February 18, 2026 - On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation of coalition forces from 34 nations to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. When the war ended on February 28, 1991, 148 Americans had died in battle.

Private Denzil Gladys Harvey Taft
United States Army, World War II
Women’s Army Air Corps - WAAC

PFC Robert Owen Yearwood
United States Army, World War I
Company C, 142ND Machine Gun Battalion, 39th Division

December 3, 2025 - National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which led to the United States declaring war on Japan the next day and thus entering World War II.

Sergeant James Elvie Pate
United States Army - World War II – Killed In Action
Company G – 358 Infantry Regiment – 90 Infantry Division