Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Tehran, February 7, 2025. Office of the Iranian supreme leader via AP

Trump Awards Medal of Honor to WWII

Veteran Who Defied the Nazis To Save Jewish American POWs

When ordered to single out Jewish soldiers for certain death, Master Sergeant Rodrick Edmonds told a Nazi officer: ‘We are all Jews here.’

Chris Edmonds, son of Master Sergeant Roderick (Roddie) W. Edmonds, U.S. Army, is presented with his father’s Medal of Honor by President Trump during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 2, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images