On a hot, sticky May afternoon in 1970, a crowd of several thousand students and protesters took over the University of Maryland mall. Many were there to protest the Vietnam War. Others were hoping to catch a glimpse of a famous Hollywood actress. Her name was Jane Fonda.

A Vietnam War-era swift boat at the Maritime Museum of San Diego has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Jozef Zawitkowski was the last surviving soldier from his unit in the underground Polish Home Army in World War II. He was due to receive another medal in Poland later this year, which one of his nephews now will accept.

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Monique Bourassa Fuchs tried for a week to track down the owner of the envelope filled with photos, newspaper clippings and a 1969 letter from J. Edgar Hoover. With the help of a newspaper reporter, she learned the Marine veteran was one county away.

They comprise one of the most famous crews in the U.S Navy’s history and they have returned to Pueblo this week for the 50th anniversary of the terrible year they spent as prisoners, often tortured, in North Korea.

Brig. Gen. James B. Thayer died Sunday at age 96, according to an announcement from the rock band Kiss, in which Thayer's son, Tommy, is a guitarist.

As troops moved across Europe after the World War II D-Day invasion, they were accompanied by some of the world's greatest reporters and photographers. They, in turn, were followed by a group that sometimes engaged them in a different (but necessary) battle: The censors.

History curriculum in Texas remembers the Alamo, but could soon forget Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller.

Ramona Gonzalez did not drown when Hurricane Maria drenched Puerto Rico. She did not die in the tempest, or from destruction wrought by the storm's 154 mph winds. Instead, this disabled, 59-year-old woman died a month later, from sepsis — caused, says her family, by an untreated bedsore.

Hurricane Florence made landfall on the North Carolina coast Friday morning, bringing powerful winds along with forecasts warning of "life-threatening" storm surge and rainfall. In 1954, North Carolina was preparing for Hurricane Hazel, the only recorded Category 4 storm to hit the state.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday formally recognized the responsibility of the French state in the death of a dissident mathematician in Algeria in 1957, admitting for the first time the French military's "system" that included torture during Algeria's independence war.

Relatives of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, are demanding $30 million from Memphis in connection with a statue of the Confederate general that was removed from a city park last year.

On Sept. 12, 2001, West Point cadet Joe Quinn boarded a Metro-North train for Lower Manhattan in search of his older brother. It took him a year to finally reach his destination, on the first anniversary of the attack. His sibling Jimmy, working on the 104th floor for Cantor Fitzgerald, has yet to be found.

In coming weeks, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is expected to announce the first two identifications from 55 sets of remains turned over by North Korea following a historic June summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday that the remains of Navy Fireman 3rd Class Robert J. Bennett were accounted for on Aug. 13.

News outlets report the VA Medical Center in Huntington, W. Va., held a ceremony Sunday to officially rename the center after Medal of Honor recipient Hershel "Woody" Williams, a retired Marine and Department of Veterans Affairs service officer.

Lee's Special Orders 191 divided his troops in an effort to regroup and also conquer Harpers Ferry, where a Union garrison was stationed.

On Sept. 8, 1934, the S.S. Morro Castle was enroute from Havana to New York City when a fire started. The fire rendered the 508-foot boat powerless. A total of 137 people perished. Members of the Bogan family answered the Coast Guard's distress call to rescue survivors.

The signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, about 10 weeks after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, changed the livelihood of U.S. Japanese communities forever. It set in motion the World War II incarceration of more than 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese descent.

The United States and North Korea returned to the negotiating table Friday, with generals from both countries meeting to discuss the recovery of the remains of service members killed in the Korean War, an official said.

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The year was 1968, and as the Vietnam War raged on, David Meggyesy, a linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals, was conflicted about NFL rules on players' etiquette during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner." In his mind, the league was overtly backing the Vietnam War effort to appease middle America.

As Arlington Cemetery opens its new $81.7 million section on Thursday, lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis will become the first woman to have one of the cemetery's drives named after her. She boldly rescued mariners in distress in the late 1800s.

