A 103-year-old WWII veteran from Poplar Bluff, Clemens Deken, was honored with the VA's Centenarian Award at John J. Pershing ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

It’s been more than 80 years, but when Kenneth “K.B.” Smith closes his eyes, he can still see some of the faces of the men ...

Beth Ewing describes herself as a history nerd. That’s good because she teaches history in the Daviess County school system. Ewing recently ran across a program of the National Park Service to ...

Don Tietz didn’t start sharing stories about his service during World War II until about five years ago, said Doreen Juckel, ...

John B. Goodenough, a former soldier, was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping create the lithium-ion battery, used today in a ...