Muhammad Ali's refusal to sign his Vietnam-era military draft card upended the boxing champ's life and added a powerful voice to the anti-war movement.
Larson was among the nearly 160,000 Allied troops who stormed the Normandy shore on June 6, 1944, surviving machine-gun fire when he landed on Omaha Beach.
Decades after Staff Sgt. William Owens' heroic actions at La Fiere Bridge, his Bronze Star was posthumously upgraded thanks to the efforts of a veteran.