Md. Marine's Love of Outdoors and Adventure Remembered
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For  relatives and friends of Kirk Bosselmann, few things the Marine Corps corporal did surprised them.
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The first Medal of Honor awarded for combat in Afghanistan will be presented Monday to the family of a Navy SEAL from Long Island, N.Y, who gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team.
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By Tom M Miller  Editor, Times-Dispatch:  With others, I was twice privileged to visit Normandy battle sites and the nearby American cemetery holding our special heroes.  Among rows of white crosses two bear gold insignias marking graves of Medal of Honorees.
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IWO JIMA, Japan -- Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, a US search team has located two caves where its believes a Marine who filmed the iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima may have been killed 62 years ago in one of World War II's most symbolic battles.
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Army Pfc. Thomas R. Wilson was a former honor student, devoted family member and nature lover with a predilection for hiking and "messing around" in the wetlands of his native Shenandoah Valley, relatives recalled.
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Annie Linskey, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 15--He is a man whose life has been defined by racing from one emergency to the next during a two-decade career with the Baltimore City Fire Department and with his community volunteer fire company.
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By Rona Marech, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 7--ROCKVILLE -- Pictures taken before Navy Capt. Lisa M. Nowak's space shuttle mission show her smiling and confident in an orange jumpsuit, with wavy tresses framing her face and an American flag and a model rocket ship behind her.
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LANDSTUHL, Germany A US Marine who was wounded in the battle for Fallujah says the fighting is intense -- &quot;house to house&quot; and &quot;rooftop to rooftop.
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President Bush gives a salute as he walks to his limousine at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004 after his annual physical.
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Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor today "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" while outnumbered by Taliban fighters in a June 2005 battle high in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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Friends of Royal Welsh Corporal Paul Joszko, pay tribute to a "character" who loved his Army career.
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Wounded and locked in a harrowing gunfight deep in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains, Navy SEAL Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson laid down covering fire so a teammate could escape -- an act of heroism for which Axelson was yesterday posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, the service's...
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NEW CARROLLTON, Md. -- Mudafer al-Ziyadi, an Iraqi-American from Weymouth, endured a 10-hour van ride and a snowstorm Saturday night because he wanted to send a message to President Bush through a ballot box.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California  - A U.S. Marine Corps prosecutor asked a jury on Monday to convict a Marine corporal for his role in the killing last year of a 52-year-old Iraqi grandfather in the town of Hamdania.
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By BILL GEROUX  A 24-year-old Marine intelligence specialist from Virginia Beach was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday in Iraq's violent Anbar province, the Defense Department announced yesterday.  Cpl. Joshua C.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Spread across several tables in a vast warehouse here are the pieces of one soldier's life.
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By J. Scott Trubey  A recent re-enlistment ceremony for a Grovetown sailor and more than a dozen shipmates aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was an out-of-this-world experience.