approved by the legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2022. According to a ...

WASHINGTON — One soldier from North Carolina, shielding a wounded comrade he'd pulled from a downed helicopter in Vietnam, suffered 20 bullet wounds and died saving him. Another U.S. soldier from Los ...

CHICAGO -- For more than a decade, Harold Walker's Purple Heart Medal was lost. The Vietnam War veteran kept the medal in a safe deposit box, but then his bank closed. And when the new bank couldn't ...

LATHAM, N.Y. - New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Lauren Hicks turned her love for art into state commemorative medals designed to honor New Yorkers’ service in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Hicks ...

Tyler McAlpine, Veteran Constituent Advocate, Office of former U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, presents military medals to William Klaips, Wilkes-Barre VA, Assistant Director. WILKES-BARRE — The ...