Air Force

On his 84th birthday, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Morgan Freeman, who served from 1955 to 1959 and became an award-winning actor.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Aldo Stephen Panzieri, who served as a photographer and printer during the Vietnam War.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Henry A. Heim, who served as a bomber pilot during World War II and the Korean War.

Then-Army Air Forces pilot Warren Halstead flew missions daily out of Coulommiers, France, during World War II. On May 8, 1945, he was at his duty station, on break from dropping supplies and transporting wounded to hospitals in England. The news came in: the war in Europe was over. Seventy-six years later, the retired Air Force colonel still remembers the mixed emotions of Victory in Europe, or V-E, Day.

Following the success of a Memorial Day video in 2020, the Air Force Band was back at Culpeper National Cemetery in Virginia April 26 to shoot a video for Memorial Day 2021. The band returned to the site to pay respect and film a tribute to those who lost their lives in war.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Deborah Trouba, who served for 20 years in the Air Force and sews COVID-19 masks for a cancer center.

On the anniversary of his birth, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Lance P. Sijan, a Vietnam War fighter pilot who received a Medal of Honor.

On the anniversary of the Bataan Death March, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Wild Bill Begley, one of the survivors.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Andree M. Hampton Sutton, who served from 1979-2005 and retired as a chief master sergeant.

Air Force Veteran and Tuskegee Airman Howard Lee Baugh served in World War II as a fighter pilot and overcame the barriers of systemic racism.

On the Tuskegee Airmen birthday, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran James Harvey III, who served during World War II and the Korean War.

Air Force Veteran Irene Trowell-Harris is a woman Veteran author who wrote “Bridges: A Life Building and Crossing Them" about her life.