As of March 2025, Howard is the only soldier among the 3,547 Medal of Honor recipients to be nominated for the United States ... during the Vietnam War, but the course of his military career ...

He had enlisted in the Air Force in 1953, but left to attend the U.S. Military ... 268 Medal of Honor recipients of the Vietnam War. He spent the rest of his 30-plus-year career in the Army ...

Truman of Executive Order No. 9981 finally integrated the United States Army ... Vietnam, however, that a Black soldier, Riley Pitts, earned both an officer’s commission and the Medal of ...

Karl Smith, a Muskegon High School grad, enlisted for the military when he was 17 years old and still in school. On Wednesday ...

A new museum devoted to telling the stories of those who have received the nation’s highest military honor is opening this ...

NEPTUNE -- Many Vietnam veterans returning home from the war remember getting spit on, with no parade no hero's welcome.