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Many historians in America are complaining that people are not interested in American History, and not ready to want accuracy. Here is a video about Custer's Last Stand, in words and pictures. Enjoy 6 minutes of accurate American history! (this video was done by a Custer historian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeTsG2JpQA

Hurt cop nabs bad guy  Stabbed in head, he shoots, chases down the suspect until help arrives  BY MELISSA GRACE and ALISON GENDAR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSThursday, March 15th 2007, 4:00 AM Officer Anthony Cairone carries injured fellow Officer Angel Cruz into Jamaica Hospital after Cruz was stabbed in the head with a hunting knife during a struggle with suspect on subway platform. Even after he was hacked in the head with a hunting knife, a Brooklyn cop still managed to chase his attacker across a subway platform - shooting him twice before collapsing nearby, police said yesterday. NYPD...

    Honour ... widow Lorena holds VC at palace Queen: Always be proud of him By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence EditorMarch 08, 2007           THE Queen presented the widow of hero Para Bryan Budd with his Victoria Cross yesterday — telling her: “Always be proud of him.”  Cpl Budd, 29, died during a brave lone charge at Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan badlands.He freed up his stricken section to escape an ambush by killing three enemy at point-blank range before being gunned down himself.Widow Lorena, 23, received the cherished medal — only the second given...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2007 – President Bush presented the Medal of Honor today to retired Army Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall, 41 years after heroic actions in Vietnam the president said demonstrate the best of America and its military members. Bush praised Crandall’s heroism during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in November 1965, when he repeatedly flew into intensive enemy fire to rescue and resupply besieged 1st Cavalry Division ground troops. Crandall proved himself “a daring pilot, a devoted soldier and a self-less leader” during the first major ground battle of the war at Landing Zone X-Ray near the...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Feb. 23, 2007 – Marine Gen. Peter Pace presented a Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars here yesterday to three soldiers for heroism displayed in Iraq on Nov. 19, 2005. Pvt. Stephen C. Sanford, recently medically retired from the Army, salutes Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, Feb. 22. Sanford received the award for going above and beyond the call of duty while fighting terrorist in Iraq. Photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, USAF  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2007 – Two Afghan nationals and five American soldiers received recognition from President Bush and U.S. Central Command’s top officer for heroism in preventing a driver from carrying out a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, in January. Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, recognizes Task Force Phoenix soldiers for heroic efforts in preventing a vehicle loaded with explosives from detonating inside the front gate of Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan. From left are Army Staff Sgt. William Strobeck, Sgts. Brian Bailey and Mathew Sisson, and Spcs. Justin Carry and Linza Hampton. U.S....

TEMPLE – Just a few months earlier, Keifer Marshall Jr. had played in the Cotton Bowl for the University of Texas. His sweetheart, Sammie, faithfully wrote letters to him every day after he left school to become a Marine. Mail was slow in 1945, and Sammie had no idea the 19-year-old man to whom she wrote had been sent to the bloodiest battle in the Marine Corps' history. Marshall, who grew up in Temple and would one day become mayor of the city, was on a boat heading toward an island he'd never heard of. His leaders told him he'd...

NEW YORK — A quick-thinking commuter saved a teenager who fell on the subway tracks by pushing him down into a furrow between the rails, allowing an approaching train to pass right over them, police said. An 18-year-old man had some kind of medical problem Tuesday and fell onto the tracks, which are a few feet below platform level, police said. Wesley Autrey saw him fall, jumped down onto the tracks after him and rolled with him into the rut between the rails as a southbound train was coming in.- snip-

   Award ... medic Paul Hartley received gong, and inset, kids James and Ewan Medal for hero minefield medic By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence EditorDecember 16, 2006         A SOLDIER given the George Medal for heroism in a Taliban minefield last night revealed he REFUSED to die as his son’s first birthday was next day.  Army medic Paul Hartley, 27, sprinted into the danger zone and spent six-and-a-half hours treating six casualties who had stumbled in by mistake.One agonised squaddie had already lost a leg in the field at Kajaki, southern Afghanistan. Within an hour, five more mines...

12/8/2006 - FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFPN) -- Whether it is a meth lab in Spokane, Wash., booby trapped with grenades or an Improvised Explosive Device in Baghdad, every day brings something new for an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. On the morning of Dec. 7, two of Fairchild's EOD technicians were awarded decorations for heroism in a ceremony at the 92nd Civil Engineering Squadron's Stampede Room. Tech. Sgt. Jesus Hernandez was awarded a Bronze Star Medal and Senior Airman Amos Smith was awarded an Army Commendation Medal with a "V" device, indicating the act of heroism for which the...

