veteran

David Herbert, an honorably discharged disabled veteran, was sentenced to nearly nine years behind bars. He has served just 17 months

Strangers gathered together at East Thompson Cemetery Friday morning to honor a local veteran who they had never met.

Exit12 is a dance and ballet company formed by an Iraq War veteran dedicated to telling the personal stories of war through art and veteran-centered workshops.

World War II veteran Joe Sterczela is back home after lasting through an eight-week battle with the novel coronavirus. The 93-year-old is no stranger to battling an enemy — the Navy veteran was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. But Never before had the Webster, Massachusetts, native fought in the hospital against an enemy he couldn’t see. “He…

The British World War II veteran who became a national hero by raising millions to support the country’s National Health Service celebrated two milestones on Thursday with much fanfare, NBC News reports.

A New Haven veteran is one of only a few surviving African-American service members who were used as human experiments during atomic bomb testing after WWII.

Ronald Hudson, a 60-year-old veteran from West Haven, has been missing for six days and police are looking for help to find him.

A World War II veteran is on a mission to travel to all 50 states as part of an effort to raise awareness about the dwindling number of veterans from that war who are still alive.

For 53-year-old Harry Brown, a homeless veteran with terminal pancreatic cancer, life has dealt some difficult blows. But a trip to Long Beach to say goodbye to family and friends proved especially devastating when his beloved service dog, Olivia, wandered away while he napped in a park ten days ago.

Marvin Strombo was behind Japanese enemy lines on a Pacific island during World War II when he realized the other five men in his squadron had moved on without him. The young U.S. Marine, part of an elite scout-sniper platoon fighting a 1944 battle on Saipan, nervously scanned the terrain. He spotted a body on the ground, a dead Japanese...

Ninety-four-year-old 2nd Lt. John Pedevillano is finally receiving a Purple Heart seven decades after his service. The World War II veteran was a bombardier in a B-17 that was shot down over Nazi Germany in April 1944. After he was freed by Allied forces and sent home in 1945, Pedevillano was too modest to seek recognition. It was his daughter...

This month, 93-year-old WWII veteran Herbert Krueger from Iowa finally got all the medals he was awarded during his service. Krueger earned 15 medals for playing a key role in stopping an attack in Italy, but only received the Bronze Star. He sent his discharge papers to his senator after seeing stories of other aging veterans getting their long overdue...

A 96-year-old World War II veteran went back to USC to complete a one-unit course. On Friday, he became the oldest graduate in the school’s history.

When Michael Garvey returned from Afghanistan with a Purple Heart and painful injuries, he struggled with intense night sweats and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other issues. The firefight he survived left him with nerve damage to his leg and injuries to his stomach. Garvey tried therapy and medication to cope with the pain and loneliness. Then, after two years of...

Two former funeral home employees are out of a job after they stopped at a Dunkin’ Donuts Tuesday morning, leaving a hearse carrying the flag-draped coffin of an Army veteran in the parking lot.

A man was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the slaying of a 21-year-old Army veteran who was gunned down in the street in Sylmar over the weekend, police said on Veterans Day.