Military appreciation, veteran reunions, and stories of national service and heritage.
Patriotism
George Klein enlisted in the Navy at 15, right after Pearl Harbor, and served in the Pacific through WWII's worst fighting — but came home to find he'd never been given the medals he earned. Eighty years later, at age 100, his family tracked down their congressman to finally make it right.
Patriotism
In 1969, 20-year-old Pfc. Garfield Langhorn threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers in Vietnam — and gave his life. This July, 57 years later, a fellow veteran helped bring him home to rest among the men he served with, with full military honors.
Patriotism
At 99 years old, World War II veteran Glenn Fisher finally received the Purple Heart his country had owed him since 1945 — 81 years after German shrapnel wounded him at the Rhine River. A decades-old reporting error had kept it from him, until people who cared set the record right, just mo