Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday morning will honor U.S. Army Ranger veterans who served in World War II with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tammy

Members of the public and dozens of lawmakers gathered Thursday at Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill as Congressional Gold Medals were awarded to five Army Rangers who served in World War II.

A Congressional Gold Medal ceremony was scheduled for Thursday at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Capitol. “This band of brothers is so deserving, and frankly this day is long overdue.

Nearly 80 years after scaling barbed wire fences in Nazi-occupied Poland and jumping from moving trains in search of freedom during WWII, Coronado resident Col. James J. Larkin was posthumously