At the annual meeting of the Fairmount Cemetery Association in May 1939, Bob Haseltine Jr. was appointed as the official caretaker. Nine years later, he was buried in the back row.

Add these Memorial Day movies—blockbusters about battles and the brave men and women who fought them—to your streaming list ...

Inside the Gold Star Families Memorial Auditorium ... and I am thankful,” said Hartford’s Kendrick Drakes, an army combat medic who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. The “Welcome Home ...

Gold lettering on two ... It includes her combat boots and a helmet, bearing a heart — the symbol of the 502nd infantry regiment. An Army combat medic, Jessica was killed while traveling with ...

The new badges will share much of the same design as their combat counterparts but will have a gold wreath -- both ... apart from the rest of the Army. The Expert Medical Badge was created in ...

He shared that the badge will signify that a soldier has received both a combat award (CIB) and an expert badge (EIB) for their military occupational specialty (MOS). An equivalent one was also ...

of the Army ... Combat Infantryman Badge, the Master Combat Medical Badge and the Master Combat Action Badge. They will look like existing combat badges, except the wreath depicted on them will be ...

A distinct feature of the new badge is a gold wreath ... non-infantry soldiers. The Army plans to award the Master Combat Infantryman Badge, the Master Combat Medical Badge and the Master Combat ...

Weimer said during the Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington, D.C. The new Master Combat Badge will mirror the existing combat badges, except the wreath will be gold rather than ...

"Dustoff inbound" was the message crackling over the radio that troops wounded in Vietnam most wanted to hear. The message using the "Dustoff" call sign meant that an unarmed UH-1 "Huey ...

The Colorado Springs resident has been elite for nearly a decade and now she finally has a gold medal after consecutive ... The Colorado Springs resident and Army combat medic is coming home ...