Army Lt. Col. Harold Fritz was mere weeks away from leaving the Vietnam War unscathed and heading home to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, until he found himself amid a bloody firefight that would change his ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the early 1960s, Kona native Rodney Yano left high school early, motivated to serve in the U.S. Army. The U.S. sent its first troops to Vietnam in 1965. Yano was already ...
The Battleship New Jersey hosted its annual Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday to honor our men and women in uniform. On board, Medal of Honor recipient and retired Col. Harvey Barnum took center stage to ...
Dwight Hal Johnson received the nation’s highest military honor in 1968. Three years later, he was killed during an attempted robbery at age 23 Matthew F. Delmont - Author, Until the Last Gun Is ...