When George DeLong started out in the Navy, he had no idea that, within the first year, he would survive one of the worst attacks the United States has ever faced.
Calling all women Veteran artists! VA’s Center for Women Veterans and the Veteran Artist Program will showcase art by 10 women Veterans at 10 VA medical centers around the United States in March 2017, to coincide with Women’s History Month.
With virtual reality technology, anybody now walk the decks of the battleship USS Arizona just before the attack, witness the attack on Battleship Row and visit the USS Arizona Memorial.
This December, we remember the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Living Legacy of American Indian Veterans: a Conversation with Juanita Mullen and Brenda McEwing
As National Native American Heritage Month is coming to a […]
Dr. Hilliard Seigler, a researcher and surgeon at the Durham VA Health Care System as well as Duke University, where the Durham VA shares an affiliation, is VA's oldest Veteran employee.
Vera Cecelia Gustafson Palmer experienced World War II in a unique way. She was seldom far from the front, and she saw the worst that the war inflicted, but she also saw heroism on a daily basis.
I love my father all the more today; simply for who he was: a hard-working, stoic, introverted man of high principles – but also, for who he was then – and by nature, who he must always have been: a rogue scoundrel simply making his way through life.
“On that day, let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of […]
Herschel “Woody” Williams does not remember most of the Battle of Iwo Jima. After he took out the first pillbox, he does not remember how he returned to his station five more times over a period of four hours to retrieve serviced flamethrowers and continued to take out pillbox after pillbox.
VA Secretary Bob McDonald joined Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at a Washington Post event to discuss how this generation of Veterans is defining itself.
Mike Fitzmaurice enlisted in the U.S. Army with some buddies at the height of the Vietnam War and later found himself in Khe Sanh, Vietnam. For his actions there, he received the Medal of Honor.