Pete Celentano of Jackson and Michael Vaccaro of Middletown braved danger and earned medals in Vietnam, but lost paperwork ...

Leonard F Pryor's medals "were passed to me a few years ago, as his namesake," his great-grandson Leonard Lawson told Newsweek.

The Medal of Honor is the United States' highest award for military valor in action. This month, we'll be honoring a ...

In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was winding down and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington came up with a way to sway any thoughts of rebellion. Congress was running out of ...

When Cai was 27, he was deployed to Afghanistan for a six-month tour, serving in the Multinational Coalition Force. At the ...

Both men earned medals for their service in the Vietnam War, but never received them until now. Pete Celentano was in a foxhole with three other U.S. Army soldiers in northern Vietnam in 1967 when ...

The Citadel hosting special parade Friday to honor Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Hugh Reavis Nelson Jr., the first full-on ...

Soldiers had to do something unusually heroic or perform some act that was essential to the success of the Continental Army. Both the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart came from the Badge of ...

World War II Navy seaman Walter Marasco of Riggles Gap was never “a gung-ho military type,” according to Marasco’s son, Brian ...