Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Carl Cooper, who fought in the Battle of Okinawa with the 6th Marine Division during World War II.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Spencer Polinger, who served as a combat medic and earned a Bronze Star Medal during the Vietnam War.
Al Ungerleider, an Army lieutenant in World War II, took part in the assault to liberate the Dora-Mittlebau concentration camp in Germany on April 11, 1945.
VA is dedicated to making the best health care available to all Veterans, including the more than 6 million living Vietnam Veterans.
19-year-old Michael Crescenz was killed in action in Vietnam, the only Philadelphian serving in Vietnam awarded the Medal of Honor. Philadelphia’s VA Medical Center was renamed in his honor in 2014.
The exquisite anonymous drawing of an Army nurse in Vietnam hung on the wall at the West Palm Beach medical center for eight years. And then a patient walked in. She was the nurse in the painting.
Air Force Veteran Charles E. Yeager served in World War II and the Vietnam War. Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier on Oct. 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Samuel E. Via, who served as an aeromedical evacuation technician during the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
VA has released an updated DOD list of locations outside of Vietnam where tactical herbicides were used, tested or stored by the United States military.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran William H. Pitsenbarger, a Medal of Honor recipient featured in the upcoming movie “The Last Full Measure.”
Rae Mary Leff served for 14 years in the Navy as a nurse, learning much about life while treating servicemen in Vietnam.
Organizations who want to thank Vietnam Veterans for their service […]