Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is U.S. Army Veteran Guadalupe Velasquez. Guadalupe served during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1972.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Beau Biden. On May 30, 2015, Beau passed away at Walter Reed Medical Center after a fight with brain cancer.
Robert Davis joined the Navy in 2004 to follow in his father’s footsteps. He served as a boatswain’s mate aboard the USS Peleliu, LHA-5 until 2008.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Julius W. Becton Jr. Julius served during World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam War.
“We didn’t know we were making history at the time. We were just doing our job,” said Wilfred DeFour, Army Air Forces Veteran and Tuskegee Airman.
On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the day Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, James Blakely and the USS Saint Louis were docked at the southeast pier.
Army Air Corps Veteran Arthur Saunders earned the Congressional Gold Medal when Congress gave recognition to the Tuskegee Airmen in 2007.
Michelle Howard took command of NATO Allied Force Joint Command becoming the first woman and African American to command a joint billet.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran John R. Fox. John was awarded the Medal of Honor for his sacrifice in World War II.
Mack Haynes was deployed to the Pacific Theater, where he and his fellow Marines fought Japanese forces in operations across five Pacific islands.
Mack Gaston was a commander of the Defense Nuclear Agency and was the first African American commander of Naval Training Center Great Lakes in Illinois.
On September 29, 1918, while fighting in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I, Perry Loyd was wounded in action.