Tag: Heroism

Then-Capt. Doug Zembiec gives orders to his men over a radio prior to leaving their secured compound for a short patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (AP/U.S. Marine Corps. via The Albuquerque Journal, Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

Beltway Confidential

Heroic Marine, nicknamed ‘Lion of Fallujah,’ finally honored for CIA service

Blake Seitz · July 16, 2014 5:05 pm

Louis Zamperini gestures during a news conference Friday May 9, 2014 in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Memorial Day with an ‘Unbroken’ American hero

Cal Thomas · July 3, 2014 9:00 pm

This June 6, 1944, file photo shows American soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force securing a beachhead during initial landing operations at Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. From the first sketchy German radio broadcast to the distribution of images filmed in color, it has taken decades for the full story of the D-Day invasion to come out. As world leaders and veterans prepare to mark the 70th anniversary of the invasion this week, multiple Twitter hashtags are following the ceremonies minute by minute. At the time, the reporting, filming and taking of photos was neither easy nor straightforward. (AP Photo/Weston Haynes, File)

D-Day narrative started early, and still evolves

Jamey Keaten · June 4, 2014 9:07 am

ADVANCE FOR STORY SLUGGED D-DAY FRENCH GI BY LORI HINNANT FOR RELEASE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014. In this photo dated July 1944 and provided by Dargols' family shows Bernard Dargols posing next to a Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep in Normandy, France. When the young Frenchman left Paris at age 18, the plan was to go to New York for a year and learn the sewing machine trade. Six years later, Bernard Dargols found himself crossing the English Channel in a U.S. Army uniform, sloshing ashore at Omaha Beach to a homeland that had stripped his Jewish family of their rights and sent some to die in concentration camps. This French GI, now in his 90s, recounts to AP his remarkable story. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Bernard Dargols' family)

Frenchman joined US D-Day forces to free homeland

Lori Hinnant · May 28, 2014 3:02 pm

New York Civil War hero is subject of museum talk

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 7:03 am

President Barack Obama speaks at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 26, 2014. Obama, who returned just hours earlier from a surprise visit with U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, paid tribute to those lost in battle there and elsewhere over history as he commemorated Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama leads country in celebrating Memorial Day

Pete Yost · May 26, 2014 10:53 pm

Ceremony honors Colonial soldiers killed in 1755

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 6:28 pm

Major Gen. Myles L. Deering, left, adjutant general of the Oklahoma National Guard, looks on as Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, right, and Jane Horton, center, the widow of Spc. Christopher Horton, look over the Oklahoma Gold Star Medal awarded to Horton on appreciation day for the Oklahoma National Guard's 45th Infantry Division, in the Oklahoma Legislature. The Gold Star Medal is an award created by the Legislature to honor Oklahoma military members killed in combat. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool)

National Security

On Memorial Day, remember those left behind by the fallen

Jane Horton · May 26, 2014 10:10 am

Name reading to take place on National Mall

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 1:56 pm

Donald Odum, left, junior vice president of the Onslow Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation, and Michael Rooney look over the memorial in Jacksonville, N.C., Friday afternoon, May 23, 2014. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, Maria Sestito)

Obama: US must do more to care for veterans

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 10:08 am

This photo taken May 13, 2014 shows Medically retired Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter speaking to media at the Pentagon. On June 19, 2014, President Barack Obama will award Carpenter the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions while serving as an Automatic Rifleman with Company F, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 1, 1st Marine Division (Forward), I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Marine to get medal of honor for blocking grenade

Lolita Baldor · May 20, 2014 8:26 pm

This photo taken May 13, 2014 shows Medically retired Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter speaking to media at the Pentagon. On June 19, 2014, President Barack Obama will award Carpenter the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions while serving as an Automatic Rifleman with Company F, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 1, 1st Marine Division (Forward), I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama to give Marine veteran Medal of Honor

Nedra Pickler · May 19, 2014 10:30 pm