In this week’s episode of the BLUF, host Sarah Kallassy dives into the 4Ms of healthy aging — What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility. As part of the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement, the VA is implementing these evidence-based practices to support aging Veterans in living healthier lives.

KISS’ Gene Simmons and an 100-year-old World War II veteran rode together on a sparkling, red-white-and-blue float through the nation’s capital in the 20th annual Memorial Day parade, bonded by a war story.

Sgt. Quandarius Stanley suffered a brain injury in an accident on last year’s mission to build a pier off Gaza. His death months later in a VA hospital has his family asking questions.

Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for service in the Korean War before spending nearly five decades on Capitol Hill, died Monday at the age of 94.

Marcel Ophuls, who became an American citizen and later served as a U.S. Army GI in occupied Japan, directed the 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” that shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II

A new survey has found that veterans who play video games are more likely to be college-educated, married, and employed full time than their non-veteran counterparts, dispelling stereotypes.

The administration says conditions in Afghanistan have markedly improved under Taliban rule. Those who fought in the war say that’s ‘laughable.’

The World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was shot down off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944. All 11 men aboard were killed and their remains were presumed lost forever in the vast sea. Yet four crew members are finally coming home, beginning Memorial Day weekend.

The commander in charge of Army operations in Europe led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme American Cemetery, where some of the first American troops to die in combat on European soil are buried.

After joining the French resistance in 1944, Marthe Cohn spent a month in Germany, passing as a German nurse while making small talk with SS officers and Nazi soldiers, gathering information about troop movements. Her spying is credited with saving the lives of Allied troops pressing in on the Reich.