Kentucky Honor Guard helps put to rest forgotten Medal of Honor recipient
Soldiers with the Kentucky National Guard’s Honor Guard stand ready for the twenty-one-gun salute during the ceremony of a Medal of Honor recipient who was buried at Highland Cemetery in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky Nov. 4, 2023. The MoH recipient was U.S. Army Sgt. John F. Rowalt, of Bellville, Ohio, who had served during the Indian Wars before contracting smallpox and dying around the age of 28 in an unmarked grave which went 148-years before being found and recognized. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Crane)