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  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Rodolfo Hernández

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Rodolfo Hernández

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Rodolfo Hernández. Hernández served as a paratrooper during the Korean War.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Walter E. Hughes

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Walter E. Hughes

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Walter E. Hughes, who served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin, a 100 year old who parachuted in the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Stanley C. Ashford

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Stanley C. Ashford

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Stanley C. Ashford, who served as a paratrooper and senior noncommissioned officer.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Tom Rice

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Tom Rice

    On National Airborne Day, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Tom Rice, a World War II paratrooper who landed in Normandy on D-Day.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Roger Dale Davis

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Roger Dale Davis

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Roger Dale Davis, who served with the 101st Airborne Division and later became an Indiana Supreme Court justice.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Marine Veteran Samuel Franklin Hartman

    #VeteranOfTheDay Marine Veteran Samuel Franklin Hartman

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Samuel Franklin Hartman, who served in the Pacific during World War II from 1942 to 1945.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Marine Corps Veteran Dwright Fowler-Davis

    #VeteranOfTheDay Marine Corps Veteran Dwright Fowler-Davis

    Dwright Fowler-Davis enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1998 and [...]

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Dan Inosanto

    #VeteranOfTheDay Dan Inosanto

    Army Veteran Dan Inosanto is a martial arts expert who trained with Bruce Lee.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Ryan Taylor

    #VeteranOfTheDay Ryan Taylor

    Army Veteran Ryan Taylor served in the Iraq War and was a member of unit awarded the Presidential Unit Citation.

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