Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War after achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. A Southern slaveholder who opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, …

General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, Jr. GCB (December 31 1880 - October 16 1959) was an American military leader, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall supervised the U.S. Army during the war and was the chief military advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Rutherford B. Hayes is innaugurated as 19th President of the United States

Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 - April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. Tillman was the first professional football player to be killed in combat since the death of Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills, who died in the Vietnam War in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from Specialist to Corporal.

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage.

Kim Sun-il (September 13, 1970 - c. June 22, 2004) was a South Korean translator working in Iraq for Gana General Trading Company, a South Korean company under contract to the United States military. Kim was fluent in Arabic, holding a graduate degree in that language from Seoul's Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in February 2003. He also had degrees in English and theology, and had hoped to become a Christian missionary in the Middle East.

Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American author, editorialist, lecturer and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for neoconservative foreign policy, once describing his own position as support for the use of "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to "The Weekly Standard", …

Francis J. ‘Bing’ West, originally from the Dorchester section of Boston, served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. A true warrior-scholar, West authored an extremely influential study while a Visiting Research Associate at the RAND Corporation 1966 - 1968 entitled: "The Strike Teams: Tactical Performance and Strategic Potential".

Leo K. Thorsness (born February 14, 1932) is a decorated United States Military veteran and retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force. Thorsness was awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in the Vietnam War, for an air engagement on April 19, 1967. He was shot down two weeks later and spent six years in captivity as a prisoner of war.

Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is a journalist, syndicated columnist and member of the editorial board for the "Chicago Tribune". He is an occasional panelist on "The McLaughlin Group", a regular contributor of essays to "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting Service, and an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Sunday".

Staff Sergeant Eric Fidelis Alva (born 1971-04-01) was the first U.S. military service member injured in the Iraq War. He was in charge of 11 marines in a supply unit when, on March 21, 2003, he stepped on a land mine, losing his right leg. He joined the United States Marine Corps in 1990 at the age of 19.

Roy Isao Sano (born 1931) is a retired Japanese-American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984. Sano was born on 18 June 1931 in Brawley, California, of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. Upon the death of their third child, Roy's parents were converted to Christianity. When Roy was eleven, his family was sent to Poston Concentration Camp, and then to Pennsylvania under the sponsorship of a Quaker family, where they worked as farm workers.

Brigadier General Vicente Lim was a World War II general. He was born in Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines, which is also the birthplace of José Rizal, the country's national hero. The first Filipino graduate of the United States Military Academy (Class of 1914) at West Point, General Lim served as a 2nd Lieutenant during World War I. At the war’s end, he returned to the Philippines, …

Linda Foley is president of the Newspaper Guild and vice-president of the Communications Workers of America. She was a reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky before turning to full time work at the "Guild" in 1984. She was elected its secretary-treasurer in 1993 and its president in 1995. She received a bachelor of science in journalism degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1977.

Dick Contino (born January 17, 1930, Fresno, California) is an American singer and accordionist. Contino began performing in various Los Angeles talent shows, and beginning in 1946 received some mainstream attention that later became-for a brief period-stardom. He was billed as the "world's greatest accordion player" and appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" a record 48 times. His success was interrupted when Contino was drafted during the Korean War.

Seth Lipsky (born in 1946 in Brooklyn) is the current editor of the "New York Sun", a right of center daily newspaper in New York City. Mr. Lipsky writes most of the "Sun"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s editorials, and counts Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Ariel Sharon, and Milton Friedman as his intellectual and ideological heroes. He has a long history of working in the newspaper business, …

Martha Rainville is a former Vermont National Guard Adjutant General, and retired Air Force Major General. In 2006 she ran as the Republican candidate for Vermont's at-large congressional district. She was defeated by Democratic candidate Peter Welch.

Arthur Barnette Spingarn was an attorney while in the army during World War I, spoke out against discriminatory treatment of Blacks in the military. Spingarn attended Columbia University. He served as the NAACP's president between 1940-65, and chaired the associations's legal committee for many years.

