Six weeks after the Continental Army was formed in 1775, George Washington made a declaration that has shaped the military ever since: “We need chaplains.”
Larson was among the nearly 160,000 Allied troops who stormed the Normandy shore on June 6, 1944, surviving machine-gun fire when he landed on Omaha Beach.
Decades after Staff Sgt. William Owens' heroic actions at La Fiere Bridge, his Bronze Star was posthumously upgraded thanks to the efforts of a veteran.