Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Richard E. “Dick” Cole. He is the last living Veteran of the Doolittle Raid, which took place 75 years ago today.
Sharing a holiday away from family can be difficult. But the men and women of America’s military have a long tradition of making holidays their own, in whatever circumstances they find themselves.
VA’s Center for Women Veterans partnered with Veteran Artist Program (VAP) to highlight women Veteran artists this year.
“They are my family and I appreciate each one of them and all they have done for me," one Veterans says about his team at the Manchester VA.
This was Skardon's 10th time walking in the march, which he considers a personal pilgrimage. He says it's his sacred responsibility to attend every year and walk with the thousands of others who come to honor his brothers-in-arms who didn't survive the real Bataan Death March or the years of confinement in prisoner of war camps that followed.
April 6, 2017, marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I. People around the nation and the world recognized this significant event.
This Sunday, April 9, will be the 75th anniversary of the Bataan Death March, which claimed the lives of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers in World War II. Army Veteran Wayne Carringer, one of the survivors, will be honored at a ceremony this Sunday at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, N.C., where he is a resident of the Community Living Center.
With the wind blowing steady through dozens of American flags, the Veteran and Gold Star Families community in central Kentucky dedicated a new memorial Tuesday in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation.
During April's National Minority Health Month, VA's Center for Minority Veterans and Office of Health Equity are raising awareness of the various factors that impact on the ability of minority Veterans and their families to reach the highest level of health and wellbeing.
For me, it has been an honor to participate as a woman Veteran and feel that sense of patriotism and joy of being a woman and having served my country.
More than 600 volunteers participated in various capacities during Winter Sports Clinic, helping register people, aiding Veterans in and out of equipment, fulfilling transportation needs and guiding participants to their sports activities.
In honor of the day the United States entered the war on April 6, 1917, VA’s National Cemetery Administration (NCA) will host wreath-laying ceremonies this week to commemorate and honor the 353,082 World War I Veterans interred in VA national cemeteries across the country.