Staff Sergeant Ehlers

Walter David Ehlers (May 7, 1921 – February 20, 2014)

Ehlers was the last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor to
participate in the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War
II. He died Thursday, Feb. 20 at a veterans’ hospital in Long
Beach, Calif. His passing leaves a total of only seven surviving
World War II Medal of Honor recipients.

 
Ehlers Medal of Honor

                           
                        Sandy Kozel

                                 
                                           Sandy Kozel

U.S. Marines cheer after raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi at
Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima Statue, U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington D.C.

                                     
                                          Brian Thomas

William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is 74 today

                                            
                                       Ross Simpson