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This week’s Honoring Veterans Spotlight honors the service of Army Veteran Harry R. Truman, who served in Europe.

Wilburn Rowden just celebrated his 100th birthday. In World War II, he was a radio operator crewman on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.

My grandfather, Thomas Purinton, enlisted in the Navy at age 16 in 1899 and was assigned to the square-rigger USS Essex, and my Massachusetts ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, so I was favorably disposed to military service. When I was a second-year medical student in 1971, one of my colleagues was accepted into the Medical Osteopathic Scholarship Program, which is the Department of Defense program to recruit future physicians.

During National Black History Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Harry Brooks Jr., the sixth Black general flag officer in the Army.

On July 15, 2021, at 12 noon (EST), the Japanese American Veterans Association (JAVA) will commemorate the second annual Day of Affirmation at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. This date marks the 75th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman’s review of the returning 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT) on the White House Ellipse on July 15, 1946.

Truman VA offers Veteran patients a new robotic-assisted, minimally invasive intervention for acquiring diagnostic biopsies of the lung. Allows pulmonologists to navigate farther for precise biopsies.

Husband and wife Army Veterans Laureen and Jonathan Crews were the 10,000th and 10,001st Veterans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Harry Truman Veterans’ Hospital, now vaccinating 2000 weekly.

Robert Luebbert never mentioned he was a Vietnam Veteran until his treatment at Harry Truman VA re-instilled a sense of pride in his service.

75 years ago, on Jan. 3,1946, President Harry Truman signed a law establishing VHA’s predecessor, the Department of Medicine and Surgery within VA, ushering in a new era of Veteran’s health care.

Director of VA’s Blind Rehabilitation Service Harry Truman signed a presidential order in 1947 turning the military’s blind rehabilitation training of Servicemembers over to the VA, as a part of preparing the nation for post-war adjustment. Hines VA Hospital in Chicago was selected as the first center. Today, VA supports 13 inpatient blind rehabilitation centers across the US. These centers provide a breadth and depth of intensive and supportive care that restores abilities of Veterans and Servicemembers to achieve their independence, support their families, care for their homes, and integrate into their communities.

Today’s America250 and #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Wade Haislip, who served as a commander in World War II and later as vice chief of staff of the Army.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Benjamin O. Davis Sr., who was the first African American to be promoted a brigadier general in the American military.