Besides three children, Shemin left behind numerous supporters who kept up the appeal for an upgrade. On June 2, 2015, his ...

Leonard F Pryor's medals "were passed to me a few years ago, as his namesake," his great-grandson Leonard Lawson told Newsweek.

A World War I medal has been returned to the family of Joseph William Morrison, who was a Private First Class in the Army ...

In a solemn ceremony at the Orwigsburg Free Public Library, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity returned a World War I medal ...

and indomitable fighting spirit," as his Medal of Honor citation stated, were on full display -- Foss was presented with the U.S. military's top individual honor by President Franklin D.

Sgt. William Shemin was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after his heroic actions during WWI. (Congressional Medal of Honor Society) War brings out the best and worst in ...