On a recent fall day, Tuttle’s 71-year-old daughter held her father’s heart-shaped medal for the first time after Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs presented it to her during a poignant Oct. 29 ...
It would take decades for recognition to be won. It wasn’t until 1977 that the “Hello Girls” were finally granted veteran status and World War I victory medals when President Jimmy Carter signed the ...
As an Army veteran, I would like to salute and thank all fellow veterans for their service to our country. Veterans Day is a day to recognize, honor, and thank those who served in the ...
At 101-years-old, Chase is one of a dwindling number of living veterans in the city who served in the second world war as a ...
James Peyton tells ABC15 he was injured multiple times in combat - in one incident, he explains he had to remove shrapnel from his own chest and had no other choice.
A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the battlefield in Europe, he thought about that prophecy whenever he had a close call ...
A Port Hawkesbury woman has long imagined a Remembrance Day with her great-uncle's war medals. It will happen this year for ...
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were over 12,000 women acting as nurses within the military. Most of them ...
(WLOX) - A World War II soldier who died during the Normandy Invasion is the ... Steele inherited his father’s possessions in ...
THE last surviving relative of a Guernsey-born First World War hero believes that his story has gone largely untold due to an ...
Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned Tuttle's Purple Heart to his daughter, Carolyn Peckham, during a private ...
This series looks at the 25 new veterans who have been added to the City of Moose Jaw's banner program. The men featured in ...