Free Republic

One of only four remaining Medal of Honor winners from WW2. The last remaining Marine MOH winner from WW2. The last remaining MOH winner from the Pacific theater of WW2.

<p>WASHINGTON -- White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that it is "silly" to think that a 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner is being asked to remove a flagpole from his front yard.</p>

Colonel James Swett, USMC Another legend has left us. Colonel James Swett Sr., United States Marine Corps pilot of WWII passed away at the age of 88 here in Redding, California. He was the recipient of the Medal of Honor, the DFC and held two Purple Hearts for his actions in the South Pacific while assigned to VMF-221.

KUWAIT(Army News Service, April 29, 2006) – Life can go down many avenues. For then-Specialist Fourth Class Gordon Roberts, the roads treaded deep into Vietnam’s Thua Thien Province, testing his every attribute that would win him a spot in military history. Roberts, a native of Lebanon, Ohio, joined the Army three days after graduating from high school, a natural step for someone from a military family growing up in a small, patriotic town. At the age of 17, he was an Army infantryman. Above and beyond The date was July 11, 1969. Roberts was a rifleman with Company B, 1st...