Karl Smith, a Muskegon High School grad, enlisted for the military when he was 17 years old and still in school. On Wednesday, he received military honors.

As of March 2025, Howard is the only soldier among the 3,547 Medal of Honor recipients to be nominated for the United States ... during the Vietnam War, but the course of his military career ...

EGELSTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A Vietnam veteran from Muskegon has his service medals more than 50 years after he left the U.S. Navy. Karl Smith was deployed to Vietnam and served in the Navy ...

A Medal of Honor recipient received a special welcome as he moved into his new long-term care facility in Fort Worth.

By the time he graduated in 1968, the United States ... Medal of Honor for actions he took in 1969 during the Vietnam War. (Nixon Presidential Library) Kerrey returned to Nebraska after leaving ...

Truman of Executive Order No. 9981 finally integrated the United States Army ... including many Medals of Honor and the first commissioned officers. It was not until Vietnam, however, that ...

The National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington is now open to the public. The Medal of Honor is our nation's highest honor ...

March 29th is a fitting choice for a day honoring Vietnam veterans. It was chosen to be observed in perpetuity as March 29, 1973 was the day United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam as the ...

Morris received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions on September 17, 1969, while commanding the Third Company, Third Battalion of the IV Mobile Strike Force near Chi Lang, Vietnam. Then-Staff ...