Family and staff gathered at the VA to honor Medal of Honor recipient Thomas E. Creek on the anniversary of his Vietnam War sacrifice.

Hill went on to survive the war and on April 22, 1919, at Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, he stood before Gen. Pershing to receive the Medal of Honor.

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, ...

Hundreds of Pulaski Street School students watched the debut documentary about Riverhead’s only Medal of Honor recipient, Pfc. Garfield Langhorn, at The Suffolk theater on Jan. 28 (Ana Borruto photo).

Sixth grade students at Pulaski Street Intermediate School experienced the first-ever showing of a documentary film about Riverhead Medal of Honor recipient Garfield M. Langhorn Jr. Wednesday morning ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Megha Majumdar, one of this year’s winners of medals presented by the American Library Association, doesn’t only visit libraries for the reading. There’s the jigsaw puzzle ...

John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature: “All the Blues in the Sky,” written by Renée Watson and published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books, an imprint of ...

On January 26, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, ...

Vietnam’s new Politburo has been revealed as the Communist Party Congress wrapped up early in Hanoi, with To Lam winning a full five-year term as party chief, seemingly with minimal backroom wrangling ...

To Lam, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, will also become president of the nation. His new stature comes with new risks. By Damien Cave and Tung Ngo Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam Vietnam’s ...

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 ...

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 ...