Donald K. Ross, the first World War II recipient of the Medal of Honor, died on Wednesday.
Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey, one of America's most daring submarine commanders of World War II and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, died Thursday in Annapolis, Md .He was 93.
Col. James L. Stone, who as an Army platoon leader on a desolate hilltop facing overwhelming Chinese forces during the Korean War rallied his men, then stayed behind to cover their retreat despite being wounded three times, actions for which he earned the Medal of Honor, died on Friday at his home in Arlington, Tex.
Col. Bud Day, an Air Force fighter pilot who was shot down in the Vietnam War, imprisoned with John McCain in the notorious "Hanoi Hilton" and defiantly endured more than five years of brutality without divulging sensitive information to his captors, earning him the Medal of Honor, died on Saturday in Shalimar, Fla.
Leonard Karlin, who helped conceive, develop and run the George Polk Awards, one of journalism's highest honors, died on Friday at a hospice in the Bronx.
Edward W. "Ted" Tayler, the Lionel Trilling Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and special lecturer in English and comparative literature, whose transformative lectures on Shakespeare and Milton inspired thousands of students and earned him the University's highest honors, died on April 23 , 2018
Eiko Ishioka, a designer who brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film and theater, album covers, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy and a string of other honors, died on Saturday in Tokyo.
Marilyn Gunnell, a former nurse and private investigator who was active in the community for roughly 25 years and received several honors, died Jan . 18at Glendale Adventist Medical Center.
Putting down the Latina from the Bronx, then, is just the latest illustration of the time honored die hard resistance to change and inclusion.
