Medal of Honor Archives

Opinion – Al Cross: Three heroes, 80 years ago this week, echo today

January 22, 2025January 21, 20253

Eighty years ago this week, on successive days a few miles apart in eastern France, three rural Americans risked their…

June 23, 2024June 23, 20240

Willie Mays playing stickball in Harlem in 1954. Bettmann/Getty Images By Lincoln Mitchell Columbia University In 1959, when Soviet Premier…

January 9, 2024January 8, 20240

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Growing up, I recall passing by Woodfill Elementary School on Alexandria Pike, in Ft. Thomas…

September 7, 2021September 6, 20210

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Throughout its history, Kentucky has played an important part in America’s military war efforts. The…

May 5, 2021May 4, 20210

By Mark Maynard Kentucky Today WURTLAND, Ky. (KT) – Ernie West, a bona fide war hero who fought in Korea…

May 21, 2020May 20, 20200

As Americans honor patriotic sacrifice on Memorial Day, KET will premiere the story of a Kentucky soldier who repeatedly put…

November 14, 2018November 13, 20180

Gov. Matt Bevin and Mrs. Pauline Conner today unveiled a new Medal of Honor plaque at the Kentucky State Capitol…

August 6, 2018August 6, 20180

When I moved to Boone County many years ago (1977), I had heard of Sgt. Charles ‘Chalkie’ Fleek being killed…

June 20, 2018June 19, 20180

By Tom Latek Kentucky Today A highly decorated and heroic Kentucky soldier will posthumously be awarded the Medal of Honor…

May 3, 2018May 2, 20180

World War I hero Sgt. Willie Sandlin, who three times charged single-handedly into German machine gun emplacements to neutralize 24…

November 11, 2016November 11, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist “The most modest hero of the world war” is buried in Louisville’s Zachary Taylor National…