Today is a special double #VeteranOfTheDay post for Navy Veteran Kathryn Cruise and Army Air Force Veteran James Cruise, who served during World War II.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran O’Neal Gordon Paradis, who served during World War II and in the Korean War before using his GI Bill.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Whetsel M. Stump. Stump served as a Seabee in Alaska, Saipan and Okinawa during World War II.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Frances E. Thorpe, who was one of the first African American women commissioned as an officer.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Darrel L. Enos, a corpsman who deployed in support of both Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps and Navy Veteran Eric F. Shellenberger, who deployed multiple times with each branch.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Gretchen Sorensen, who served on the USS John F. Kennedy and became an EMT following her service.
In his song “Still Over There,” Air Force and Navy Veteran Franklin Tootle sings about his fight with PTSD.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Gordon Earl Bentley, who served as an FM-2 Wildcat pilot during WWII and received a Distinguished Flying Cross.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Heath Robinson, who served in both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On the anniversary of the USS Pueblo incident, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Donald Richard Peppard, who served aboard the ship.
Rae Mary Leff served for 14 years in the Navy as a nurse, learning much about life while treating servicemen in Vietnam.