But while the Trump administration may no longer want to remember these Native heroes, one such soldier was famously immortalised in the 1962 Peter La Farge song ‘The Ballad of Ira Hayes’. The ...

When his company was ordered to take a hill during the Korean War's Operation Ripper, Sfc. Nelson Brittin led the way.

In one of March’s most-read articles, the musician told of his upbringing in Offaly, and then Dublin, along with his regrets about never saying goodbye to his wife or his father Johnny McEvoy.

Soldiers of the Army's 3rd Battalion ... Nelson Brittin experienced the sort of savage hill fighting that became the norm for the rest of the Korean War. When his company was ordered to take ...

Nelson Brittin experienced the sort of savage hill fighting that became the norm ... In his sustained and driving action, he had killed 20 enemy soldiers and destroyed four automatic weapons ...

and Dante Taitano, 21, of Dededo, Guam. An administration official told The Hill the families of the fallen soldiers requested no media be present at the transfer and that the White House is ...

(The Hill) — A fourth American soldier who went missing after their vehicle became submerged in a bog during training in the country was found dead Tuesday, the White House announced.