Veterans and lawmakers from Wyoming have voiced their objections to a Pentagon plan to return church bells seized by U.S. troops more than a century ago after a battle during the Philippine-American war.

When Erin Stoesz was 10 years old, she found a shoe box of old letters in her grandmother's closet. It was a series of correspondence between John Hull and his wife, Mary, during the Civil War. She dug deeper into her family's history and found connections to the American Revolution.

Walter Mintus, who served in the same U.S. Navy Torpedo Squadron as future President George H.W. Bush, was shot down in late July over the archipelago nation of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. He went missing in action and was presumed dead, but his remains were never recovered and the case seemingly went cold for many decades.

The hunt for auctioneers to settle a $9.7 million debt by selling off parts of a valuable collection of Lincoln artifacts, including an iconic stovepipe hat and gloves bloodied the night he was assassinated, began Wednesday, but the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation cautioned a sale isn't imminent.

Researchers are hoping the discovery of the USS Abner Read brings some awareness about the Aleutian Islands campaign to the American public. For families of the sailors who died, they want the finding to offer some solace.

District councilor Ephraim Gothe said Wednesday he stumbled across the stretch of concrete wall, partly hidden by bushes, on a walk with locals in June. He said authorities gave the remnant protected status last week.

“The mettle of our scientists and the capabilities of our labs will be challenged, but in the months and years ahead, they will make identifications from these remains and give families long-sought answers,” said Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Director Kelly McKeague.

The B-25 Mitchell bomber that became known as the Badin Bomber crashed into the North Carolina lake on June 8, 1944. The bodies of the pilot and copilot, along with the wreckage were never recovered.

A public celebration on Tuesday in Window Rock, Arizona, will include a parade, presentations, speeches and a luncheon to honor the more than 400 Navajo Marines who created a radio code during WWII.

A century after she joined the Marine Corps, Opha May Johnson's historic achievement was commemorated. At the time she enlisted, it would still be two years until women could legally vote.

The Philippine government has long insisted on return of the bells, which belonged to the Roman Catholic church in the town of Balangiga. But some veterans and Wyoming’s members of Congress are against the move, seeing them as a memorial to U.S. troops.

Arsène Tchakarian, the last surviving member of the Armenian-led Manouchian network, which fought alongside the French resistance against the Nazi occupiers during World War II, died Aug. 4 at a hospital in Villejuif, south of Paris. He was 101.

Last month, the Defense Department announced that it had accounted for Dickson, among more than two dozen black aviators known as Tuskegee Airmen who were still missing from World War II.

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As memorials have toppled and Confederate place names have vanished in the year since the Charlottesville riots, the United Daughters of the Confederacy have fought back with lawsuits aimed at stopping the removal of rebel monuments from public spaces.

Nearly 100 years after Lt. Erwin Bleckley's death, members of Wichita's VFW Post 112 are hoping to bring back his Medal of Honor display and the only remaining factory-built restored DH-4 airplane to Wichita for Bleckley Day on Oct. 6.

A Confederate monument, erected as Tuskegee Institute celebrated its 25th anniversary, still stands in the same park, both of them owned by a Confederate heritage group. Students from what's now Tuskegee University once tried to tear down the old gray statue, but critics who want it gone aren't optimistic about removing it, even as similar monuments come down nationwide.

The time capsule was buried on April 28, 1894 in concert with the dedication of Swampscott's just completed first high school "The Phillips School" — on the hilltop property that the Phillips Family donated to the town. The building construction costs registered in at $45,000.

Ronnie Anderson and his attorney Niles Haymer argued Anderson couldn't get a fair trial in the same place where a "symbol of oppression and racial intolerance" stands.

The bones of two Union soldiers killed at the Civil War's Second Battle of Bull Run will be laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 6, the cemetery said Monday.

Romanian and German archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fortress dating back as far as 3,400 years in western Romania. Archaeologist Florin Gogaltan said the find represented "one of the biggest prehistoric fortresses in Europe in the Bronze Age."

