Honoring Heroes on Memorial Day (4)

Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure ~Abraham Lincoln   Roy P. Benavidez Medal of Honor Winner  Staff Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez United States Army distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions on 2 May, 1968 while assigned to Detachment B56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), [...]

Honoring Heroes On Memorial Day (3)

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth… ~Thomas Moore World War II Navy Medic Fred Lester Medal of Honor Winer While serving as a Medical Corpsman with an Assault Rifle Platoon, during action against enemy Japanese forces on Okinawa Shima in the Ryukyu Chain, 8 June 1945. Medic [...]