Jan 08 , 2026
The grenade clattered onto the dirt just feet from the squad. Time slowed. Robert H. Jenkins Jr. saw the flash, the explosion waiting in his mind’s eye—and in that instant, he threw himself over hi...
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Jan 08 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely a man when he threw his body on two live grenades, saving his fellow Marines. At 17 years old, his heart beat faster than most seasoned soldiers', fueled by raw cour...
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Jan 08 , 2026
The air tore with gunfire. Smoke choked the valley. Men scrambled, pinned down by a hailstorm of bullets and rocket fire. Amid the chaos, Thomas W. Norris did the impossible: charging enemy lines n...
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Jan 08 , 2026
He came through a hailstorm of lead, unflinching, dragging his wounded platoon to safety. The roar of machine guns, the screams, the acrid smoke—every step forward was a refusal to die silent. Jame...
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Jan 08 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen years old when he turned the searing face of death into an act of salvation. Two grenades — live, deadly, screaming in the air around his chest — and without hesita...
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Jan 08 , 2026
Blood on the sands of Tientsin. A lone Marine stands, rifle steady, defying an unrelenting tide of Boxers for hours. Smoke chokes the air. Friends fall silent around him. But Sgt. Major Daniel J. D...
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