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During Hispanic Heritage Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Baldomero López, a Korean War Medal of Honor recipient.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Clarence Davis, whose service during the Korean War is now a comic book.

Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran John Lavra, one of only 171,000 U.S. servicemembers to see service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Roland Granville Downing, who served on the USS Latimer during the Korean War.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Harold S. Miller, who served as a merchant mariner during World War II and as a communications specialist in Korea.

During Caribbean-American Heritage Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Juan E. Negrón, a Korean War Medal of Honor recipient.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Ronald Rosser, who served during the Korean and Vietnam Wars as a paratrooper and forward observer.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Arnold J. Braasch. who served as an artificer with the 25th Division during the Korean War.

The National Memorial Day Concert May 30 will honor Veterans from different eras. Here’s a preview of some of those stories.

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.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Werner Krenzer, who served in the Pacific during World War II, in Korea and with NATO.