Recipients

Timothy Grogan graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1963. He retired in 1993 as a U.S. Army Brigadier General.

William Benefield’s unit, the 77th Engineer Combat Company, was the last all-Black combat unit of the U.S. Army to engage an enemy of the United…

Michael Ryan enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 and was called to active duty in 1940 and commissioned in the Marine Corps. During…

Lynn Meredith Mahannah, one of Martin’s two older brothers, served in the U.S. Army Air Forces and was himself killed in action in 1945.