Jeremy Hubbard

3 weeks ago | kdvr.com | Jeremy Hubbard

DENVER (KDVR) — Hector M. Flores served, fought and was wounded in Europe after the D-Day invasion during World War II. But when he returned to Colorado, he didn’t receive a hero’s welcome. Now, a group called Leadership Veteran is trying to change that. They dedicated a park bench to the late Army sergeant on Friday, 81 years after the Normandy invasion that turned the tide of the war, and led to an allied victory.

3 weeks ago | kdvr.com | Jeremy Hubbard

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — The outfit he wore as a kid should have been a dead giveaway. “See this, see this kid right here? That’s you? That’s me,” Len Deemer said, pointing to a tattered picture from his childhood, showing him wearing a sailor’s uniform. He was destined for a life at sea. Deemer spent 33 years in the United States Navy, serving during the Korean, Vietnam and Cold Wars.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jeremy Hubbard

DENVER (KDVR) — It is a big week for Emanuel Walker. He’s graduating from college at MSU Denver on Friday. The pomp and circumstance seemed impossible just a few years ago, considering what he’s been through. “I had to be real with myself and say, hey, if I don’t make it in this world, no one’s going to come save me,” Walked told FOX31.

1 month ago | kdvr.com | Jeremy Hubbard

DENVER (KDVR) — It is a big week for Emanuel Walker. He’s graduating from college at MSU Denver on Friday. The pomp and circumstance seemed impossible just a few years ago, considering what he’s been through. “I had to be real with myself and say, hey, if I don’t make it in this world, no one’s going to come save me,” Walked told FOX31. He immigrated to America with his mom when he was just four years old, fleeing their native Liberia in West Africa, a country torn apart by civil war in the 1990s.

1 month ago | yourbasin.com | Jeremy Hubbard

(NEXSTAR) – Some might recognize LeAnn Thieman from a 50-year-old photo of the longtime nurse crowded into the back of a van in Vietnam, surrounded by 22 orphans spread across the car seats and floorboards. It was part of a desperate mission to get babies out of that country before the end of the Vietnam War. Thieman spent five days in Vietnam, but her tale of tragedy and heroism still serves as a reminder of the harrowing effort to give these children a new chance at life.