By the time World War II's Battle of Munda ended on Aug. 5, 1943, 16 of Company E's men were dead; nine were from the same small Ohio county.

A long-anticipated study into the cancer risks of New Mexico residents living near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test likely will be published in 2019, the National Cancer Institute announced.

Robert L. Martin, a combat pilot who said he flew "63 and a half" missions during World War II as part of the barrier-breaking Tuskegee Airmen, was shot down over German-occupied territory on the 64th and spent five weeks trying to return to Allied lines with the help of Josip Broz Tito's anti-fascist Yugoslav partisans, died July 26 at a senior living center in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He was 99.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Rick Spooner, now 92, said he and his wife, Gloria, opened the Globe & Laurel restaurant 50 years ago out of a desire to serve those who put everything — even their lives — on the line for the love of their country.

A leader in the Women's Airforce Service Pilots — a group of female aviators tasked with ferrying warplanes from factories to staging areas for deployment overseas — crashed a P-38 fighter plane in 1944. Witnesses say the memory of Evelyn Sharp is still strong today.

A German U-boat had torpedoed the Mirlo, a British tanker loaded with gasoline, seven miles from shore. The British had been transporting badly needed fuel from the United States for the forces in Europe during World War I.

In 1948, New Mexico's constitution barred American Indians living on reservations from participating in elections.Decades later, Native Americans have won seats in the Legislature and the state’s most populous city appears poised to elect a Laguna Pueblo woman to Congress.

Veterans in Austin, Texas now find themselves in a precarious position: whether to allow the Confederate flag and the groups that want to carry it to march in the city’s annual Veterans Day Parade.

A military cemetery, which includes the graves of three Medal of Honor recipients, has been under the care of the City of Vallejo, Calif., which hasn’t had the funds to keep up the grounds. Lawmakers are considering assigning its maintenance to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

A letter never before seen by the general public that offers a glimpse of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s evolving thoughts on the Vietnam War is up for sale — again.

A trove of historic film, mostly home movies, is being made available Wednesday by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.

At the time of his discharge in 1919, Mark McCarthy Jr. was given a "Good Conduct Medal," but his son often wondered why he was not given a Purple Heart, for being wounded in battle. 99 years later, he has received his Purple Heart.

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Clara Barton worked on the battlefields and hospitals during the Civil War, but before she went on to found the American Red Cross, she opened the Missing Soldiers Office in an attempt to provide information to families of missing Union soldiers.

The Arsenal was built in the mid-1800s by the United States government to make weapons for the American military. The Confederacy took control of it in 1861 for the Civil War and expanded it.

What awoke Confederate troops on July 30, 1864 was 8,000 pounds of gunpowder exploding from a mine that Union troops had tunneled under a Confederate fortification, leaving a massive crater and thousands of casualties.

For four hours Saturday night, an event space in a DoubleTree Hilton near Washington Dulles International Airport became a war room in the fight against forgetting.

St. Nicholas Day was approaching in 1944 when Harry Stutz and Richard Brookins, corporals in the U.S. Army's 28th Infantry Division, arrived in newly liberated Luxembourg.

French and Americans gathered at the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France on Saturday to mark the centennial of the Oise-Aisne Offensive.

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In a ceremony Wednesday, the completed National Montford Point Marine Memorial was formally transferred to the Secretary of the Navy and presented to the Montford Point Marines.

Joint U.S.-North Korean military searches for American remains were suspended in 2005 by former President George W. Bush as tensions increased between the nations over North Korean nuclear activity.

President Harry S Truman was disturbed by news of increasing attacks on black veterans across the country. Near the end of World War II, hundreds of black veterans returning home from war were assaulted and lynched — some simply for wearing uniforms.

A memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II.

Mary Ellis flew Spitfires and bombers, bringing the aircraft from factories to airfields. She flew more than 1,000 aircraft during the war and afterward managed Sandown airport on the Isle of Wight. She has died at the age of 101.

