Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran George M. Van Sant, who served during WWII and the Korean War.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Diana Beatriz Borrero, who died at the Pentagon on 9/11.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Cesar Luis Gonzalez, whose plane crashed in Sicily in 1943.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran James J. Jacques, one of the last names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, a woman who served under the name Lyons Wakeman in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Mary Louise Castro, who served in the WAC during WWII.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is WWII Army Veteran Hiram F. Plummer III, who earned a posthumous Bronze Star Medal for saving his fellow soldiers in battle.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Sydney G. Gumpertz, who earned the Medal of Honor for service in France during World War I.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Corps Veteran Thomas Mantell Jr., who served in the European Theater of World War II.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army National Guard Veteran Rumsey E. Dodson, a "Doughboy" who served in World War I.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Henry Lamar Hunt, who earned two Bronze Star Medals as a chaplain during the Vietnam War.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Ira Lindsey Bad Bear, who served in Vietnam.
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