Tunnel to Towers, 2022 Citizen Honors Service Honoree
July 20, 2022
Citizen Honors Awards Honoree: Tunnel to Towers Today in Charleston, South Carolina, Medal of Honor Recipient Leroy Petry highlighted the legacy of service that has existed in our country since…
Meet Michael Ahern, 2022 Citizen Honors Service Award Honoree
Citizen Honors Awards Honoree: Michael Ahern In 2019, a nine-year-old boy from Plainville, Connecticut, brought an unusual request to his parents. He asked if he could forgo birthday presents and…
Charles E. Capehart: A Mad Dash at Midnight
July 11, 2022
The Battle of Gettysburg was over. Three days of ferocious fighting had produced more than 50,000 casualties. On July 4, 1863, both sides licked their wounds and Confederate General Robert…
John W. Mostoller: A Commander by Necessity
June 18, 2022
Lynchburg, Virginia, was a major supply and hospital center, and it served as a railroad connection for the Virginia Central Railroad that made up a significant part of the Confederate…
Normandy, June 6, 1944: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. – One of Only Two Generals on the Beach
June 6, 2022
On the morning of June 6, 1944, American, British and Canadian military forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. This would be the beginning of the end for Nazi…
Major General George Gillespie, Jr., Messenger Under Fire and Medal of Honor Designer
May 31, 2022
As part of General U. S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in 1864, the Union army was advancing in a southwest direction toward Robert E. Lee’s army and the Confederate capitol at…
Announcing Our Summer Medal of Honor Character Development Program Sessions!
April 25, 2022
As part of our Medal of Honor Character Development Program, we are proud to provide a variety of resources to help teachers learn about the Medal of Honor and its…
James & Allen Thompson, Literal Brothers in Arms
April 22, 2022
The Civil War was winding down. Lieutenant General Ulysses Grant was winning the battle of attrition, having stretched Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s depleted army nearly to its breaking point.…
Douglas A. Munro, the Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor Recipient
March 31, 2022
By: Kris Cotariu Harper, EdD "When people ask you about the Coast Guard, don’t tell them what we do; tell them the story of Doug Munro and Ray Evans, because…
The Great Locomotive Chase: The First Awarded Medals of Honor
March 25, 2022
In 1862, Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel, commanding Union troops in middle Tennessee, devised a plan to capture Chattanooga, Tennessee, a water and railway junction important to the Confederacy. Mitchel reasoned…