On a cool, overcast, misty Thursday morning, nearly 1,500 soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, placed more than 260,000 flags in just four hours.

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a collection that was intended to be available for public display forever but wound up in the middle of an interagency feud amid a lingering $8 million debt.

Veterans advocacy groups warned lawmakers that payment delays to vendors and staff cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs are creating delays and barriers for individuals with disabilities trying to modify their homes and vehicles with specialized equipment.

Twelve veterans kept the American flag moving as they ran 3,000 miles across the country and completed Team Red, White and Blue’s Old Glory Ultra Relay in 16 days, a challenge aimed at inspiring the nation’s veterans to prioritize their physical health.

In the latest episode of the VA’s weekly show The BLUF, Marine Corps veteran Sarah Kallassy discusses the department’s Caregiver Support Program.

Peter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb calculations as a college student, died May 16 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99.

Joe St. Clair, an Air Force veteran who had traveled outside the U.S. seeking alternative treatment for PTSD, has been released from a Venezuelan prison after being wrongfully detained by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

The Coast Guard was using a method to determine back pay that shortchanged hundreds of veterans and must stop, according to federal court documents filed Friday in a yearslong lawsuit over retention panels found to have illegally thinned noncommissioned officers from the service.

The new national war memorial called “Flames of Honor” will commemorate post-9/11 service members who died in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.