11Leonard Matlovich
The tombstone of U.S. Air Force veteran and gay rights activist Leonard Matlovich states this: "When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
12US veterans headstone
US veterans can have Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor, engraved in their headstones as a religious symbol.
13Daniel F. Bakeman
Daniel F. Bakeman, the alleged last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary War also had the longest recorded marriage at 91 years, 12 days: The only documented marriage to have broken the 90-year anniversary mark.
14Harry Wilhelm
Harry Wilhelm was an unemployed World War 1 veteran who memorized the entire US Constitution during the Great Depression. Representative Sol Bloom bet he couldn’t recite it perfectly. When Wilhelm proved him wrong, Bloom immediately gave him a job.
15Shawn Nelson
A US Army veteran named Shawn Nelson became severely depressed after his wife filed divorce, both parents died of cancer, his plumbing equipment got stolen, income stopped, utilities cut off and his house went into foreclosure. He stole a tank from the armory, went on a rampage on the streets destroying cars and was finally shot and killed.
16James Stewart
James Stewart is the highest-ranking actor in military history (Brigadier General). He was World War 2 and Vietnam War Veteran and Licensed Commercial Pilot. In 1996, he was due to have the battery in his pacemaker changed but opted not to, preferring to let things happen naturally.
17Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman was a U.S. Civil War veteran and the first person to claim land under the Homestead Act. Later in life, he brought up and won a landmark separation of church and state case against a teacher who was evangelizing to her students with permission from the school board.
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18USPS
The United States Postal Service is the single largest employer of veterans (22% of the postal workforce) and nearly a third of the veterans it employs are disabled.
19Dakota Meyer
When Dakota Meyer was contacted to arrange a time to inform him that his case for the Medal of Honor had been approved, the caller was told that Meyer was working at his construction job and they were asked to call again during his lunch break. Later when a White House staffer contacted Meyer again to arrange the ceremony, Meyer asked if he could have a beer with the President Obama. He received an invitation to the White House for the afternoon before the ceremony.
20Filip Konowal
Filip Konowal, a Canadian World War 1 veteran, and Victoria Cross recipient, upon discovering that a bootlegger had viciously beaten a friend of his, disarmed the man and stabbed him to death. Konowal later told police: "I've killed fifty-two of them, that makes the fifty-third."
