- Bobby Rush
Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23 1946) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 1st District of Illinois, located principally on the south side of Chicago. His district has a higher percentage of African American residents (65%) than any other congressional district in the nation. Rush was born in Albany, Georgia, was educated at Roosevelt University, … - Finnis D. McCleery
Finnis Dawson McCleery was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. McCleery joined the Army from San Angelo, Texas, and by May 14 1968 was serving as a platoon sergeant in Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment. During an assault on that day, in Quang Tin Province, Republic of Vietnam, … - Henry Wills
Henry Wills was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Wills joined the Army from his birth state of Pennsylvania and served as a Private in Company C of the 8th Cavalry Regiment. He was cited for providing "[s]ervices against hostile Indians" near Fort Selden, New Mexico, from July 8 to July 11 1873, … - Paul Ray Smith
Paul Ray Smith (September 24, 1969-April 4, 2003) was a United States Army Sergeant First Class who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Operation Iraqi Freedom while serving with B Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, Iraq. He was also the first recipient of the Medal of Honor Flag. - Pat Tillman
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. - Casey Sheehan
Casey Austin Sheehan (May 29, 1979-April 4, 2004) was a Specialist in the United States Army who was killed by enemy action while serving in the Iraq War. He is the son of Patrick Sheehan, a sales representative, and Cindy Sheehan, who subsequently became a prominent anti-war protester. - Darrell Anderson
US Army Specialist Darrell Anderson (b. Lexington, Kentucky, 1982) is a United States Army deserter and anti-Iraq war activist. Anderson joined the U.S. Army in January 2003 to get money for college and to serve his country. He later served in Iraq with the US Army's 1st Armored Division. He was awarded a Purple Heart after being injured by shrapnel in a roadside bombing in April 2004. - Charles Graner
Charles A. Graner, Jr., (born 1968) is a former U.S. Army reservist and one of several soldiers charged by the Army in connection with the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. Graner, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war in Abu Ghraib, a notorious prison in Baghdad. Graner has been accused of being a torturer, sadist, … - Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 - July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" and his frequent collaborations with fellow "Odd Couple" star Jack Lemmon. - Charles Robert Jenkins
Charles Robert Jenkins (born February 18, 1940) is a former United States Army soldier who lived in North Korea from 1965 to 2004 after deserting his unit and crossing the DMZ. - Laszlo Rabel
Laszlo Rabel was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Rabel joined the Army from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and by November 13 1968 was serving as a staff sergeant in the 74th Infantry Detachment (Long Range Patrol), 173rd Airborne Brigade. On that day, in Binh Dinh Province of the Republic of Vietnam, … - Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek-immigrant parents in Brookline, Massachusetts and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts' history - Paul Ronald Lambers
Paul Ronald Lambers was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Lambers joined the Army from his birth city of Holland, Michigan, and by August 20 1968 was serving as a sergeant in Company A, 2d Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. During a firefight on that day, in Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam, … - Thomas James Kinsman
Thomas James Kinsman is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Kinsman joined the Army from Seattle, Washington, and by February 6 1968 was serving as a private first class in Company B, 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. During a firefight on that day, near Vinh Long in the Republic of Vietnam, … - William Arkin
William M. Arkin (b. 1956) is an American political commentator, activist, journalist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier. - Lori Piestewa
SPC Lori Ann Piestewa (December 14, 1979-March 23, 2003) was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps soldier killed during the same Iraqi Army attack in which her friend Jessica Lynch was injured. A member of the Hopi tribe, Piestewa was the first woman killed in the 2003 Iraq war and is the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving with the U.S. military. - Eddie Slovik
Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 - January 31,1945) was a private in the United States Army during World War II and the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Although over twenty-one thousand soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II-including forty-nine death sentences-only Slovik's death sentence was carried out. - Gordon Douglas Yntema
Gordon Douglas Yntema was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Yntema joined the Army from Detroit, Michigan, and by January 16 1968 was serving as a Sergeant in Company D of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). On that day, near Thong Binh in the Republic of Vietnam, … - Fred Zabitosky
Fred William Zabitosky was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Zabitosky joined the Army from his birth city of Trenton, New Jersey, and by February 19 1968 was serving as a Staff Sergeant with the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). On that day, while on reconnaissance patrol in Vietnam, his small team came under intense enemy fire. - Jerry Wayne Wickam
Jerry Wayne Wickam was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Wickam joined the Army from Chicago, Illinois, and by January 6 1968 was serving as a Corporal in Troop F of 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. On that day, near Loc Ninh in the Republic of Vietnam, Wickam single-handedly attacked several enemy bunkers before being fatally wounded. - Neil Sheehan
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan is an American journalist. As a reporter for "The New York Times" in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series in the "Times" revealed a secret U.S. Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and resulted in government attempts to halt publication. This exposé would earn The New York Times a Pulitzer Prize. - William D. Port
William D. Port was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Port joined the Army from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and by January 12 1968 was serving as a private first class in Company C, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division. During a firefight on that day, in the Que Son Valley, Heip Duc Province, Republic of Vietnam, … - Kenneth L. Olson
Kenneth Lee Olson was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Olson joined the Army from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and by May 13 1968 was serving as a specialist fourth class in Company A, 5th Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate). During a firefight on that day, in the Republic of Vietnam, … - Bruce Anderson
Bruce Anderson (19 June 1845 - 22 August 1922) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration - the Medal of Honor - for his actions during the American Civil War. Anderson joined the military from Ephratah, New York. While serving as a Private in Company K of the 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry, he participated in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher. - Doug Barnard Jr.
