Pets for Patriots is a national organization that networks with animal shelters to promote adoptions of homeless dogs and cats by military personnel, both active-duty and retired.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III issued the approval Saturday in accordance with Directive-Type Memorandum 19-011. That policy allows service academy graduates to pursue employment in professional sports immediately following graduation.

Saigon, December 1965: A truck bomb that heavily damaged the Metropole Hotel, a bachelor enlisted men’s quarters for the U.S. military in downtown Saigon, left an eerie footnote in the sign of the Bombay tailor shop. Eight Vietnamese, one U.S. Marine and a soldier from New Zealand were killed in the early morning blast that also injured more than 175 people, including 72 Americans.

In the exhibit on display until Oct. 31, iconic characters from the Lewis Carroll classic, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” have been brought to literal if botanical life in the form of “mosaiculture” sculptures