I want the Founding Fathers to get their due; William Prescott, hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he of “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!’ fame, was born on this due. Prescott was a great American whom we should honor and remember!

Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Justice Chambers, commanding 3d Battalion, 25th Marines, earned the Medal of Honor for his heroic leadership on the first day of Imo Jima,  when, despite horrendous casualties, he led his battalion in securing the high ground around the landing beaches. Honor and remember him! Chambers was wounded by machine gun fire on February 23 and medically … Read More

Sergeant Samuel Cole earned the Medal of Honor for his leadership on Iwo Jima, when he single-handedly took out two Japanese gun emplacements before being killed by Japanese grenades.  A bugler, Cole repeatedly asked to be assigned as a machine-gunner, fighting in Guadalcanal, Tinian and Saipan.  The USS Cole, which was damaged by Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen in October … Read More

Daniel Fernandez earned the Medal of Honor posthumously in 1966, when he jumped on a Viet Cong grenade that had landed in the middle of his patrol. Honor and remember him!  Part of the 25th Infantry Division, Fernandez was from Albuquerque, New Mexico and is buried in Santa Fe. 

Owen Hammerberg earned the Medal of Honor posthumously as a Navy diver at Pearl Harbor for saving the lives of two fellow divers. Honor and remember him! From Daggett, Michigan, Hammerberg served aboard the USS Idaho and Advent before becoming a diver. He saved two others divers in pitch black water during a salvage operation, who had been trapped by … Read More

The Sam Adams of the south was born on this day, Christopher Gasden, the man who created the “Don’t-Tread-On-me” flag. 

Terrence Graves received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic leadership in combat despite being badly wounded. While leading a reconnaissance patrol in Vietnam, Graves’ platoon was ambushed by the North Vietnamese. Graves called in air support and directed artillery and led his men out of danger. Though wounded himself, he called in helos and was the last man … Read More

Americans ought to know the tale of Nathan Gordon, who rescued fifteen downed airmen from the Pacific Ocean, landing four separate times in the ocean in his PBY-Catalina while under Japanese fire, and later earning the Medal of Honor for his courage. 

Tell your kids the story of “Lucky” Fluckey, the top submarine commander of World War II who earned the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses. Fluckey and his crews sank the most Japanese shipping tonnage elf the War.   Born in Washington, DC, Fluckey graduated from the Naval Academy in 1935, served aboard surface ships and then went to … Read More

A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard. Honor and remember them all!