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Neil Roberts grew up in the farmlands of Yolo County, CA, one of 12 children, including a twin brother named Galen. Neighbors and friends remember him growing up as someone who didn’t let himself get bogged down by the negative...
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Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman spent his last day on earth 11,000 feet up a snowy mountain called Takur Ghar in Afghanistan, during one of the deadliest early skirmishes in the war. On March 4, 2002, John and a...
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Sgt. Bradley S. Crose joined the Army in June,1998 two weeks after his high school graduation. Four years later in 2002 as an Army Ranger, he was assigned to the 1st Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, deployed to Afghanistan. Brad...
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In 1970, Richard and Roseann Svitak spent the spring waiting for the birth of their first and only child, Philip. They waited. And waited.Phil wasn't ready at nine months. He wasn't ready the next week. Or the next."My wife carried...
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Twenty-six-year-old Jason Cunningham had only been a pararescue jumper for eight months when he flew out for his first combat mission. It was also to be his last. Air Force Senior Airman Jason D. Cunningham was one of seven American...
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