Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...

Members of a select group of American war heroes will spend the week in Birmingham for the 2027 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention. Birmingham will host the convention September 13 ...

“It’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better because everyone who gets the ...

He was later buried in Gladewater. A few months after his death, the army awarded Watkins the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service above and beyond the call of duty. President Harry ...

Suffering two broken legs and heavy bleeding, Capers continued fighting and directed his team in the counterattack.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Joe Barna holds a picture of Jackie Kilmer, a Corpsman who Barna says saved his life during the ...

The Henrietta Lacks Congressional Gold Medal Act, introduced by Maryland Rep. Kweisi Mfume and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, would honor Lacks for her contribution to life-saving research, even though ...

Photo: Getty Images Memorial Day began in the mid-1800s as a way to honor the people who died in the American Civil War. The ...

ABERDEEN – During the Vietnam War, roughly 3,000 medical evacuation helicopter pilots, co-pilots, crew chiefs and medics helped save more than 900,000 lives through more than 475,000 missions.

He will get everything his old home town, Washington has to give from the congressional medal of honor on up and down. President Coolidge is expected to greet him though not as the French ...