Veterans Get Virtual Visits to Memorials

For elderly or disabled veterans who are unable to travel, there are some sacred tributes to their service that they will never be able to visit – like the new WWII Memorial in Washington...

Veterans and Horses

To most people, the animals in veteran Tice Ridley’s menagerie look like they're living a comfortable life of leisure. But the five goats, two alpacas, two rabbits, potbellied pig, cat, guinea pig, dog and...

Veterans Given Federal Grant To Help With Homelessness

A $500,000 federal grant has been issued in the interests of keeping local veterans from being homeless in the country they served. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin met with local vets recently to see how...

Veterans Commemorated in Wreath Ceremony

At the Gates of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Sunnyvale California, dozens of family members and volunteers laid Christmas wreaths on the graves of 200 veterans who had served in the U.S. military. Volunteers and families...

Veterans – Love and War

Journalist Sebastian Junger was embedded with soldiers in the Korengal Valley during the war in Afghanistan. One of the reasons some veterans miss war, he says, is because it fulfills a deep human need...

Veterans Struggles Dramatized in Theatre

On Veteran's Day, the Hollywood American Legion Post 43 in Los Angeles Liberty Theater presented the world premiere of Everything In Between, a play dealing with four generations of vets and their unique difficulties...

Veterans Use Music As Therapy

Richard Casper wanted to do something to assist other veterans as they transitioned from service to civilian life, so he founded Creativets. With the help of professional singer/songwriters, Richard uses music and arts as...

Veterans in film – Last Days of Vietnam

Veterans in film: April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. City after city...

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