The White House has approved the Medal of Honor for fallen Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, a Staten Island, New York, native who died in Afghanistan in 2013, while shielding an allied soldier, ...

Merrell Jr., who was the first Staten Islander to receive the Medal of Honor, earned the award for a solo assault on April 18, 1945, near Lohe, Germany, that killed 23 enemy soldiers and saved his ...

Every February, Black History Month shines a light on African Americans whose contributions and experiences shaped the nation. Some of those stories come from battlefields thousands of miles from home ...

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 ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Retired U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Melvin Morris, a Medal of Honor recipient who survived two combat deployments to Vietnam, has lived a lifetime of service. In 2024, Morris ...

In 1999 Smith was posted to the 11th Engineer Battalion, with which he was deployed to Kosovo in May 2001, where he was responsible for daily presence patrols in the town of Gnjilane. In the spring of ...

On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him under arrest for ...

Members of the Professional Firefighters of Idaho submitted nominations to the Idaho Medal of Honor Commission on Monday, ...

In an interview with PEOPLE, he discusses co-parenting with ex-wife Bristol Palin and and how his girls made him the man he is today Every day, he focuses on one main goal, he says: "What would my ...

The Brevard Homeless Coalition estimates roughly 1,000 people are experiencing homelessness across the county. About 8 percent are veterans. Federal judge orders Fulton County Georgia election case ...

"My hope is that they grow up, and they know what a good man looks like," Meyer tells PEOPLE of his kids with ex Bristol Palin Dakota Meyer Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer reenlisted last spring ...