Heroes (Page 6)

"Hero" isn't exclusively American. We Are The Mighty celebrated anyone who defines the word, from Medal of Honor recipients to everyday acts of courage that may never make headlines... anywhere else.

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CIA’s heroic Gary Schroen, who led first team into Afghanistan days after 9/11, dies at 80

By Miguel Ortiz

This WWII fighter pilot ‘piggy-backed’ his wingman home after he was shot down

By James Elphick

Why the American military created the Silver Star, Navy Cross and other medals for valor

By Harold C. Hutchison

The 54th Massachusetts ‘Glory’ Memorial was rededicated after it was vandalized

By Miguel Ortiz

This pilot crashed his plane into the guns that shot him down

A Medal of Honor recipient tore his way through Vietnam while being stalked by a tiger

This Medal of Honor citation reads like an action movie plot

The LT Michael P. Murphy Navy SEAL Museum is now open in New York

By Miguel Ortiz

The ‘last casualty of the Civil War’ died of his wounds in 1914

Why the enemy should have brought a battalion to kill this soldier

By Blake Stilwell

The unknown story of Air Force Medal of Honor recipient Richard L. Etchberger

The massive SAS legend who made it through selection. Twice.

Why World War I pilot Eddie Rickenbacker is such a legendary hero

These are the only father-son pairs to receive Medals of Honor

9 of the most legendary heroes in US Army history

Vastly outnumbered, these Irish troops survived a 5-day siege

6 wild facts about the deadly creator of SEAL Team Six

By Blake Stilwell

Legends about the most decorated Marine in US history

By Zackry Colston

Meet the 4 heroes who earned Medals of Honor for heroism on D-Day

How the US military pays tribute to our fallen heroes

How two Delta Force snipers earned the Medal of Honor in Somalia

This is how Eddie Rickenbacker earned 7 service crosses and the Medal of Honor

By James Elphick

The stunning combat history of the Tuskegee Airmen

Project 33 Memorial Foundation honors fallen Green Beret

By Jessica Manfre

This Special Forces soldier gave his life to save his allies

These Army Rangers killed 25 enemies and saved their men in a 6-hour firefight

Decorated war hero Justin Constantine dies; a nation mourns

By Jessica Manfre

These 6 wounded troops became war heroes after losing limbs

These 6 heroes show that bravery happens everywhere in the military

This Coast Guard commander returned to an ambush to save Navy operators

This Marine recruiter scaled a tree at 2 a.m. to save a man’s life

Ukrainian soldier who told Russian warship ‘go f— yourself’ awarded medal

By Miguel Ortiz

The Anglo-Saxon noble and resistance fighter who inspired ‘Robin Hood’

Israeli wrestlers were the heroes of the 1972 Munich Massacre

This Army medic killed over a dozen insurgents in just 8 days

This ‘El Sal’ soldier kicked *ss with just a switchblade

By Blake Stilwell

7 surprising facts about Bob Hope

By Blake Stilwell

Heroes from Paris terrorist attack featured in new season of ‘The Amazing Race’

By Jessica Manfre

This PJ is the most decorated enlisted airman in history

By Blake Stilwell

How this heroic sailor earned 12 medals for valor

America’s highest-scoring ace once killed a crocodile with his fighter plane

By Miguel Ortiz

The first Native American woman to die in combat was also the first female military death of the Iraq War

By Jacqlyn Cope

This chaplain earned the Silver Star saving 12 sailors at Pearl Harbor

By Miguel Ortiz

Is this the Most Patriotic Poem Ever?

By Tim Kirkpatrick

8 things you never knew about the Purple Heart Medal

By Sharon Brandwein

This Union Medal of Honor recipient was the most wounded soldier of the Civil War

The untold story of the Navy SEAL and canine hero who caught Bin Laden

The incredible, untold story of 75th Ranger Regiment’s search and rescue of the ‘Lone Survivor’

By Jessica Manfre

These 3 snipers had more kills than Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam

By Harold C. Hutchison

Mighty Talks: MOH Recipients MSG Matt Williams and SSG Ronald Shurer

By Dustin Damon

How this World War I soldier earned the Medal of Honor in a mustard gas attack

By Blake Stilwell

French Marines ended a hostage crisis with a bayonet charge

By Blake Stilwell

The first Muslim Green Beret was also in Iran’s Special Forces

By Blake Stilwell

Canadians honor their fallen troops by lining the ‘Highway of Heroes’

By Blake Stilwell

This wounded airman saved his team (with an A-10’s help)

By Blake Stilwell

This Corpsman saved his Marines despite being shot 4 times

By Tim Kirkpatrick

6 times US troops killed their way out of enemy ambushes

6 things you didn’t know about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

By Tim Kirkpatrick

How an illegal immigrant was drafted and earned the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

These badass Marines held off an entire Viet Cong battalion

By James Elphick

This legendary Ranger will receive the Medal of Honor at 94

By Miguel Ortiz

What Louie Zamperini Meant To Angelina Jolie

This ‘Marine’s Marine’ was best known for his deadly skill with a mortar tube

America’s ‘most decorated woman’ fought from the Philippines to Korea