The American victory was made possible by France's army and navy, Dutch weapons and Spanish gold, and it was part of a larger conflict that included battles fought in the Caribbean and Gibraltar, far from Lexington and Concord.

A total of 13,000 interned Japanese Americans — about the population of Twin Falls in 1942 — were held at the Minidoka Relocation Center, known to locals as the “Hunt Camp,” north of Eden, Idaho.

Harry S. Truman didn't start out as a champion of African Americans. In fact, his dramatic transformation from segregationist to a civil rights advocate who desegregated the military 70 years ago today was nothing short of astonishing.

Some of Amelia Earhart's final messages were heard by members of the military and others looking for Earhart. Others caught the attention of people who just happened to be listening to their radios when they stumbled across random pleas for help.

Retired Rear Adm. Alene Duerk spent her career in the Navy’s nursing corps, serving during three major wars and eventually rising to the Navy’s top nurse position, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

The memorial will be presented to Montford Point Marines in a gifting ceremony scheduled for Wednesday at Lejeune Memorial Gardens, in Jacksonville, N.C.

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, an activist and researcher who would go on to uncover key documents that proved the U.S. government had racist motives for incarcerating Japanese-Americans during World War II, died Wednesday in Torrance. She was 93.

Bidding for the May 9, 1754, edition of the Gazette will begin at $40,000, Nate D. Sanders Auctions said in a statement.

The 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper, whose remains were missing for decades after the war, was laid to rest at Riverside National Cemetery in California.

During the 1940s, people began offering their dogs to help guard key installations throughout the nation. A national organization called Dogs for Defense was created.

Melvin Flath encountered a Frankenstein's monster of a vehicle — a boat and truck hybrid snatched up from a postwar surplus sale — and had an idea.

Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation is a sponsor and he typically is the star attraction.

C.S. “Chuck” McClintic, 83, a former U.S. Marine aircraft mechanic, was among six military veterans who took flight Friday afternoon in a set of vintage war planes.

To this day, 16 years after his death, Ted Williams remains something of an enigma, a man whose other-worldly talent was quickly evident but who was a complex riddle in so many other facets, as an exceptional chapter “Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived” in PBS TV’s “American Masters” series seeks to illuminate.

A pioneering Women's Army Auxiliary Corps volunteer turned 100 Friday, and recounted her time as a typist behind the American World War II effort.

Eric Porter was only 16 when he acquired the Musette Bag, a popular World War II alternative to a haversack. About 20 years have passed, and Porter’s collection of military antiques has only grown. Now his garage in Sherwood, Ore., is filled with the antiques.

Judy Garland was joking with the audience when she said her voice sounded like Rochester. The star of The Wizard of Oz was battling a chest cold during a performance in front of 3,500 soldiers and civilians at Carlisle Barracks.

The recent summit in Helsinki with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin carried echoes of a tête-à-tête between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in the capital of another Nordic nation. The 1986 summit in Reykjavik became a turning-point in the Cold War, paving the way for a seminal agreement on nuclear disarmament.

Although initially ordered not to discuss the attack upon their vessel, crew members of the USS Liberty started comparing recollections of that day. By the time of a 15th anniversary gathering in 1982, they had formed the USS Liberty Veterans Association, a group dedicated to raising awareness of the Liberty's story and collecting information to clarify its history.

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Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins, visiting Washington, D.C. this week to take part in pre-game ceremonies for baseball's All-Star Game, sat down with Stars and Stripes to talk about his new book, "A Tiger Among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley."

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Csaid in a statement he was “appalled and disgusted” by the vandalism, promising the state would fully fund the replacement. The new stone is expected to be nearly impossible to shatter.

Intent on drawing Allied reserves into the area from northern France and Belgium in July 1918, Germany’s military commander Erich Ludendorff sent his troops to cross one of the key gateways to Paris. But the American Expeditionary Force’s 3rd Division stood in their way.

