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Personal Stories of Wartime Service 16 Jun 2013 | 08:55 pm
Earlier this year, the New York Times published a series called “Home Fires.” Home Fires featured the writing of men and women who have returned from wartime service in the United States military. ...
America’s Oldest Veteran 14 Jun 2013 | 03:36 am
America’s oldest living veteran celebrated Memorial Day at his Texas home like he always does: on the porch, smoking a cigar and sipping a cup of coffee stiffened with whiskey. Richard Arvine Overton,...
How Golf Helped a Veteran to Heal 9 Jun 2013 | 05:00 pm
By Tim Rosaforte, from the May 27 edition of Golf World Monday: Ret. Lance Corporal Tim Lang will stand on the first tee in the Patriot Cup today in Oklahoma and recognize Memorial Day by looking down...
D-Day 7 Jun 2013 | 03:34 am
From: www.history.com Although the term D-Day is used routinely as military lingo for the day an operation or event will take place, for many it is also synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day the Allie...
How Easily We Forget? 5 Jun 2013 | 03:04 am
HONOLULU (AP) — On the shoreline of Hawaii‘s most famous beach, a decaying structure attracts little attention from wandering tourists. A few glance curiously at the crumbling Waikiki Natatorium, a sa...
Lt. Dan 2 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pm
Actor Gary Sinise has starred in his share of films of television shows, but there’s one role that still follows him nearly 20 years later: Lt. Dan. Sinise, a longtime advocate for veterans’ interests...
A Love Story From Long Ago 1 Jun 2013 | 04:11 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Before Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the Central Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his “last life request” to anyone who might find his diary:...
Memorial Day & The Poppy 27 May 2013 | 04:25 pm
BUDDY POPPY The VFW conducted its first poppy distribution before Memorial Day in 1922, becoming the first veterans’ organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The poppy soon was adopted as t...
U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs: Memorial Day Message 27 May 2013 | 04:17 pm
From Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki WASHINGTON — This weekend, Americans in large numbers will visit our national cemeteries and other final resting places to honor their loved ones, t...
Vietnam POW Reunion 24 May 2013 | 04:00 am
This iconic March 17, 1973 file photo shows released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm being greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the ...
