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In April 1917 the United States declared war on Germany, and the following month the 15th New York reported to Camp Peekskill, New York, for a short course of rifle training. The regiment was officially mustered into federal service in July and ordered to Camp Whitman, outside of Poughkeepsie, New York, for basic training. It soon became clear to Hayward, however, that the 15th would be held apart from the rest of the army. When the so-called “Rainbow Division,” a collection of National Guard units assembled from more than two dozen states, marched down Fifth Avenue in a farewell parade,

Honoring heroes of courage, sacrifice, and faith.

He was Hulk Hogan before Hulk Hogan. He leapt to the big screen before it was the sporting standard. And for his final act? He worked in the shadows to topple Hitler.

Fox News Digital spoke to Robert Dalessandro of the American Battle Monuments Commission; this group honors the memory of 200,000 men and women killed in wars overseas or missing in action.

Poplar Bluff — Before his death in 2013, Mary Bader's father, Francis Auld, asked her to make a promise she's stood by to this day. "He said 'promise me something; that when you turn 55, you'll do these games,'" Bader, a U.S. Army OIF/OEF Veteran, recalls. Auld was talking about the National Veterans Golden Age Games, where a year before, at 83 years of age, he competed for the first and only time. It was an experience he described to his daughter as "one of the best things that has ever happened to me." Since that pivotal promise, Bader has compe...