On Sunday, Gilman family members and local history buffs returned to the Gilman family cemetery plot in the Exeter Cemetery for the formal rededication of Nicholas Gilman's stone.

One hundred years later, the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri features an exhibition that focuses on the individuals who lived and died during the “crucible of 1918.”

On July 18, 157 years ago, the Battle of Blackburn's Ford was fought during an extremely hot and humid afternoon. The battle occurred several miles south of Centreville, Va., and there were 83 casualties for the Union and 68 casualties for the Confederacy.

As sea stories go, few are more gripping than the sinking of the heavy cruiser Indianapolis and the loss of about 880 men in the closing days of World War II.

During the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency, a nuclear catastrophe seemed more than theoretical. Reagan believed leaders of the Soviet Union had contemplated a possible winnable nuclear war. U.S. advisers contemplated and believed the same thing. Each nation looked at the other as a rival bent on the other's destruction.

The White House in a report this week declared the War on Poverty "largely over and a success," arguing that few Americans are truly poor – only about 3 percent of the population – and that the booming economy is the best path upward for those who remain in poverty.

One-hundred years ago this weekend, the U.S. Army formally established in Anne Arundel County a convalescent camp for recovering soldiers wounded in World War I.

A clutch of royals, led by Queen Elizabeth II and joined by Prince Harry and his new wife, Duchess Meghan of Sussex, kicked off celebrations Tuesday marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force, including another balcony appearance at the palace for the former Meghan Markle.

A filmmaker who shares the stories of World War II veterans is opening an education center in Rhode Island so students can learn about the war and meet the men who fought in it.

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Retired Army Col. Rick Stark Jr. is the latest to participate in the Artist-in-Residence program at Gettysburg National Military Park.

Winning four goal medals in two different Olympics along with all of the accolades associated with his hall of fame track and field career, even Harrison Dillard was overwhelmed with joy at his home on Saturday afternoon.

Fewer than 3,000 paratroopers made four combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. Following the death of retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman, fewer than 16 of those paratroopers are alive today.

in 1893, A.G. Miller hoped that the school for veterans' orphans would be in the valley that witnessed the march of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia before its defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg.

Puget Sound’s first July 4th celebration in 1841 was quite a party. They had a barbecue, drinks and shot off two howitzers sailors carried off a ship. And like so many do-it-yourself fireworks displays, there was a mishap.

“C-130 Goes Down on An Loc Ammo Run — No One Could Survive, but They Did,” says a headline on an article about an April 18, 1972, crash by Stars and Stripes’ Vietnam bureau. Decades later the pilot of that plane recounts his story.

Anne Davis of Sturgis has dedicated countless hours searching historical records for the identities of Civil War veterans buried in unmarked graves. Her latest discovery is of four Union soldiers buried in the Fawn River Township Cemetery.

It can be difficult to comprehend how easily Africa has been erased from world history. One powerful example is its involvement in World War I, which has been virtually forgotten, despite the fact that an estimated 2 million Africans were pulled into the conflict as soldiers, workers, and personnel both in Europe and in Africa, according to historians.

Fred Spencer stood among military service members and their families to pour the final shot of Crown Royal Whiskey into a bucket of sand.

After war broke out in the Pacific and the forces of Japan took the Philippines, Dorothy, Fred, Carol and Bobby from April 1942 to February 1945 were interned in camps at an Iloilo prison and at Manila's Santo Tomas University.

Joe Johnson, serving as a naval radio man on the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese began their assault on Dec. 7, 1941, was among 420 sailors and Marines who died aboard the ship.

Last November, at the national conference of the American Wine Society, Bartholomew Broadbent again preached the Madeira gospel and chastised his audience for not remembering Madeira's role in their nation's history.

A plaque unveiled Wednesday at the overlook of the Falls of the Ohio State Park recounts the seventh member of the Coast Guard to die while on duty, but the first to lose his life in an active search and rescue.

