Despite his injuries, Levitow dragged the burning fuse to an open door and dropped it out of the plane seconds before it ignited. He saved the aircraft and crew, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. That gunship and the soldiers it was supporting survived that day because of th...
The communications director for the Alabama senator said the report of separation indicated Tuberville was part of the 746th Tank Battalion and his date of arrival in theater is listed as June 6, 1944. The Post, however, did confirm that Tuberville's father, was awarded a Purple Heart. ...
As someone who spent six years taking calls on-air from people who will never fully recover from the devastating losses they experienced during and after the 2008 crisis, and from pensioners who watched their benefits get cut and wondered how all the financial planning they did around that numbe...
cynical move for Dems to boost the most radical Republicans—and it paid off. The most effective (i.e.: dangerous) Republican candidate is someone reasonable like Virginia governor
1, 2009. He was in the 19th Infan- try Regiment in the Philippines and Japan; awarded the Bronze Star. His first wife Edmee Boddeker died Jan. 1967; in 1976, he moved to Leadville, CO where he married. Mrs. Louise Barth, Colorado Springs, CO. Maynard A. Birkholz, 87, of Omro,...
Placing a coin on headstones of a service member or veteran is a show of respect and honor, as well as letting the deceased service member’s family know someone was there, but the denomination of the coins each has a distinct and significant meaning. ...
Some time around 1650BC, according to a fresco which has survived since the Bronze Age, man began using gloves. Centuries later boxing became the big stakes, big money sport that it is today. And, oh yes, there is still a lot of blood....