Tag: medal of honor

U.S. Army Ranger SFC Petry remembers saving his fellow Rangers while clearing a courtyard in Afghanistan in 2008.

Santiago Erevia, a Vietnam veteran who had been denied the nation’s highest military honor for 45 years because he was Hispanic, died in San Antonio on Tuesday. He was 69. The New York Times reported that Erevia, who single-handedly destroyed four enemy bunkers during a search and clear mission near Tam Ky, South Vietnam on May 21, 1969, died […]

A 1906 Medal of Honor recipient is finally receiving full military honors Friday at a cemetery in Washington state decades after he was buried without fanfare. Emil Fredreksen was one of 11 men awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions aboard the gunboat USS Bennington in San Diego in 1905. But after his death […]

National Congressional Medal of Honor Day on Friday, March 25, is a special memorial day when recipients of the Medal of Honor gather each year at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate their fallen brethren. Among those warriors who have received our nation’s highest award for valor in combat is […]

Navy SEAL Edward Byers sits down for an interview after receiving his Medal of Honor.

In the darkness of a single-room building in Afghanistan, Navy Senior Chief Edward C. Byers Jr. had little time to react: A fellow Navy SEAL had just been shot in the head during a hostage rescue mission, and it wasn’t clear who else in the room wanted to kill the American team. Byers burst in anyway, […]

Edward Byers is the sixth Navy SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor.

In this week’s News Roundup, a Marine gets thrown out of a Clinton rally for Benghazi questions, some slick new body armor, and VA officials finally get the boot.

In this week’s News Roundup, we’re not letting go of VA corruption, our soldiers are getting fatter, and the New York Times reveals their racism. Plus, we toss in a dose of naked Russians and porn-star escorts.

Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Edward Byers will be the first sailor in a decade to receive the Medal of Honor. He is receiving the Medal of Honor for a mission to rescue an American civilian hostage in Afghanistan in 2012.

One of America’s greatest heroes is charging the commander in chief with deliberate sabotage of the nation’s armed forces. The serious accusation leveled against Barack Obama comes from retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, who told WND bluntly, “Obama loathes the military.” “His goal is to reduce the […]

In an ongoing effort to honor fallen Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a member of Congress has requested that the current Commandant of the Marine Corps re-submit a nomination for the Medal of Honor. In Iraq 2004, Peralta was shot in the head during a room clearance right before a frag grenade was tossed in by […]