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Career Army nurse Maginia held many high-ranking positions during her 15 years of service before retiring at the rank of major.

Army Air Corps Veteran Arthur Saunders earned the Congressional Gold Medal when Congress gave recognition to the Tuskegee Airmen in 2007.

On September 29, 1918, while fighting in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I, Perry Loyd was wounded in action.

Guion Bluford was selected along with 35 others, including the first women astronauts, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Alexander Jefferson served with the Red Tail, 332nd Fight Group, 301st Fighter Squadron as a P-51 fighter pilot in Ramitelli, Italy.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Claudette Williams. Claudette served during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Richard Clark was deployed to Vietnam and was sent to Quang Tri province, 10 miles south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.

Eventually reaching Bastogne, Belgium, Morris Weiner and the 16th Infantry Regiment fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.

During his time in Vietnam, Huey Adams was tasked with patrolling Long Binh and Saigon where he would come under sporadic sniper fire.

On November 27th, 2018, while working in a joint operation with Afghan forces in Ghazni Province, Andrew and two other soldiers were killed in an IED attack.

Robert Bendl was sent to Pleiku, South Vietnam and assigned to the Headquarters Division Artillery, 4th Infantry Division.

Army Airborne Veteran Leroy Quintana served in Vietnam before becoming a critically acclaimed poet.