In an unshaded corner of Finn's Point National Cemetery is a reminder of a tragedy. In two lines made up of simple white tombstones, are the graves of 13 German prisoners of war who died while being held at Fort Dix during World War II. Ten of the POWs died of various causes, but three gravestones all bear the same date: June 29, 1945 – 52 days after the fighting in Europe ended.

Ken Spatz never met his father, a B-17 aircraft waist gunner with the same name, who died in World War II. But last week he visited the site where the B-17 crashed and collected a memento — his father’s long-lost high school ring.

She's a pop-culture icon, an immensely popular feminist image, our symbol of the women who joined the nation's workforce during World War II.

"It was an important win and evidence that he was on his way to becoming a great player," said Steve Flink, a veteran tennis journalist and historian. "How great? We'll never know. That's the legacy. It's sad. It should have been the start of something."

Justin Mayhue is one of 25 tour guides certified with the National Park Service to give tours at the battlefield. They share a passion for the battle fought on Sept. 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg.

One might think it took a tragedy to reveal the heroism of air ambulance teams, who face inherent aviation risks while caring for the most critically injured of patients under challenging conditions.

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About five years before Sen. John McCain ran for President, a USS Massachusetts Memorial Committee director of oral history traveled to Washington, D.C., to interview the Navy war veteran and POW about his distinctive military and political service coming from a family of Navy admirals.

Few today know about the grim accident — the worst in Grafenwoehr’s history — that took the lives of 16 soldiers serving on this base on Sept. 2, 1960.

“We were in combat immediately with no experience,” Sam Folsom, 98, told Stars and Stripes recently. “Green as can be – very few of us had any real flight experience." He would ultimately leave Guadalcanal with three air-to-air kills.

In the spring of 1967, Johnnie Ashe, a Marine counting down the days left of his time at war in Vietnam, realized that if he went home, his older brother, who had 15 months left in the Army, could be shipped off to Vietnam.

During WWII, flags were often signed by servicemembers’ families, neighbors, schoolmates and coworkers wishing for good fortune in war. The warriors would then fold the flag and carry it into battle.

Merritt Lamb, who died in 1918 at the age of 26, was honored for his bravery and his many contributions to Muskegon, Michigan in a small ceremony at Hackley Park.

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Marine Corps veteran A.B. Grantham talks about being wounded in the Battle of Hue, Vietnam, in February, 1968.

This field dotted with yellow flowers was the scene of one of the most horrific air show disasters in Europe. A brief ceremony was held to remember the 70 victims and hundreds whose lives were changed by the accident on Aug. 28, 1988.

The P-38 Lightning fighter plane was part of a “lost squadron” of planes that crashed-landed on Greenland during a blizzard on July 15, 1942. All crew members on the six P-38s and two B-17s were rescued after nine days, and the planes were left behind.

To understand how Silent Sam fell is to understand how he rose. This is the story, told in five chapters, of the rise and fall of an 8-foot bronze, boyish depiction of a Confederate soldier who faced north, toward the enemy, for more than a century. It is a story whose final chapter has yet to be written.

The "War to End All Wars" claimed an estimated 40 million military and civilian lives - of which nearly 117,000 were American - and left behind apocalyptic devastation. "Over There" - in the parlance of the famous George M. Cohan song - France was an unimaginable hellscape.

The USS North Carolina isn't the only World War II-era warship with ties to the Tar Heel state. As it turns out, a lesser-known vessel with ties to the state has been at the center of an international geopolitical conflict unfolding in the South China Sea in recent years.

The USS Cavalla has been attracting a new kind of visitor: ghost hunters. After hours, when all the other visitors have left, paranormal investigators have been setting up to record video and use other equipment to explore the submarine for activity that might be considered ghostly.

The Spanish government decreed the removal of dictator Francisco Franco's remains from a mausoleum outside Madrid, fulfilling a pledge made by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez when he took office in June.

The American Battlefield Trust’s Civil War Battle Maps application offers more than 100 maps created by the Trust’s veteran cartographer, Steve Stanley, showing military maneuvers on the war’s best-known battlegrounds.

