Reaching for Rescue, Vietnam. 1968

Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950s

The 1913 Gettysburg reunion of 53,407 American Civil War vetererns of the Battle of Gettysburgs 50th anniversary shake hands

91 Year Old Civil War Veteran Samuel Johnson at Memorial Day Parade Wilmington, DE 1941

WWI veteran assists two Civil War veterans, 1922

Two Civil War veterans from both sides shake hands at Gettysburg -1913

Out of the approx. 750,000 soldiers that fought for the South, these were the last three surviving Confederate Civil War veterans. Photo taken in 1951

Harlem Hellfighters Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, 15th N.Y. National Guard Regiment who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, WWI -1919

American soldiers returning from WWI on the USS Agamemnon, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1918

Christmas truce between Britain and Germany WW1, 1914

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses paratroopers on June 5th, the night before D-Day, WWII, 1944

American Paratroopers about to jump into Normandy, June 6th, 1944

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, FR. D-Day. June 6th, 1944

D-Day June 6th, 1944

Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles Beach in Normandy, on June 6th, 1944

Soldier struggling to survive the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, Omaha Beach, June 6th, 1944

American soldier taking down a sign from a street named after Adolf Hitler in 1945

American soldier standing in the rubble of The Mounument to the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig Germany, 1945

African American soldier looks pleased to guard captured Nazi German soldiers. April 1945

Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie moves to comfort a stricken comrade after a fierce firefight for Hill 484 during the Vietnam War, 1966

The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came. 40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965

Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. March 1965

Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968

Pinned down by gun fire, a U.S. medic looks over a wounded comrade, Phu Loi, South Vietnam, 1966

Fallen soldier being raised to helicopter in Vietnam War 1966

PFC Kyle Hockenberry who lost both legs and his left arm in an IED explosion

Fallen Soldiers Returning Home

Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq.

Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.