Veterans Day

It is a weekend of reflection and honor, as America pays tribute to all men and women who have served our country.  Around the United States there are ceremonies and observations taking place, but you don’t need to leave the state to visit one National memorial. Standing tall in Newington, is the National Iwo Jima Memorial. “The service flags...

Standing tall in Newington, is the National Iwo Jima Memorial.

Pratt & Whitney held a ceremony Friday for employees who are veterans.

Ted Marolda, 100, enlisted in the Marine Corps one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Students at the Eli Terry Elementary School in South Windsor honored veterans as their special guests on Friday. The school honored the veterans and introduced them to the students.

In appreciation of Veterans Day on Saturday, Nov. 11, businesses will honor active-duty and retired military with all sorts of deals.

Veterans Day is coming soon to commemorate those who’ve served in military in the U.S. Here’s what’s open and closed on the federal holiday.

Both Veterans Day and Memorial Day have significant meaning to many veterans, members of the U.S. armed services and their families.

Hamden Middle School seventh graders gathered for a veterans’ awareness program on Friday and had the opportunity to speak one-on-one with veterans from the community about their experience serving in the armed forces. “It plants seeds and answers questions,” said Ronald Weil, a retired U.S. Army colonel and chairman of the Hamden Veterans Commission. “We give the students a...

A new report finds that 33,472 Connecticut veterans are living in financial hardship. That’s 23% of the state’s veterans.

A veteran is giving learning a second chance, going back to school at the University of Hartford. Cynthia Puerta says she chose to study psychology because she wants to help other veterans like herself who are healing from trauma. The new student at the University of Hartford goes everywhere with her service dog, Gypsy. Psychology is a subject close to…

A veteran is giving learning a second chance, going back to school at the University of Hartford.

In 1943, Buffalo, New York, native Bob Stromberg went to the draft board to see when he’d be called to serve in World War II — a question he says caught them by surprise. “‘Well, here’s a live one!’ They’re usually coming there saying, ‘Please don’t take me,’” Stromberg told News4 during an interview at his Rockville, Maryland, home....

Surrounded by military veterans, Rachel Clark was handed the keys to a new Subaru Forester, a gift from the Military Warriors Support Foundation.

Jesse Caples Sr. fought in the Revolutionary War, but was buried in an unmarked grave in Middletown. He now has a proper headstone thanks to one of his descendants.

Veterans, active duty and military families are nearly 40% more likely to lose money to scams and fraud, according to AARP. Troy Broussard, an Army Desert Storm veteran and senior advisor of AARP’s Veteran and Military Families Initiative, says scammers are focused on our nation’s heroes because they have access to things civilians don’t like VA benefits and sometimes...

If you’re a veteran in need of home repairs, go to HOHCT.org for more information.

Under gray clouds and pouring rain at Arlington National Cemetery, Vice President Kamala Harris told the nation’s veterans Friday their work makes America stronger, as the administration announced new support for children who live with wounded service members.