Retired Army Master Sgt. Polito “Paul” Olivas, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day in 1944 with the 101st Airborne Division, has plans for another parachute drop — but this time with no one shooting at him as he lands.

David A. Smith was finishing up a night watch at the U.S. consulate in Munich as dawn broke on an August day in 1968, when the red phone rang, alerting him to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Veterans and lawmakers from Wyoming have voiced their objections to a Pentagon plan to return church bells seized by U.S. troops more than a century ago after a battle during the Philippine-American war.

Walter Mintus, who served in the same U.S. Navy Torpedo Squadron as future President George H.W. Bush, was shot down in late July over the archipelago nation of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. He went missing in action and was presumed dead, but his remains were never recovered and the case seemingly went cold for many decades.

Researchers are hoping the discovery of the USS Abner Read brings some awareness about the Aleutian Islands campaign to the American public. For families of the sailors who died, they want the finding to offer some solace.

“The mettle of our scientists and the capabilities of our labs will be challenged, but in the months and years ahead, they will make identifications from these remains and give families long-sought answers,” said Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Director Kelly McKeague.

The B-25 Mitchell bomber that became known as the Badin Bomber crashed into the North Carolina lake on June 8, 1944. The bodies of the pilot and copilot, along with the wreckage were never recovered.

A public celebration on Tuesday in Window Rock, Arizona, will include a parade, presentations, speeches and a luncheon to honor the more than 400 Navajo Marines who created a radio code during WWII.

A century after she joined the Marine Corps, Opha May Johnson's historic achievement was commemorated. At the time she enlisted, it would still be two years until women could legally vote.

The Philippine government has long insisted on return of the bells, which belonged to the Roman Catholic church in the town of Balangiga. But some veterans and Wyoming’s members of Congress are against the move, seeing them as a memorial to U.S. troops.

Arsène Tchakarian, the last surviving member of the Armenian-led Manouchian network, which fought alongside the French resistance against the Nazi occupiers during World War II, died Aug. 4 at a hospital in Villejuif, south of Paris. He was 101.

Last month, the Defense Department announced that it had accounted for Dickson, among more than two dozen black aviators known as Tuskegee Airmen who were still missing from World War II.

The time capsule was buried on April 28, 1894 in concert with the dedication of Swampscott's just completed first high school "The Phillips School" — on the hilltop property that the Phillips Family donated to the town. The building construction costs registered in at $45,000.

The bones of two Union soldiers killed at the Civil War's Second Battle of Bull Run will be laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 6, the cemetery said Monday.

By the time World War II's Battle of Munda ended on Aug. 5, 1943, 16 of Company E's men were dead; nine were from the same small Ohio county.

A long-anticipated study into the cancer risks of New Mexico residents living near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test likely will be published in 2019, the National Cancer Institute announced.

Robert L. Martin, a combat pilot who said he flew "63 and a half" missions during World War II as part of the barrier-breaking Tuskegee Airmen, was shot down over German-occupied territory on the 64th and spent five weeks trying to return to Allied lines with the help of Josip Broz Tito's anti-fascist Yugoslav partisans, died July 26 at a senior living center in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He was 99.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Rick Spooner, now 92, said he and his wife, Gloria, opened the Globe & Laurel restaurant 50 years ago out of a desire to serve those who put everything — even their lives — on the line for the love of their country.

A leader in the Women's Airforce Service Pilots — a group of female aviators tasked with ferrying warplanes from factories to staging areas for deployment overseas — crashed a P-38 fighter plane in 1944. Witnesses say the memory of Evelyn Sharp is still strong today.

A German U-boat had torpedoed the Mirlo, a British tanker loaded with gasoline, seven miles from shore. The British had been transporting badly needed fuel from the United States for the forces in Europe during World War I.

In 1948, New Mexico's constitution barred American Indians living on reservations from participating in elections.Decades later, Native Americans have won seats in the Legislature and the state’s most populous city appears poised to elect a Laguna Pueblo woman to Congress.

Veterans in Austin, Texas now find themselves in a precarious position: whether to allow the Confederate flag and the groups that want to carry it to march in the city’s annual Veterans Day Parade.

