Though he had landed on the beaches of Normandy and been
wounded in battle fighting with the U.S. Army, Staff Sergeant
Marcario García was not yet a U.S. citizen when President
Harry S. Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor on August
23, 1945. García became the first Mexican national to receive
the American military’s highest honor.

Marcario García  (January 20, 1920 – December 24, 1972)

SANDY KOZEL

Rudolph Valentino 
(nicknamed The Latin Lover)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

1922

Excessive drought in Texas dried up a river in Dinosaur
Valley State Park, exposing new dinosaur tracks that
were previously filled with sediment.

(Fox News) – The drought of 2022 that has ravaged Texas
throughout the summer has helped uncover some
prehistoric treasures.

According to Dinosaur Velley State Park, The tracks date
from around 113 million years ago.

The tracks were found in a dried up river bed that is normally
under water and covered with mud. But because of the drought,
the river has dried up significantly in recent weeks to unveil the
massive tracks.

Acrocanthosaurus was one of the largest theropods, with the
largest specimen reaching 36 feet long and weighing
approximately 3.6–4.4 metric tons.

Rain in the area is expected to cover those tracks up again in
the coming days.

Jerry Ivan Allison (August 31, 1939 – August 22, 2022)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jerry Allison, who played to screaming crowds as a member of the 1950s rock band Buddy
Holly and the Crickets and co-wrote some of their biggest hits,
died Monday.

Allison’s writing contributions included co-penning “That’ll Be
the Day” and “Peggy Sue.” He said he also co-wrote “Not Fade
Away” with Holly but went uncredited, due to the producer
allegedly switching his own name in instead.

From left: Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin, and Buddy Holly.

Virginia Ann Marie Patton Moss
(June 25, 1925 – August 18, 2022)

(Fox News) – The last surviving adult cast member of Frank Capra’s classic holiday film It’s a Wonderful  Life, Virginia Moss passed
away on August 18th at an assisted living facility in Albany, GA.
at age 97.

Moss starred in the 1946 film as Ruth Dakin Bailey, the wife of Harry Bailey (Todd Karns) and the sister-in-law of the main character
George Bailey, portrayed by James Stewart. Moss was the last
living adult actor who had worked on the film, though several
It’s a Wonderful Life actors who appeared in the film as children
are still alive, such as Karolyn Grimes, who shared a tribute to
Moss on her personal Facebook page.

Moss is kissed by James Stewart from It’s a Wonderful Life.