Honoring Vets

Ira L. Walton was making ladies hats in Waco, Texas, […]

Project Hope allows Veterans to receive adaptive golf lessons from local professionals. Now, in the fifth year in Battle Creek, Project Hope has helped many Veterans in their Recovery.

Since the program began over 70 years ago, more than 3,000 Blue Star markers of all three types have been dedicated across the country, including markers in all nine national cemeteries in the state of Florida.

As a VA employee, my mission has gained new meaning. If our Veterans are staking their lives to preserve our way of life, if a father has to commemorate his son’s birthday with his gravestone, then surely, we must do everything in our power to honor their sacrifice.

I have known a young soldier from the Bronx who ran out into an open field to save one of his brothers lying wounded on the battlefield. I have seen a soldier sacrifice his own life when he threw his fellow soldier to the ground and used his own body to protect him from the full blast of a rocket propelled grenade. These men were heroes.

Rolling Thunder is to remind the government their responsibility for prisoners of war and those still missing in action. The demonstration demands accountability until each person comes home.

More than 100 students and six teachers along with three parents and 15 local Veterans placed 800 flags on Veterans' gravesites in preparation for Memorial Day.

Army Veteran Filmer Kenwanyama was inspired by the Hopi’s last code talker with whom he met and talked at the local VA. “I was so touched by him that I needed to do this painting.”

Put a bunch of women Veterans in a room, give them a mission to accomplish, and something almost magical ends up happening.

As far back as anyone can remember, African American Veterans and citizens in the Mississippi River towns of Vidalia, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi, have come together on Memorial Day to honor military service to the country and pay respects to loved ones interred at the Natchez National Cemetery.

U.S. Army Captain Luis Avila joined the Army in 2000, just before the September 11 terrorist attacks, and was in the midst of serving his fifth overseas deployment when a 600-pound improvised explosive device detonated beneath his vehicle.

These three women became the first American military casualties of World War I. But, part of the ambiguity about their military status nurses came from the fact that they were enrolled by the American Red Cross before being inducted into the U.S. Army.