A military cemetery, which includes the graves of three Medal of Honor recipients, has been under the care of the City of Vallejo, Calif., which hasn’t had the funds to keep up the grounds. Lawmakers are considering assigning its maintenance to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

A letter never before seen by the general public that offers a glimpse of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s evolving thoughts on the Vietnam War is up for sale — again.

A trove of historic film, mostly home movies, is being made available Wednesday by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.

At the time of his discharge in 1919, Mark McCarthy Jr. was given a "Good Conduct Medal," but his son often wondered why he was not given a Purple Heart, for being wounded in battle. 99 years later, he has received his Purple Heart.

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Clara Barton worked on the battlefields and hospitals during the Civil War, but before she went on to found the American Red Cross, she opened the Missing Soldiers Office in an attempt to provide information to families of missing Union soldiers.

The Arsenal was built in the mid-1800s by the United States government to make weapons for the American military. The Confederacy took control of it in 1861 for the Civil War and expanded it.

What awoke Confederate troops on July 30, 1864 was 8,000 pounds of gunpowder exploding from a mine that Union troops had tunneled under a Confederate fortification, leaving a massive crater and thousands of casualties.

For four hours Saturday night, an event space in a DoubleTree Hilton near Washington Dulles International Airport became a war room in the fight against forgetting.

St. Nicholas Day was approaching in 1944 when Harry Stutz and Richard Brookins, corporals in the U.S. Army's 28th Infantry Division, arrived in newly liberated Luxembourg.

French and Americans gathered at the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France on Saturday to mark the centennial of the Oise-Aisne Offensive.

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In a ceremony Wednesday, the completed National Montford Point Marine Memorial was formally transferred to the Secretary of the Navy and presented to the Montford Point Marines.

Joint U.S.-North Korean military searches for American remains were suspended in 2005 by former President George W. Bush as tensions increased between the nations over North Korean nuclear activity.

President Harry S Truman was disturbed by news of increasing attacks on black veterans across the country. Near the end of World War II, hundreds of black veterans returning home from war were assaulted and lynched — some simply for wearing uniforms.

A memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II.

Mary Ellis flew Spitfires and bombers, bringing the aircraft from factories to airfields. She flew more than 1,000 aircraft during the war and afterward managed Sandown airport on the Isle of Wight. She has died at the age of 101.

The American victory was made possible by France's army and navy, Dutch weapons and Spanish gold, and it was part of a larger conflict that included battles fought in the Caribbean and Gibraltar, far from Lexington and Concord.

A total of 13,000 interned Japanese Americans — about the population of Twin Falls in 1942 — were held at the Minidoka Relocation Center, known to locals as the “Hunt Camp,” north of Eden, Idaho.

Harry S. Truman didn't start out as a champion of African Americans. In fact, his dramatic transformation from segregationist to a civil rights advocate who desegregated the military 70 years ago today was nothing short of astonishing.

Some of Amelia Earhart's final messages were heard by members of the military and others looking for Earhart. Others caught the attention of people who just happened to be listening to their radios when they stumbled across random pleas for help.

Retired Rear Adm. Alene Duerk spent her career in the Navy’s nursing corps, serving during three major wars and eventually rising to the Navy’s top nurse position, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

The memorial will be presented to Montford Point Marines in a gifting ceremony scheduled for Wednesday at Lejeune Memorial Gardens, in Jacksonville, N.C.

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, an activist and researcher who would go on to uncover key documents that proved the U.S. government had racist motives for incarcerating Japanese-Americans during World War II, died Wednesday in Torrance. She was 93.

Bidding for the May 9, 1754, edition of the Gazette will begin at $40,000, Nate D. Sanders Auctions said in a statement.

The 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper, whose remains were missing for decades after the war, was laid to rest at Riverside National Cemetery in California.

During the 1940s, people began offering their dogs to help guard key installations throughout the nation. A national organization called Dogs for Defense was created.

Melvin Flath encountered a Frankenstein's monster of a vehicle — a boat and truck hybrid snatched up from a postwar surplus sale — and had an idea.

Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation is a sponsor and he typically is the star attraction.

C.S. “Chuck” McClintic, 83, a former U.S. Marine aircraft mechanic, was among six military veterans who took flight Friday afternoon in a set of vintage war planes.

To this day, 16 years after his death, Ted Williams remains something of an enigma, a man whose other-worldly talent was quickly evident but who was a complex riddle in so many other facets, as an exceptional chapter “Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived” in PBS TV’s “American Masters” series seeks to illuminate.

A pioneering Women's Army Auxiliary Corps volunteer turned 100 Friday, and recounted her time as a typist behind the American World War II effort.

As the Santa Fe Indian School gymnasium began to fill early Friday morning, one face etched with age stood out. Clemente Otero sat with his U.S. Army veteran baseball cap shading his eyes as the assembly around him rose with cheers and applause.

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Frank Denius was a 19-year-old staff sergeant when he and 700 other men of the U.S. Army's 30th Infantry Division – "Old Hickory" – found themselves on a hill in Mortain, Normandy, France, in August 1944 surrounded by four German Panzer divisions, including hundreds of tanks and heavy guns, and 40,000 Nazi troops, among them members of Hitler's elite SS forces.

John Giese has spent his life serving his community and his country: first as a Marine, then as a police officer and police chief, and finally as an elected official.

Retired Gen. John N. Abrams, the former commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, died Monday. He was 71.

William F. Liebenow, a tenacious Navy commander in World War II, died last year at 97. He was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery Thursday.

Robert S. White received a Bronze Star Tuesday during a short ceremony at the Hampton VA Medical Center, more than 70 years after he helped liberate Europe from the Nazis.

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“If these men and women are having a bad day, they can come in here, rant, rave, curse, scream, holler – you name it – and we all understand,” Donna Porras said. “We might not have been in their shoes, but we understand.”

Researchers are hoping the discovery of the USS Abner Read brings some awareness about the Aleutian Islands campaign to the American public. For families of the sailors who died, they want the finding to offer some solace.

Retired Army Master Sgt. Polito “Paul” Olivas, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day in 1944 with the 101st Airborne Division, has plans for another parachute drop — but this time with no one shooting at him as he lands.

U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Ruben Bell Jr. has a name, a rank, a hometown, five service medals and several living family members. For 50 years, though, he has remained a ghost.

Ken Dierdorf wanted so badly to sit alongside his Army brothers and feel the rush of air blow through an open-sided UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” one last time at Saturday’s Terre Haute Air Show. But fate, weather and his health wouldn’t allow it.

In the newly released 1.5-minute Air Force video, Tech Sgt. John Chapman can be seen charging up a steep slope toward enemy positions to recover a fellow servicemember who had fallen from the back after the team came under heavy enemy fire from al-Qaida.

Lincoln Parkes, a Navy Air Corps veteran and a veterinarian, first invented and patented a cart that allows disabled animals to walk in the early 1960s, launching a life-long love affair with the craft.

Army Staff Sgt. Michael T. Jeffrey was wounded in Iraq in 2006. He received a Purple Heart in 2012 at the Warrior Transition Unit in Fort Knox, but it wasn't until he made it home that he realized it wasn't his medal. On Tuesday, nonprofit Purple Hearts Reunited righted that wrong in an emotional, official ceremony to bestow the honor.

Francisco Joaquin is surely one of the most senior interns in Washington. He is spending the summer in the D.C. Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs, assisting vets, many of them low-income.

Robert L. Martin, a combat pilot who said he flew "63 and a half" missions during World War II as part of the barrier-breaking Tuskegee Airmen, was shot down over German-occupied territory on the 64th and spent five weeks trying to return to Allied lines with the help of Josip Broz Tito's anti-fascist Yugoslav partisans, died July 26 at a senior living center in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He was 99.

Kentucky is known for its bourbon, and Tennessee for its whiskey. But in Texas, as bold and brazen as the Lone Star State might be, there’s no distinctly Texan liquor. Three veterans are looking to change that.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Rick Spooner, now 92, said he and his wife, Gloria, opened the Globe & Laurel restaurant 50 years ago out of a desire to serve those who put everything — even their lives — on the line for the love of their country.

