Admiral Sylvester “Bob” Foley Jr., a member of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1950 who rose to become a four-star admiral and commander of the Pacific Fleet, died on New Year’s Eve.
Buck Henry, a comedian who created the satirical spy sitcom "Get Smart," was a frequent early host of "Saturday Night Live" and turned "plastics" into a countercultural catchword with his screenplay for "The Graduate," died Jan. 8 in Los Angeles at age 89.
Charlie Baker, one of the men who helped guard the flag the Marines planted on Iwo Jima, the South Pacific island in the legendary 1945 battle, has died, according to family.
Over the years, Joe Walsh never missed a single Pearl Harbor Memorial Day service, including the one held earlier this month, just two weeks to the day before he died.
In Vietnam Gen. Paul X. Kelley earned a Silver Star, the Legion of Merit with Valor device, and two Bronze Stars with Valor device. From 1970 to 1971, he commanded the 1st Marines.
Kerrie Hauser, 49, was known as a tireless contributor to her community as a volunteer with the International Owl Center in Houston, Minn., and other causes.
Don Imus, one of radio's most popular and polarizing figures, who sparked a national firestorm with a racially charged joke about the Rutgers University's women's basketball team, has died. He was 79.
Robert L. Thoms — nicknamed “Cajun Bob” for his thick native Baton Rouge accent — was awarded the Silver Star medal for “conspicuous gallantry” during the assault on the Arch Tower on Feb. 15, 1968, during some of the most ferocious fighting of North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive.
Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole was one of 80 members of the first U.S. strike against Japanese mainland targets in World War II, credited for bringing optimism of winning the war to the American people.
Hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered to honor the life of George Green, a Korean War veteran who died Dec. 5 with no known living relatives.
During a news conference in 2014, Lauren Bruner announced he decided to have the urn that would hold his cremated ashes interred aboard the USS Arizona.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Jack Brodie Farris Jr., who led ground forces in the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, died in his native Charlotte on Dec. 14 after a long illness. He was 84.
As a combat veteran and a retired, award-winning TV news and sports camera operator, George Larsen told good stories. An old one recounted how he first thought it was an earthquake that rattled him awake in Hawaii on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
Robert C. Billmaier, a World War II Army Air Corps sergeant, business owner, and Catholic deacon known for his humor and support for veterans, died Wednesday. He was 95.
Delta Force sniper Sgt. 1st Class James P. McMahon, one of the survivors of the October 1993 battle in Mogadishu, Somalia that claimed the lives of 18 U.S. service members, died Nov. 5. He was 64.
