Army Col. Ralph Puckett, Medal of Honor recipient and Ranger legend, dies at 97Retired Army Col. Ralph Puckett, an Army Ranger who received the Medal of Honor for lifesaving heroics in the Korean War and the Distinguished Service Cross fighting in Vietnam, died Monday. He was 97.
Joe Brennan, Democratic former governor of Maine and US congressman, dies at 89Army veteran and Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his working-class views in a political career that included two terms as Maine’s governor and two terms in the U.S. House, died Friday evening at his home in Portland. He was 89.