Druie Douglas Barnard, Jr. is an American politician from Georgia. He attended the Richmond County public schools; graduated, Academy of Richmond County, Augusta, Ga., 1939; attended Augusta College, 1939–1940; A.B., Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 1943; served in United States Army during World War II, 1943–1945; LL.B., Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, 1948; engaged in banking profession, 1948–1962; executive secretary to Governor Carl Sanders, … - Kenneth E. Stumpf
Kenneth E. Stumpf is a retired United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Stumpf joined the Army from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and by April 25 1967 was serving as a Specialist Fourth Class in Company C, 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On that day, near Duc Pho in the Republic of Vietnam, … - Frank Sutton
Frank Spencer Sutton (October 23, 1923 - June 28, 1974) was an American actor who is best remembered for his role as the loud, hard-nosed drill instructor Sergeant Vincent Carter on the CBS television series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." Sutton was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1923. When he was eight years old, his father took a position as a linotype operator at the "Nashville Tennessean" in Nashville. - Ricky Clousing
Sergeant Ricky Clousing (born 1982) is an interrogator for the United States Army in the B Company of the 313th Military Intelligence Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division. He served in Iraq from December 2004 until April 2005 with the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, during which time he witnessed what he describes as "abuse of power ... without accountability". - Sammy L. Davis
Sammy L. Davis (born November 1, 1946) is an American soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, for valorous conduct while serving in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. In November 1967, his unit was west of Cai Lay when they fell under heavy mortar attack by the Viet Cong as around 15,000 VC swarmed the area. Upon detecting an enemy position, Davis manned a machine gun to give his comrades covering fire so they could fire artillery in response. - Danny J. Petersen
Danny John Petersen was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Petersen joined the Army from Kansas City, Missouri, and by January 9 1970 was serving as a specialist fourth class in Company B, 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On that day, in Tay Ninh Province of the Republic of Vietnam, … - Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson (December 28, 1854 - December 3, 1928) was a Scots-American soldier who was awarded a Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Thompson was born in Markinch in Fife, Scotland. After emigrating with his family to the United States in 1865, Thompson enlisted in the United States Army in 1875, serving in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment's C company from 1875 until 1880. His commanding officer was Capt. Thomas Custer. - Desmond Doss
Desmond T. Doss was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor (Cpl. Thomas W. Bennett, an army medic during World War II, is the only other). He was a Private First Class (at the time of his Medal of Honor heroics) in the U.S. Army assigned to the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division. Desmond Doss refused to kill, or carry a weapon into combat, because of his personal beliefs as a Seventh-day Adventist. - Jeremy Hinzman
Jeremy Hinzman (born in 1979 in Rapid City, South Dakota) is a former United States Army private from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In January of 2004, he fled the United States as one of nine American deserters openly seeking refugee status in Canada. On March 24, 2005 an immigration panel rejected Hinzman's claim, determining that he was not a conscientious objector and was thus ineligible for refugee status. - Gary George Wetzel
Gary George Wetzel is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Wetzel joined the Army from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and by January 8 1968 was a Private First Class serving as a door gunner in the 173rd Assault Helicopter Company. On that day, near Ap Dong An, Republic of Vietnam, his helicopter was shot down and the survivors, including Wetzel, … - Shoshana Johnson
Shoshana Nyree Johnson (born 1971) was the first black female prisoner of war in the military history of the United States. Johnson was a Specialist of the U.S. Army 507th Maintenance Company, 5/52 ADA BN, 11th ADA Brigade. During a gun fight that lead to her capture she suffered bullet wounds to both of her ankles. She was freed in a rescue mission conducted by U.S. Marines on April 13, 2003. - Hasan Akbar
Hasan Karim Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools, c. 1971) is an African American and Muslim convert from Los Angeles, California. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, or "frag", of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, while he was a U.S. Army soldier with the 101st Airborne, 326th Engineer Battalion. - Patrick Miller
Private First Class Patrick Miller was a mechanic, a member of the US Army 507th Maintenance Company, and became a POW in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was awarded the Silver Star for valor. - Patrick Stewart
Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart (Reno, Nevada October 21, 1970-September 25, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army. He died in combat in Afghanistan when his Chinook helicopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade while returning to base. Patrick Stewart was a resident of Fernley, Nevada, USA. After his death, controversy ensued when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) refused to imprint a Wiccan pentacle on his grave, to the dismay of his widow, Roberta Stewart. - Keith Matthew Maupin
Keith Matthew "Matt" Maupin (July 13, 1983-) is a United States Army PFC captured by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004 while serving in the Iraq War after his convoy came under attack by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire near Baghdad, Iraq. On June 28, 2004, Al Jazeera aired a poor quality video purportedly depicting Maupin's execution. On June 30, 2004, an Army spokesman said the video was "totally inconclusive." - Franklin D. Miller
Franklin D. Miller was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Miller joined the Army from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and by January 5 1970 was serving as a staff sergeant in the 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. On that day, in Kontum Province, Republic of Vietnam, Miller's small group came under attack from a numerically superior enemy force.
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