Joe Lopez first assignment was with the 21st Infantry Brigade, 24th Infantry Division in Germany he was reassigned to the 327th Airborne Infantry.
In April, 1945, James Free and other POWs from Stalag 17-B were relocated. They marched more than 280 miles in 18 days to a camp outside Braunau, Austria.
Parrish Fitts served 10 years active duty and 10 years with the Hawaii National Guard. He deployed in support of Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
During his nine years of service in the U.S. Coast Guard, Christian Pina completed more than 250 search and rescue missions.
Carl joined the military when he was 18 years old. He was placed in South Korea and witnessed some of the most intense fighting.
Voron Baughan went to Biak Island, New Guinea where he was assigned to the 90th Bomb Group Heavy with the 321st Bomb Squadron.
In 1943, Joseph Galano left his junior year at Fordham College, New York City when he was drafted into the Army during World War II.
Mahdi militia was attempting take over a town, so Luis Almaguer and his unit were working to aid the Governor of Najafn in recovering & rebuilding the town.
Michael Geary served in the Army. He was moved from an airborne unit to an infantry unit and deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in 2002.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Joseph Louis Vazquez. He served during the Gulf War from 1987 to 1991 in support of Operation Desert Storm.
Samuel Tom Holiday went on to join the group of Navajo Code Talkers who used a communication code enemies could not decipher.
Samuel Aprea enlisted in the Navy at the Recruiting Station in Boston, at the age of 17; after his brother-in-law was killed in action in Italy.