What makes someone courageous? The Monitor spoke with Chris Cassidy, one of the leaders of the National Medal of Honor Museum ...

The highly anticipated Grand Opening Celebration of the National Medal of Honor Museum took place on March 22, 2025, with a ...

Clint Romesha was awarded the Medal of Honor “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action.” The outpost where his unit was based in Afghanistan came under heavy fire. Repeatedly on that day in ...

Halifax Army veteran Joshua Curtis drowned in Florida on April 24 while trying to free his son and niece from the grip off a ...

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1939 — Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees did not play against the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium, ending at 2,130 his streak of consecutive games. Gehrig never played again. Babe Dahlgren took his ...

1975 — Bob Watson of the Houston Astros, sensing baseball history, raced around the bases on Milt May’s home run and crossed the plate at Candlestick Park in time to score major league baseball’s 1 ...

As former NCI Director W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, MMHC, embarks on the next stage of her career as CEO of the James Cancer ...

Black female unit, recognized for its vital wartime contributions, sorted a 17 million mail backlog in three months and was ...

On Tuesday, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — the only mostly Black, all-women unit to serve overseas during ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only one comprised of Black women to be sent overseas during World War ...

Staff Sergeant Knutson-Collins grew up in Battle Creek and joined the Army in 2018. He was killed in a training accident in ...