Decorated Hero - Congressional Medal of Honor for action in September 1950. Received Battle Commission during service with 6th Infantry in Pacific Theater of Operation from New Guenia to the Phillipans. First marriage to Billy Jo Hosler and divorced in later days of WWII. Brother of Ivan Henry a ...

For a long time there were four little girls in the family. My mother had two girls and her brother had two girls. One day, surprise! A little boy showed up. This little boy named Eugene Henry Eli Alex. The family loved him and of course why wouldn’t anyone....the only boy. Spoiled of cour...

Congressional Medal of Honor
Awarded Posthumously
FRANCIS C. FLAHERTY
Rank and organization: Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve.
Place and date: During the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941.
Born: 15 March 1919, Charlotte, Mich...

Dillon was a happy child he was sensitive to the people around him he had a lot of compassion toward people and also animals Dillon was always strong and his own person even though he fit into everywhere he always stood up for anybody that needed it When he tested for the army he scored very high...

“I’ll carry this flag to the grave if I must ‘cause it’s the flag that I love and a flag that I trust.” Hero Stars Honors Our American Hero LCpl Travis Nelson US Marine Hometown: Pace, Florida Travis Nelson attended Pace High School. He was in Navy Junior ROTC as well as the Young Marines of Pens...

SGT Thomas G Wright
Joined the Army National Guard in 1999
He was 30 years old and devoted his life to his family and the military

USS Arizona Whale Boat Team Standing left to right:
Lawrence J. Griffin, Herbert A. Dreesbach, Marvin A. Hughes, John McRay Baker, Eugene Brickley, Gordon E. Shive, and Burnis L. Bond.

Kneeling left to right:
Francis J. Pedrotti, Robert C. Erskine, Robert W. Dunnam, Donald E...

To my son...my HERO, I love you more then you will have ever known. The last 3 years have been the worst years of my life but I have also grown as a person, with your death. Life has a purpose now. To live the best I can until we finally see each other again. I know you are looking down on Dad, ...

Cpl Michael Grubisish was a Marine in Baker Bandits (B-1-5) Marines in Korea. After Chosin, the Marines changed strategy to send out squad -sized patrols to search for guerrillas. On January 31, 1951, Sergeant Yesenko and his squad-sized patrol set out on patrol but were somehow taken prisoners b...