Chris Dennett, a 29-year-old historian, says he founded the “We Will Remember” project last summer and has conducted interviews with WWII veterans in Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Army Air Forces airmen were members of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On Nov. 2, 1944, they were part of a nine-man crew that joined an armada of bombers on a mission to Merseburg, Germany.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of New York has joined New York National Guard leaders in Times Square for a ceremony commemorating the centennial of the battlefield service of a storied Army chaplain.

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Walking was something Roosevelt did with great difficulty. He looked awkward and vulnerable, and he was rarely filmed doing so.

Diplomats, politicians and military leaders gathered at Frankfurt airport Tuesday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift – a mission lauded as the greatest peacetime aerial supply mission in history.

On July 12, Aston's Auctioneers of Dudley, England (about halfway between Liverpool and London), will feature the Russian Collection auction, 25 lots of rare and unusual cameras collected from the Cold War days.

When 71-year-old Richard Smith tugged on the cord that raised an American flag high over Old Town San Diego on Saturday, no one was shooting at him. The same could not be said for Smith’s great-great-grandfather during the Mexican-American War in 1846.

The Mariners’ Museum Library has more than 2 million items, including nearly 110,000 rare books dating to the 16th century, maps, charts, and the mother lode of almost everything related to the popular Chris-Craft boat manufacturer.

Army Staff Sgt. Michael T. Jeffrey was wounded in Iraq in 2006. He received a Purple Heart in 2012 at the Warrior Transition Unit in Fort Knox, but it wasn't until he made it home that he realized it wasn't his medal. On Tuesday, nonprofit Purple Hearts Reunited righted that wrong in an emotional, official ceremony to bestow the honor.

Francisco Joaquin is surely one of the most senior interns in Washington. He is spending the summer in the D.C. Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs, assisting vets, many of them low-income.

Robert L. Martin, a combat pilot who said he flew "63 and a half" missions during World War II as part of the barrier-breaking Tuskegee Airmen, was shot down over German-occupied territory on the 64th and spent five weeks trying to return to Allied lines with the help of Josip Broz Tito's anti-fascist Yugoslav partisans, died July 26 at a senior living center in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He was 99.

Kentucky is known for its bourbon, and Tennessee for its whiskey. But in Texas, as bold and brazen as the Lone Star State might be, there’s no distinctly Texan liquor. Three veterans are looking to change that.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Rick Spooner, now 92, said he and his wife, Gloria, opened the Globe & Laurel restaurant 50 years ago out of a desire to serve those who put everything — even their lives — on the line for the love of their country.

President Donald Trump will posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman for his actions in 2002 on Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan. He will become the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, and just the 19th in the service’s history.

Retired Rear Adm. Alene Duerk spent her career in the Navy’s nursing corps, serving during three major wars and eventually rising to the Navy’s top nurse position, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Retired Army Gen. Ronald Griffith, who commanded a tank division that helped rout Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard in the Persian Gulf War and later served as vice chief of staff of the Army, died July 18 at his home in Arlington, Virginia. He was 82.

Randy Dexter downplays his story. "I'm just a guy with a dog," he said. But Dexter, a 36-year-old combat veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, and Captain, his 6 1/2 -year-old service dog, saved each other's lives.

The USS John S. McCain, originally christened in 1992 in honor of Sen. John McCain's Navy admiral father and grandfather, was rededicated Thursday to also honor the former Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam veteran.

Bob Hart uses the VA Choice program to receive medical care at a private hospital close to his home near Jacksonville, Ill. He was informed several weeks ago that he owed the hospital for treatment he thought the VA covered.

Bill Huskins got his start in racing when he left the Navy in 1946. At that time, though, there was no regulated series.

Holly "Cargo" Harrison decided to hike the entire Western Hemisphere, and the journey was marked by dog attacks in South America, a life-threatening heart attack in Nevada and a bear attack in Alaska.

