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These Hometown Hero Banners, part of a project launched by the Chamberlain-Oacoma Area Chamber of Commerce in 2022, honor local service members from every branch of the United States Armed Forces.
Halifax Army veteran Joshua Curtis drowned in Florida on April 24 while trying to free his son and niece from the grip off a riptide in Florida, according to a pair of GoFundMe pages. His son ...
CHAMBERLAIN IS A RENOWNED FIGURE AT AT BOWDOIN IN BRUNSWICK IN MAINE, THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND, EVEN IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, THERE IS A LOT OF ADMIRATION FOR HIM. IRONIC SINCE JOSHUA LAWRENCE ...
On Sunday morning, April 9, 1865, brevetted Major General Joshua ... honor never to lift arms against” the United States ever again. When the great surrender of Lee’s army was over ...
The sister of Medal of Honor recipient Master Sgt. John Chapman, an elite combat controller who died on a mountainside during the Battle of Takur Ghar in Afghanistan, is angered by the way the new ...
Joshua Chambers never knew his great-grandfather ... One of 27 Marines awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II, Justice left a four-generation ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — The National Medal of Honor Museum is set to open its doors ... and he risked his life to save his friend, Sergeant Joshua Brennan, from enemy capture. "I eliminated the ...
There’s thousands of ideas, thousands of hours of work and planning and talking,” said Joshua Schick, director of interpretation at the National Medal of Honor Museum. “It has turned out ...
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain determined that ... of Bowdoin College until 1883 and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1893. He died in 1914 still carrying his Petersburg bullet ...
Joshua L. Chamberlain officially accepted the ... 20th Maine Regiment legendary fame and garnered Chamberlain the Medal of Honor. By 1867, Chamberlain had returned to Brunswick and was elected ...
EXCLUSIVE: A new, bipartisan, bicameral bill would boost pensions for Medal of Honor recipients six-fold. The legislation, reintroduced by Texas Republicans Rep. Troy Nehls and Sen. Ted Cruz and ...
Robb was a white officer in charge of the all-Black 369th Sustainment Brigade, known as the Harlem Hellfighters who was nominated for the Medal of Honor for serving with the unit. A Black soldier ...