Medal of Honor
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Valor Friday
Part three on my exploration of Congressmen of valor. Thomas Wilson Bradley Thomas Bradley, an Englishman by birth, immigrated to the US when he was a small child. He came to the country with his mother Mary Wilson and the James Roberts family, just before his fifth birthday, aboard the ship Fidelia. Initially living in […]
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