WBIR Medal of Honor Vignette: Overview
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WBIR Medal of Honor Vignette: Calvin J. Ward
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‘Gold Star’ Mom
Kim Harrison has a motto that helps her face each day, borrowed from Maya Angelou: “Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, ‘I have fallen, but I will get up.’” A dedicated administrative specialist for the Department of […]
Walter P. Renner
Walter P. Renner was born 31 December 1921 in Greene County, Tennessee. His parents were Blaine Thomas Renner and Amita Annie Keys. He enlisted 5 December 1942 and died of wounds 21 December 1944. Buried St. James Cemetery, Greeneville, TN Private First Class 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division
The Faces of Margraten
With the seventieth anniversary of the American War Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, Netherlands, this November, there is a new project called The Faces of Margraten. Through this project we aim to give a face to as many soldiers buried or memorialized there as possible by decorating their graves with a personal photo. In co-operation with […]
Memorial Day “Reading of the Names”
Each Memorial Day Monday, the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association honors and remembers all those who made the ultimate sacrifice at the the annual ” Reading of the Names”. Beginning at sunrise, more than one hundred volunteers, including Gold Star family members, veterans, active duty, guard and reserve service members, local community leaders, students and friends and […]
National Medal of Honor Convention Coming to Knoxville
The National Medal of Honor Convention will be held in Knoxville September 10-13.
Medal of Honor Recipients Visit the Memorial
4th Annual Medal of Honor Evening
Monday, May 5, 2014 at the Historic Foundry Building Honoring Medal of Honor recipient Private Calvin J. Ward, WWI Social Hour begins at 5:30 pm, and dinner begins at 6:30 Calvin J. Ward, a Greene County resident, was the most highly decorated soldier in WWI — yet, sadly, few people outside of Morristown and Greene […]
The Medal of Honor: A History
Knoxville Premiere Screening · Riviera Stadium 8 Theatre Monday, March 31, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. Benefiting the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial The Knoxville Medal of Honor Convention commissioned a 47-minute documentary, The Medal of Honor: A History. The documentary details, for the first time in history, the colorful story of the Medal’s rough and tumble beginnings […]
