One of the largest crowds in years turned out to welcome home veterans returning to Springfield from an Honor Flight of the ...

Naib Subedar Chunni Lal is the only soldier awarded the Ashok Chakra, Vir Chakra and Sena Medal. IMAGE ... Chunni Lal had lost a lot of blood. By the time a helicopter could airlift him to ...

GAINESVILLE, Texas (KXII) - Medal of Honor week continued in Gainesville ... Leaders from across the region and the state came to salute this major milestone. “More than 100,000 students ...

In 1968, after earning a bronze medal in the 200-meter dash at the Olympics in Mexico City, Carlos and fellow medal-winner Tommie Smith used the very public forum of the podium to protest racial ...

U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos made the salute on the podium in Mexico City after being given their gold and bronze medals following the men’s 200m race. Smith and Carlos each wore a ...

He served in 17 countries and was awarded six military medals, including the illustrious ... but as a battalion on D-Day I don't think we had a lot, nowhere near expected." Asked if he felt ...

Jonathan Owens is taking notes from wife Simone Biles’ gymnastics skills — and applying them to his football games. In the middle of Owens’ Sunday, November 24, Chicago Bears game, he scored ...

Salute to Service: A Veterans Day Celebration ... The Medal of Honor is our nation's highest and most prestigious military award, recognizing valor in combat. On National Medal of Honor Day ...

Along with Australia’s Peter Norman, the second-place finisher, they mounted the victory pedestal to receive their medals ... hands in a clenched-fist salute. A wave of boos rippled through ...

In January, laws banning the public display of the Nazi salute, the swastika or other ... "This has a good chance of being real. A lot of medals and equipment were buried by people after the ...

Feb. 15, 2021 As Hulten approached the medal podium after finishing third in the 1936 Winter Games, she was told she would have to perform a Nazi salute to ... “Nick does a lot of managing ...

I was so disappointed, but a lot of athletes ... ll just keep going. I salute him for improving me and bringing my level much higher. It’s through my coach that I got medals, better performance ...