The next installment of a series highlighting veterans oral history program, highlights the service of Capt. Gerald Groden, who moved to Texas after he served with Great Britain’s Royal Air Force as a Lancaster Bomber Pilot.
For years, fans of The Legend of Zelda have debated why the series is named after Zelda, when Link has been the main playable character.
Tim Vanover’s father died on Sept. 8, 1990; since then, Tim has been on a mission to find closure.On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Tim found a bit of closure when his father, Elmer Vanover, was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart during a ceremony at Oklahoma State University.
Romay Johnson Davis was the oldest surviving member of the “Six Triple Eight,” the only predominantly Black unit of the Women’s Army Corps to serve overseas during World War II. Davis died June 21 in Montgomery, Ala. She was 104.
Lawmakers urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to take more steps to reduce a backlog of claims from disabled veterans and their survivors seeking health care services and benefits, which peaked at more than 400,000 in January.
President Joe Biden says troops who were convicted under an old military policy criminalizing consensual gay sex can now apply for full pardons that could restore their discharges from military service to an honorable status and pave the way for benefits. Potentially thousands of veterans are affected, but many questions remain about the policy that the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs still must work through.
Corporal Miller’s song tells a unique story of his service in World War II, when he was a member of what is now called the “Ghost Army.”
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he would pardon U.S. veterans convicted by the military during a 60-year period that banned gay sex.
The granddaughter of a sailor who survived the sinking of the USS Arizona in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s commemoration in December.
Purple Heart recipient Raffique Khan still can’t believe he was pulled over while driving his BMW in Brooklyn for no apparent reason — then arrested for carrying a legal gun.
Jordan Duncan, a Marine veteran who was previously stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, appeared Monday in a federal court in Wilmington, N.C., and admitted to aiding and abetting the manufacture of firearms.
The House is set to vote this week on an annual defense spending bill that President Joe Biden said he would veto for harming service member access to reproductive health care, threatening the health of safety of LGBTQ+ troops and undermining readiness.
Mohammed Abu Hashem ended a 22-year Air Force career after his aunt was killed in an Israeli strike. “I can’t be part of the system that enabled this,” he says.
By the time he turned 18 in 1942, Lawrence Szydlowski had already tried multiple times to enlist in a war that few Americans alive today can remember. “I wanted to just get in there and help,” he said during his 100th birthday party.
A federal court in San Francisco has refused to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 35,000 LGBTQ+ veterans against the Defense Department, claiming they were wrongfully discharged because of their sexual orientation and often disqualified for veterans benefits.
A Jewish American soldier who was killed in France during World War II and mistakenly buried in a mass grave for German soldiers has finally joined his fallen comrades in Normandy.
The Pentagon’s agency that works to account for missing service members announced that nearly 80 years after a World War II battle in Italy, the remains of an American soldier have been identified as Pfc. Lemuel Dent Jr.