Category Archives: Heroes

Funeral services for Betty Ford set for next week

By doris | Published: July 11, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com PALM SPRINGS — Funeral services for former first lady Betty Ford will begin Tuesday in Palm Springs and end with her burial in Grand Rapids, Mich., representatives of the Ford family said. Ford, wife of the late former President Gerald R. Ford, died Friday at age 93. A spokesman for the [...]

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Libya bombing called successful; endgame unclear

By doris | Published: March 20, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The U.S. on Sunday claimed initial success two days into an assault on Libya that included some of the heaviest firepower in the American arsenal — long-range bombers designed for the Cold War — but American officials said Sunday it was too early to define the international military campaign’s [...]

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Last U.S. WWI vet’s daughter urges Capitol honor

By doris | Published: March 6, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com Washington (CNN) — The last American veteran of World War I to die should lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol, his daughter said after lawmakers appeared to block the suggestion. “While Papa was still living, it was suggested that he lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol as [...]

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9/11 responders’ $4.2B aid package called miracle

By doris | Published: December 23, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK – It was called a “Christmas miracle,” but a last-minute compromise by Congress will provide a smaller aid package than originally envisioned to help victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the responders sickened as they worked in its smoldering ruins. The measure passed [...]

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Veteran’s family denied WH tour because of shorts

By doris | Published: October 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SPOKANE, Wash. — The White House apologized Thursday for turning the family of a Medal of Honor recipient away from an exclusive tour last week because the late veteran’s 10-year-old grandson was wearing shorts. Vernon Baker, the last surviving black Medal of Honor winner from World War II, was buried Friday [...]

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At last, hero of ongoing war is alive to receive Medal of Honor

By doris | Published: September 12, 2010

Full Story at At last CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Medals of Honor have been rare since the end of the Vietnam war. And not one of the recipients from the Somalia, Iraq or Afghanistan deployments have been alive to have the iconic blue ribbon with the gold star draped around his neck. Until now. The [...]

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7 Special Forces soldiers to get Silver Star for Afghan valor

By doris | Published: August 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN) — It’s been clear for months that the fighting in Afghanistan is more intense than it’s been since the war there started nearly nine years ago. Yet, from the midst of those increasingly violent firefights come some amazing stories of heroism. On Monday, seven soldiers will [...]

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Senator says 6,600 Arlington graves may have been mismanaged

By doris | Published: July 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Mike McLaughlin knew he buried his father, a veteran of World War I, World War II and the Korean War, at Arlington National Cemetery. So when he opened the newspaper recently and saw his father’s tombstone sunk in the bottom of a shallow, muddy stream, he was stunned. [...]

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Obama honors veterans at Arlington cemetery

By doris | Published: November 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com President Barack Obama carried out the traditional Veterans Day role Wednesday, then made a surprise visit to a part of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, walking among the grave sites and talking to mourners. In his brief speech after a wreath-laying at the Tomb of [...]

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High court to decide if war memorial violates Constitution

By doris | Published: October 6, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com And if you don’t look too closely, you’re likely to zip right past the focus of a hotly contested Supreme Court battle. A federal judge has ordered the Mojave Cross, a war memorial erected by a veterans group 75 years ago, to be covered. It’s boxed in plywood. The issue is [...]

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Commentary: Acts of kindness are the way to mark 9/11

By doris | Published: September 11, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW YORK (CNN) — The upcoming eighth anniversary of the attacks of September 11 raises a compelling question for millions of Americans: How should we best observe this uniquely tragic day in our nation’s history? Surely, it should not be a holiday. This is no time for days off from work [...]

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Unsung heroes of World War II finally get their due

By doris | Published: May 24, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com “[Charles] Lindbergh was flying across the Atlantic, and a lot of other people were flying air races and things like that. It was very romantic,” she said. Flight was still relatively new in the 1920s and 1930s, and female pilots were few. But Tedeschi was determined. In 1941, she found a [...]

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