Medal of Honor Monday: Salvatore Giunta’s Korengal Valley Stand
Giunta’s story is what valor looks like when it is not polished for the cameras, because in the Korengal he moved into fire again and again for one reason only: to get his people home.
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Medal of Honor Monday: Captain Lance P. Sijan’s Final Flight and the Standard He Set for the Rest of Us
He crawled through the jungle on willpower alone, proving that character can outlast bone, muscle, and even the certainty of death.
Medal of Honor Monday: Mervyn S. Bennion – From Utah Farmlands to Pearl Harbor
On that brutal Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, Captain Mervyn Bennion stayed on the burning bridge of West Virginia with his guts torn open, still fighting for his ship and his men long after any reasonable man would have let go.
Medal of Honor Monday: Army Sgt. Nicky Bacon – A Squad Leader Takes Charge
From a cotton field in Arkansas to a tank deck in Vietnam, Nicky Bacon showed how a squad leader with a forged signature and a spine of steel can hold a fight, save his people, and keep serving long after the shooting stops.
Medal of Honor Monday: Alonzo Hereford Cushing, The Lieutenant Who Refused to Leave Cemetery Ridge
A young lieutenant on Cemetery Ridge refused to fall back even as his own body failed him, choosing to stand by his guns and hurl steel into the teeth of Pickett’s Charge until the last breath left his lungs.
Medal of Honor Monday: Michael P. Murphy – Protector, SEAL, Legend
He stepped into the open, phone in hand and grit in his teeth, trading the last of his cover for a handful of breaths for his teammates — the kind of small, brutal choice that carves a quiet legend out of an ordinary life.
Medal of Honor Monday: Command Sergeant Major Matthew O. Williams – A Green Beret’s Relentless Courage
He didn’t chase glory; he ran toward gunfire because that’s where his brothers were, and that’s where duty called.
Medal of Honor Monday: Capt. Francis B. Wai – From UCLA Athlete to Battlefield Leader
From Waikiki surf to Red Beach fire, Francis Brown Wai fused Chinese Hawaiian roots, Punahou grit, and UCLA discipline into a calm, relentless charge that broke the deadlock on Leyte.
Medal of Honor Monday: American Hero Frank Luke, Jr., “Balloon Buster”
In seventeen days of September 1918, Frank Luke burned a path across the Meuse, torching hydrogen dragons under flak and fighters, dropping three more in flames on his last mission, and dying with a .45 in his hand.
Medal of Honor Monday: Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun
When the line broke at Unsan, Father Emil Kapaun moved toward the fire, pulled the wounded to life, and showed men that leadership starts at the point of impact.
“He Looked Death in the Face” Remembering Navy SEAL Michael A. Monsoor
On Saint Michael’s Day in Ramadi, Mike Monsoor chose the blast so his brothers could breathe, proof that character is built in quiet reps long before history calls your name.
Medal of Honor Monday: SSG Drew Dix, Fifth Special Forces Group (Airborne)
When Chau Phu turned into a knife fight in a phone booth, Drew Dix grabbed whoever would move, keyed his radio, and bulldozed through Tet’s chaos—rescuing civilians, stacking prisoners, and proving leadership starts with stepping into the gunfire.