FORT HOOD – Spc. Brent D. Whitten needed to get out of his vehicle as quickly as he could. He couldn't move his leg, but fire burned around him. A suicide car bomber had rammed his vehicle at some point, but Whitten didn't remember hearing a boom and guesses the impact knocked him out. Whitten, a 4th Infantry Division soldier, managed to climb out of the roof of his vehicle and roll down the front onto the street. That's where he laid for a few minutes until relief arrived and carried him to safety. After the chaos, Whitten, who serves...

FORT HOOD – Col. Dick Francey insisted that the people gathered inside the 4th Infantry Division's chapel never forget why they were there Thursday afternoon. Then, he slowly read off the 18 reasons why: Gordon. Perez. Williams. Hartman. Cain. Makowski. Granados. Raymond. Simmons. Reynolds. Paul. Lyons. Blaney. Haag. Ellis. Jarrett. Armijo. Walker. "Eighteen warriors have fallen," said Francey, the 4th Infantry's rear commander before the soldiers who were killed in Iraq, were remembered during the division's monthly memorial service. The service came during one of the bloodiest months in Iraq during where more than 70 U.S. troops have been killed....

NEW YORK (Oct. 18, 2006) -- In the fall of 1967, in the heart of the Gio Linh District of Quang Tri Province of Vietnam, a dazed and war-torn Capt. Joseph O’Brien added to the Marine Corps legacy of heroism. With dried blood, sweat and grime clinging to his wounds, O’Brien staggered to his feet and fearlessly plunged into battle against several enemy soldiers to save a captured, wounded Marine. The Bronx, N.Y. native’s gallant actions would eventually earn him a Navy Cross. In 1953, young O’Brien stepped into the ranks of the Corps as a private and was introduced...

President Bush hailed an FDNY paramedic last night at an Iftar dinner marking Islam's Ramadan holidays - calling the Brooklyn man courageous and compassionate and citing his near-death experience at Ground Zero on 9/11... "Paramedic Muhammad is a proud Muslim. He is a patriotic American."

   EXCLUSIVE    Fallen hero set for VC honour   Brave ... Cpl Bryan Budd saved his pals   By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence EditorOCTOBER 16, 2006  HERO Para Cpl Bryan Budd was cut down by a hail of Taliban bullets as he took on a group of the fanatics alone, it was revealed last night.  Full details of his extraordinary actions were described for the first time by a comrade.And it was confirmed that senior officers want the corporal’s extreme valour to be marked with a posthumous Victoria Cross.It would be only the second to be awarded in 24...

AMISH families in mournful parades of horse-drawn buggies took part in funerals today for four schoolgirl victims of a gunman who went on a sexual fantasy-fuelled killing rampage at their school. As four of the five young girls killed on Monday were laid to rest, tales of selfless heroism emerged of one victim who reportedly asked killer Charles Roberts to "shoot me first," to save her classmates. But the grief looked set to deepen, as US media reports said one critically wounded schoolgirl had been taken off life support in hospital and brought back to her spartan Pennsylvania home to...

Amish families streamed down closed roads in a mournful parade of horse-drawn buggies Thursday, to bury schoolgirl victims of the shootings which wracked their peaceable community. As four of the five young girls killed Monday were laid to rest, tales of selfless heroism emerged of one victim who reportedly asked killer Charles Roberts to "shoot me first," to save her classmates. And the grief looked set to deepen, as US media reports said one critically wounded schoolgirl had been taken off life support in hospital and brought back to her spartan Pennsylvania home to die. The reclusive Amish sect, which...

1944: Poles surrender after Warsaw uprising The Germans have crushed a rebellion in Warsaw led by the Polish Home Army. Street fighting began on 1 August as Soviet troops were heard battling on the outskirts of the Polish capital. After 63 days of struggle and little outside help, the Polish Home Army surrendered to the Germans after a ceasefire at 2200 local time yesterday. Resistance groups had used the sewers to travel from one part of the city to another and send messages. Much of the supplies that were dropped by the RAF and US Air Force landed on enemy...

Spc. Anthony Tonasket (right), a native of Kansas City, Kan., is awarded the Purple Heart, Combat Action Badge and Army Commendation Medal with a ‘V’ device for Valor by Col. James Trafton, commander, 2nd Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, 38th Divisional Support Command, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, during an awards ceremony for his actions during an attack on his convoy March 7. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Richard Phelps, 2nd Bn, 137th Inf. Regt. UPAR, 38th DISCOM, MND-B. CAMP SLAYER - It’s inevitable that some days are forever burnt into our memories, vividly etched into the mind like a slow-motion, high-quality...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2006 -- The United Service Organizations celebrated its 65th anniversary last night and honored troops from each branch of the military for heroism. Army Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester is congratulated by senior DoD leaders for receiving the 2006 USO servicemember of the year award in Washington, D.C., Sept 28. Hester is the first woman since World War II to receive the Silver Star for valor in combat. She led troops in a counterattack after an ambush, saving the lives of many of her fellow soldiers. Defense Dept. photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen  '(Click...