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Valor Friday

| July 14, 2023 | 6 Comments
Valor Friday

During the Korean War, only 146 Medals of Honor were awarded. Of those, 103 were were posthumous. Only seven men of the US Navy earned the honor. Two recipients were officers, both aviators, and five were hospital corpsmen. One two Navy recipients lived to receive their awards. One was Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Thomas Hudner, whom […]

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Valor Friday

| June 16, 2023 | 17 Comments
Valor Friday

This week I want to highlight the nine US Army installations that are being renamed this year. The latest was renamed just this week for the above pictured man. Fort Polk, Louisiana is now henceforth known as Fort Johnson, after Medal of Honor recipient William Henry “Black Death” Johnson of the legendary Harlem Hellfighters. We […]

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Valor Friday

| May 26, 2023 | 15 Comments
Valor Friday

Our own King of Battle pointed out that Luther Story, who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for gallantry in action during the Korean War is about to be returned home and finally, properly laid to rest. We talked about Corporal Story back at the beginning of the month when it was announced his remains […]

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Valor Friday

| April 7, 2023 | 8 Comments
Valor Friday

The US Medal of Honor has been awarded more than 3,500 times. A full 40% of the awards were made for actions during the Civil War, when the medal was the highest (and largely only) award available for combat bravery. Longtime readers of mine will know that the US Navy Medal of Honor, which was […]

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Today is National Medal of Honor Day – Congressional Medal of Honor Society

| March 25, 2023 | 3 Comments
Today is National Medal of Honor Day – Congressional Medal of Honor Society

On National Medal of Honor Day, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society—the membership organization of the 66 living Medal of Honor recipients—took the opportunity to shine the spotlight on others—both military and civilian—rather than themselves.   Wreath Laying Each year, Medal of Honor recipients lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in […]

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Valor Friday

| March 10, 2023 | 8 Comments
Valor Friday

Last week I talked about three men who went down fighting, and left a pile of enemy corpses surrounding their own bodies. Just a few months before their valiant last stand on Saipan in the Pacific Theater, another man did the exact same thing in the European Theater. Truman Olson was born in 1917 in […]

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Valor Friday

| March 3, 2023 | 14 Comments
Valor Friday

Many of the stories I have the honor of writing about seem so absolutely incredible that they stretch the bonds of credulity. These are some of my favorites to research, because it’s amazing to me that these stories are true. Today’s subject is another of those incredible men whose tale would make the most spectacular […]

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Valor Friday

| February 10, 2023 | 4 Comments
Valor Friday

Richmond Pearson Hobson Richmond Hobson was born in Alabama in 1870. He was the nephew and namesake of Congressman Richmond Pearson, nephew of North Carolina Governor Daniel Gould Fowle, and grandson of Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Richmond Mumford Pearson (his other namesake). Hobson attended the US Naval Academy. At Annapolis, he […]

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