Fallen Marine’s family receives his Navy Cross

CAMP PENDLETON – Generations of Marines will be reminded how, on Aug. 26, 2009, Lance Cpl. Donald J. Hogan, sacrificed his life to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan to save others in his unit. In a ceremony Tuesday at Camp Pendleton, the Navy and...

MILITARY: Heroic Marine now 'in the company of the finest and bravest'

Lance Cpl. Donald J. Hogan was remembered Tuesday as an exceptionally upbeat and selfless young man whose valor in detecting a roadside bomb and using his body to shield fellow Marines from the blast claimed his life at age 20.