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Cheryl Haase and her team at the Red Onion Pizza Restaurant, with the help of the community, stepped up for one veteran, helping him get a new cane and a new home.

For decades, Ben Cooper has lived with the memory of World War II and all that he saw with the Army’s 45th Infantry Division. As he gets ready to celebrate his 100th birthday, he reflects on what he and his generation sacrificed to end the Holocaust and save humanity.

Family and friends of one of the U.S.’ last WWII veterans said goodbye to 102-year-old San Diego resident Sidney Walton, who died Saturday in Santa Monica surrounded by loved ones.

In 1945, World War II Veteran Ed Kinslow missed his high school graduation because he was busy flying for the Air Force. At age 94, he is finally getting the chance to walk across the stage on graduation day.

Decades before police in Virginia pepper sprayed Army officer Caron Nazario, Black military servicemembers were intentionally targeted by police while coming home from the World Wars. Timothy Berry of the Black Veterans Project explains the history of police violence against Black Americans who served their country.

Morris A. Johnson’s dog tags from WWII were reunited with his family members after being found in a thrift store.

A coronavirus outbreak at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton has claimed the lives of 15 veterans in a matter of weeks. One of them is 93-year-old WWII veteran Martin Oppenheimer, and he has quite a story.

World War II veteran Major Wooten was released from the hospital on Monday after battling COVID-19.

Marty Rust served the U.S. military honorably as a combat photographer in Vietnam. He died in Connecticut in September and over the last few weeks, Connecticut’s Patriot Guard has been working to make sure he got an equally honorable return to family in the Midwest.

Comedian Rita Brent’s rap video about Kamala Harris making history as the first Black woman Vice President-elect has gone viral. The rapper and Army veteran joined LX News to talk about the message behind her viral rap and drop some bars of “solidarity magic.”

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.

Montana Reinschmidt’s military uniform was barely worn in when an accident on a dirt bike left him paralyzed.

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.

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...