Honoring Vets

Faculty and students at UC Riverside are launching a sweeping initiative that encourages K-12 students to document the histories of Veterans interred at Riverside National Cemetery.

For Detrick, the events of the day took an emotional toll, resurfacing memories he’d rather forget of his time in Afghanistan.

Corda Hestle was only 12 years old when her father’s F-105 Thunderchief was shot down, while leading a strike mission against surface-to-air missiles sites in North Vietnam.

The 2018 Paralympic Winter Games begin March 9 in PyeongChang with 18 military Veterans among the 74 athletes representing Team USA.

VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System hosted a […]

Separating the service member, soldier and Veteran from the politics of the war is the true, lasting legacy of Vietnam. And it starts with a much appreciated “thank you for your service.”

Pfc. Arnold Harrison, a Detroit teenager who went missing in action in 1943 during the Battle of Tarawa in World War II, is finally home, near his family.

In 1878 Maj. George W. Ford, a "Buffalo soldier" of the reorganized Army after the Civil War, became one of the first African-Americans appointed as superintendent of a national cemetery.

Nearly 700,000 men and women served in the Persian Gulf during Desert Shield and Desert Storm 27 years ago. Since then, VA researchers have studied conditions affecting Gulf War Veterans and are identifying the best ways to diagnose and treat them.

The California-based group was created by two friends in 2006 to recognize, remember and honor Veterans and those that will never return.

As a commemorative partner, VA joins nearly 10,000 organizations across the Nation supporting the Department of Defense in this mission to honor and thank our Vietnam Veterans.

The Winter Olympics are underway and this year 244 members of Team USA are competing. Nine of them are United States active-duty service members.