On Monday, 70-year-old U.S. Air Force Veteran Frederick Todd fulfilled his dying wish -- to marry his partner of over 38 years.
World War I memorials around the country will receive extra attention this year as part of a program launched this week to restore and preserve local memorials in 100 cities across the United States or U.S. territories.
More than 140,000 Quilts of Valor have been awarded here in the United States, and in Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than 10,000 people descended on the Dallas - Fort Work National Cemetery last week as Navy Veteran and Dallas Police officer Patricio “Patrick” Zamarripa was laid to rest.
Charles Kettles originally received a Distinguished Service Medal for his courageous actions on May 15, 1967, but today he was awarded the Medal of Honor, joining a small but distinguished group of recipients.
At the height of World War II, in 1943, Maxine Bodman enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where she served as a yeoman. You get a sense from listening to her that the same initiative that led her to enlist continues to drive her towards meeting her goals today.
Manuel Mercedes joined nine other area World War II Veterans who received the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony in Pinellas Park July 14, France’s Bastille Day.
Forced out of the military for being gay, former Airman now serves his fellow veterans as a VA nurse
Moving to Los Angeles, Stiles worked in computer technology jobs of increasing skill and responsibility. Then, his father became very ill with lung cancer. Stiles was very moved about the way his mother, who was a nurse, cared for his father until he died, although the two had long been divorced and she was remarried. “The comfort, strength, courage and support my mother offered was extraordinary,” he says. A few years after his father’s death, Stiles decided to become a nurse.
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They tell the stories of comrades suddenly gone and of brave men taken by enemy fire.
Former U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant David Thatcher, one of the two remaining Doolittle Raiders, died Wednesday morning in Missoula, Montana.