Famous Veterans

Kurt Chew-Een Lee yelled orders at the enemy in Mandarin during the Korean War to sow confusion. It worked.

Joe Cardona was with the Patriots in their Super Bowl wins over the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams.

Duke Snider was one of the most vaunted baseball players in history, but he shipped out to the Pacific War first.

Brooks Robinson was a leader for the Baltimore Orioles and the Arkansas National Guard.

In a life that spanned nearly a century, Ernest Borgnine was known as a consummate character actor -- and also was part of U...

He was among 200 surviving Montford Point Marines to be honored for their service in 2012.

Chuck Norris' keyboard doesn't have an escape key -- no one escapes from Chuck Norris.

His father kept to himself the grim details of what he had experienced in Vietnam and what he had done in combat to survive.

By the war's end, he had nine confirmed kills, including three Japanese Zeros in one day during a dogfight.

The three-time Grammy award winner joined the Navy at age 17 and served for nine years as an aviation mechanic.