Ed Fallon is an American politician from the U.S. state of Iowa. A Democrat, he was a candidate for Governor of Iowa and served as a member of the Iowa General Assembly from 1993 to 2007. The son of a member of the U.S. military, Fallon was born in Santa Monica, California in 1958, but spent the majority of his formative years living in Massachusetts. After dropping out of Marlboro College in Vermont, he spent several years traveling around Europe.

John A. Bennett (died 13 April, 1961) was a Private First Class in the United States Army who was convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl. He was an inmate at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. After President John F. Kennedy personally reviewed and approved the sentence of death imposed by the court-martial, Bennett was hanged on 13 April, 1961, …

Robert Donald Taplett (1919 - December 17, 2004) was a highly decorated United States Marine who was most notable for commanding 3rd Battalion 5th Marines during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War for which he was awarded the Navy Cross - the second highest medal for valor in the United States Armed Forces. Taplett served with distinction in the Marine Corps for 20 years. He served aboard ship in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Ehud Tenenbaum, known as The Analyzer, is an Israeli hacker from the city Hod HaSharon who became known after hacking into several computer systems based in the United States, including military ones. In 2001 he pleaded guilty for attacks he performed against Pentagon systems, as well as attacks against the Knesset's website and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He was released after 8 months, in March 2003.

Daniel Robert Eldon (September 18, 1970 in Hampstead, England - July 12, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia) was a British photojournalist. He was working for Reuters as a freelance photographer when he was dispatched to the site of an attack, led by United States forces, on what was believed to be where Mohammed Farah Aidid's Habar Gedir clan were meeting to plot against U.S and U.N. forces. In the aftermath of the assault, Eldon and three colleagues were filming the scene, …

Makubin Thomas Owens is an American military historian and conservative political figure. He is currently the the Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Directed Research and Professor of Strategy and Force Planning for the Naval War College, as well as a contributing editor to "National Review". Owens has previously served as a national security advisor to Senator Bob Kasten and in the Department of Energy under the Reagan administration.

Sergeant First Class Agustin Ramos Calero, born in Isabela, Puerto Rico, was awarded 22 decorations and medals from the U.S. Army for his actions during World War II, thus becoming the most decorated Puerto Rican soldier from the island and second most decorated Puerto Rican soldier in the United States military during that war.

William Cooley, sometimes referred as William Cooley, Jr., William Coolie, William Colee, or William Cooly, (1783 - 1863) was an American salvager, one of the first white settlers in modern day Broward County, and a regional leader. On January 4, 1836, his family was murdered by Seminoles during the Second Seminole War, leading to the abandonment of the New River Settlement.

Petra Lovetinska-Seipel is a Czech-born U.S. military officer. She holds the rank of captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Lovetinska-Seipel became the first foreign-born female graduate (and second female graduate overall) of The Citadel when she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2000. The Citadel began admitting women in 1996. Lovetinska-Seipel has served in the Iraq War. She is married to a fellow Marine officer, Captain Patrick Seipel.

Sheila E. Widnall , Institute Professor Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Martin Hendon (born November 9, 1944 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an author, POW/MIA activist, and two-term Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's 11th District. His 2007 book, "An Enormous Crime", chronicles the history of American soldiers abandoned in Indochina following the Vietnam War and the circumstances that left them there.

Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14 1866 - June 18 1957) was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist in the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work "The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness", which he himself came to regard as deeply flawed, …

Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883-September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States armed forces to lose his life in an aircraft accident. Born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, knowledge of Corporal Scott's life begins with being orphaned in 1889 after his parents died in the Johnstown Flood; he was henceforth raised by an aunt.

John Paul (Johnny) Lazor (September 9, 1912 - December 9, 2002) was a backup outfielder in Major League Baseball who played his career for the Boston Red Sox (1943-1946). Lazor batted left handed and threw right handed. He was born in Taylor, Washington. Lazor provided four years of good services for the Boston Red Sox while Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio were in the military service. His most productive season came in 1945, when he posted career-highs in games played (101), …