Medal of Honor
Valor Friday
Family duties have me away from the keyboard more than normal as of late. Therefore I have to phone in this week’s Valor Friday post. I’ve stumbled across an article that does General Gillespie as much justice as I could do myself. Gillespie earned the Medal of Honor for heroics in carrying dispatches through heavy […]
Medals of Honor for soldiers who perpetrated Wounded Knee massacre may be rescinded
The usual suspects are once again pressing with revising correcting history. Army Times has the story; Lawmakers took a step last week towards taking back the nation’s highest award for valor from Army troops who perpetrated one of the most infamous Native American massacres in U.S. history. The legislation to revoke the medals passed the […]
Valor Friday
I’ve been dreading having to write this article, but the time in nigh. Only a single recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War II was still alive as I wrote this. In the time from when I started to finishing the first draft, he unfortunately passed away. Here’s his story. Born 2 October […]
Last WWII MOH Awardee Passes
Corporal Hershel “Woody” Williams The in-box is filled with the sad news that the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient has died. Marine Corporal “Woody” Williams was awarded the CMH during the Battle of Iwo Jima for displaying “valiant devotion to duty.” It was presented to him by President Harry Truman. Born […]
Four Vietnam Veterans to receive Medals of Honor
News broke yesterday that four men are set to receive the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War. Of the four, one award will be posthumous. The other three are set to attend a White House ceremony on 5 July to get their medals from President Biden. From Army Times; President Joe Biden […]
Future US Navy ship to be named after first Filipino in Navy to receive Medal of Honor
Word is another warship is going to be named after an actual hero. That’s the good news. Great news actually. An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (yet to be laid down) will bear the name of Telesforo Trinidad, a US Navy petty officer of Filipino birth who received the Medal of Honor for peacetime valor (common in […]
Sergeant Major Canley, MoH recipient, dies aged 84
After battling cancer for 10 years, retired US Marine Corps Sergeant Major John Canley has passed away. Canley received the Medal of Honor in 2018, fifty years after his heroics in 1968 Vietnam, for which he originally received the Navy Cross. Last year, the Navy named a new Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship after him. […]
Valor Friday
The Second Battle of Vailele is a largely forgotten battle in the largely forgotten Second Samoan Civil War. The war occurred in 1898-1899 when Great Britain and the US fought Germany over control of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific. The result of the conflict saw the US being given control over the eastern […]
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