Faith (December 22, 2002 – September 22, 2014) was a bipedal
dog, born with three legs; two fully developed hind legs and a
deformed front leg, which was amputated when she was seven
months old.

Many people, including veterinarians, advised that Faith be
euthanized. Instead, using a spoon with peanut butter as an
incentive, Jude taught Faith to hop. Faith began to walk on
her own.                        

Faith was given a non-commission rank of E5 Sgt. at Ft. Lewis, Washington in June 2006. She visited more than 2,300 wounded
warriors in hospitals and wards throughout the world, and was
seen by more than 2,000,000 active soldiers at bases, airports,
and ceremonies.

She wore an Army Combat Uniform jacket and would get excited
when it was pulled out of the closet, as she knew it meant she
was about to meet some soldiers.  
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On April 1, 1945, after suffering the loss of 116 planes and
damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops,
under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner
Jr., landed on the southwest coast of the Japanese island
of Okinawa, 350 miles south of Kyushu, the southern main
island of Japan.

Determined to seize Okinawa as a base of operations for
the army ground and air forces for a later assault on
mainland Japan, more than 1,300 ships converged
on the island, finally putting ashore 50,000 combat
troops.

Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
(18 July 1886 – 18 June 1945)

Buckner was among the casualties,
killed by enemy artillery fire just three
days before the Japanese surrender.

The 1952 film Okinawa starring Pat O’Brien, is one of several movies to depict this decisive episode in the history of the
war.

Fort Buckner is a small United States Army base located immediately south of Camp Foster, near Futenma, on
Okinawa, Japan.

March 13, 1852 — Frank Bellew’s cartoon, “Uncle Sam,”
made its debut in the NY Lantern Weekly.

The character’s name is attributed to Samuel Wilson, a
meat packer who supplied food to the troops during the
War of 1812. Legend has it that he conspicuously marked
“U.S.” on the packages and before long the soldiers took
to calling him “Uncle Sam.”

However, the first use in literature of the concept of the
patriot Uncle Sam was in the 1816 book, “The Adventures
of Uncle Sam in Search After His Lost Honor,” by Frederick
Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq.

Uncle Sam is mentioned as early as 1775, in the original
“Yankee Doodle” lyrics of the American Revolutionary
War.

Frank Henry Temple Bellew
(April 18, 1828 – June 29, 1888)

Samuel Wilson (September 13, 1766 – July 31, 1854)

Corporal Doss receiving the Medal of Honor from
President Harry S. Truman.

Private First Class Desmond T. Doss of Lynchburg, Virginia,
was presented the Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery
as a combat medic, the first conscientious objector in
American history to receive the nation’s highest military
award.
 

When called on by his country to fight in World War II, Doss,
a dedicated pacifist, registered as a conscientious objector.

Eventually sent to the Pacific theater of war as a medical
corpsman, Doss voluntarily put his life in the utmost peril
during the bloody Battle for Okinawa, saving dozens of lives
well beyond the call of duty.

Desmond Thomas Doss
(February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006)

The 2016 film directed by Mel Gibson focuses
on the combat experiences of Desmond Doss.

Henry Ossian Flipper (March 21, 1856 – April 26, 1940)

Flipper, born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, became the
first African American cadet to graduate from the United States
Military Academy at West Point, New New York on June 14, 1877.

After losing his commission in the Army, Henry Flipper
worked throughout Mexico and Latin America as an
assistant to the Secretary of the Interior. He retired
to Atlanta in 1931 and died of natural causes.

The United States Military Academy—the first military school
in America—was founded by Congress in 1802 for the purpose
of educating and training young men in the theory and practice
of military science.