While piloting a B-24 on July 12, 1944, 2nd Lt. Kuchwara was shot out of the sky over Germany, crashed and was taken captive there. In May of 2018, his family finally secured him the POW medal that he deserved.

Fewer than 3,000 paratroopers made four combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. Following the death of retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman, fewer than 16 of those paratroopers are alive today.

The U.S. Army Air Forces airmen were members of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On Nov. 2, 1944, they were part of a nine-man crew that joined an armada of bombers on a mission to Merseburg, Germany.

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Garlin “Murl” Conner never wavered under fire during his 28 consecutive months of combat in North Africa and Europe. In the two decades since Conner's death, his family never wavered in their quest for the recognition that they knew he deserved – the Medal of Honor.

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un committed during their June 12 summit in Singapore to “recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.” Families of missing servicemembers said it's an important step.

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Garlin “Murl” Conner never wavered under fire during his 28 consecutive months of combat in North Africa and Europe. In the two decades since Conner's death, his family never wavered in their quest for the recognition that they knew he deserved – the Medal of Honor.

Out of the ashes of the Battle of Okinawa grew “one of the strongest alliances in the history of alliances,” between the United States and Japan, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson told U.S. Marines attending the memorial.

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The brothers' burial together in Normandy is a culmination of improbable events that included the review of a grave marked “unknown” in Belgium, a high school history project, a military forensics team review and a family gathering in Nebraska.

The school district from which Bob Lockard would have graduated in 1944 wants him to know no one forgot his sacrifices. Lockard will walk with 156 other Circleville Tigers at Sunday's commencement ceremony.

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The citation for retired Navy SEAL Britt Slabinksi’s Medal of Honor – an upgrade from the Navy Cross he initially received for his heroics – describes “a murderous hail of machine gun fire” greeting Slabinksi and his commando team as he “charged directly toward the enemy” up the mountainside.

The men bathed in the ocean and lived in tents. They’d repair the planes with aluminum cans or whatever they could get their hands on. And they couldn’t run on the beach because they'd sink in the dark sand and ash mixture from a volcano, Joe Tusa recalled.

Retired Air Force Col. Bruce Hollywood was done searching. As an adult, he had found his Japanese birth mother and thanked her. He didn't feel a need to find his father, who had been in the U.S. Air Force. Then, a few years ago, he grew curious.

One night in his Virginia home, Jimmy Hatch decided he was ready for all of the pain to stop. His wife had to snatch a gun from his hands and later knock a knife away before Norfolk police and members of his unit arrived to help. He details his painful experiences in his book "Touching the Dragon and Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars.”

A 52-year-old father of three and the 25-year-old survivor of a horrific attack that made headlines 11 years ago met in college and struck up a friendship.

Johnny Pearson and John Noga were swapping stories and sharing laughs one recent Sunday morning, exhibiting an easy rapport and deep camaraderie that suggests the two have a longtime friendship that can weather any obstacle.

When Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) robbed retired Marine Maj. Randy Hebert of his ability to drive his prized Corvette he raffled it off and the money raised paid for the beach access that carries his name.

Richard Overton is both the oldest man in America and the oldest U.S. veteran. He turns 112 on Friday.

Retired Gen. Crosbie Saint was the commander of U.S. Army Europe from 1988 to 1992, a period that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Seventy-five years after Anthony Grant set off on his first overseas trip — to fight in Europe during World War II — he’s still traveling the world courtesy of Uncle Sam.

When Ken Bosworth reminisces about his World War II service in the Marine Corps, it doesn’t exactly match up with Hollywood.

It was the bone-chilling northern European cold that Harry Miller faced as a teenager in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that the Army and Air Force veteran most prominently recalls about his 22-year military career that spanned three major wars.

Representing wars both a lifetime and a world apart, 95-year-old Don Jakeway and 38-year-old Navy Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator and Medal of Honor recipient Edward C. Byers Jr. were honored at a Statehouse ceremony in which they and 28 others were inducted into the Ohio Military Hall of Fame.