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An artist painted a mural of Pitts at Pitts Park Oklahoma City, which is named after him, in 2023. His family met KOCO there to talk about his legacy.
The National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington offers patriotic displays of soldiers who performed extraordinary acts of ...
Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...
A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a Silver Star Medal to a Medal of Honor for a recon Marine who fought ...
Army Maj. Gen. Charles C. Rogers is the highest-ranking Black servicemember to receive the Medal of Honor. His actions during the Vietnam War, when he was wounded and came under repeated attack by ...
The page dedicated to Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was indeed deleted, but restored soon afterward. The Pentagon said it had been scrubbed during an "auto removal process." Amid the ...
Biden approves Medal of Honor for Army helicopter pilot who rescued soldiers in Vietnam War The White House says President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor to a Vietnam War-era Army pilot ...
A Department of Defense webpage honoring a Black Army general was temporarily ... A West Virginia native, Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in 1970, according ...
The 173rd Airborne Brigade's legacy was written in blood long before the mountains of Afghanistan or the sands of Iraq. It ...
Far newer than the Buddy Memorial, the Schaefer Oval was originally dedicated in the spring of 1987, mere weeks after the ...
The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, known as the “Six Triple Eight,” has been presented ...