President Donald Trump will posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman for his actions in 2002 on Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan. He will become the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, and just the 19th in the service’s history.

Retired Rear Adm. Alene Duerk spent her career in the Navy’s nursing corps, serving during three major wars and eventually rising to the Navy’s top nurse position, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Retired Army Gen. Ronald Griffith, who commanded a tank division that helped rout Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard in the Persian Gulf War and later served as vice chief of staff of the Army, died July 18 at his home in Arlington, Virginia. He was 82.

Randy Dexter downplays his story. "I'm just a guy with a dog," he said. But Dexter, a 36-year-old combat veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, and Captain, his 6 1/2 -year-old service dog, saved each other's lives.

The USS John S. McCain, originally christened in 1992 in honor of Sen. John McCain's Navy admiral father and grandfather, was rededicated Thursday to also honor the former Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam veteran.

Bob Hart uses the VA Choice program to receive medical care at a private hospital close to his home near Jacksonville, Ill. He was informed several weeks ago that he owed the hospital for treatment he thought the VA covered.

Bill Huskins got his start in racing when he left the Navy in 1946. At that time, though, there was no regulated series.

Holly "Cargo" Harrison decided to hike the entire Western Hemisphere, and the journey was marked by dog attacks in South America, a life-threatening heart attack in Nevada and a bear attack in Alaska.

While piloting a B-24 on July 12, 1944, 2nd Lt. Kuchwara was shot out of the sky over Germany, crashed and was taken captive there. In May of 2018, his family finally secured him the POW medal that he deserved.

Fewer than 3,000 paratroopers made four combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. Following the death of retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman, fewer than 16 of those paratroopers are alive today.

The U.S. Army Air Forces airmen were members of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On Nov. 2, 1944, they were part of a nine-man crew that joined an armada of bombers on a mission to Merseburg, Germany.

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Garlin “Murl” Conner never wavered under fire during his 28 consecutive months of combat in North Africa and Europe. In the two decades since Conner's death, his family never wavered in their quest for the recognition that they knew he deserved – the Medal of Honor.

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un committed during their June 12 summit in Singapore to “recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.” Families of missing servicemembers said it's an important step.

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Garlin “Murl” Conner never wavered under fire during his 28 consecutive months of combat in North Africa and Europe. In the two decades since Conner's death, his family never wavered in their quest for the recognition that they knew he deserved – the Medal of Honor.

Out of the ashes of the Battle of Okinawa grew “one of the strongest alliances in the history of alliances,” between the United States and Japan, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson told U.S. Marines attending the memorial.

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The brothers' burial together in Normandy is a culmination of improbable events that included the review of a grave marked “unknown” in Belgium, a high school history project, a military forensics team review and a family gathering in Nebraska.

The school district from which Bob Lockard would have graduated in 1944 wants him to know no one forgot his sacrifices. Lockard will walk with 156 other Circleville Tigers at Sunday's commencement ceremony.

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The citation for retired Navy SEAL Britt Slabinksi’s Medal of Honor – an upgrade from the Navy Cross he initially received for his heroics – describes “a murderous hail of machine gun fire” greeting Slabinksi and his commando team as he “charged directly toward the enemy” up the mountainside.

The men bathed in the ocean and lived in tents. They’d repair the planes with aluminum cans or whatever they could get their hands on. And they couldn’t run on the beach because they'd sink in the dark sand and ash mixture from a volcano, Joe Tusa recalled.

Retired Air Force Col. Bruce Hollywood was done searching. As an adult, he had found his Japanese birth mother and thanked her. He didn't feel a need to find his father, who had been in the U.S. Air Force. Then, a few years ago, he grew curious.

One night in his Virginia home, Jimmy Hatch decided he was ready for all of the pain to stop. His wife had to snatch a gun from his hands and later knock a knife away before Norfolk police and members of his unit arrived to help. He details his painful experiences in his book "Touching the Dragon and Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars.”

A 52-year-old father of three and the 25-year-old survivor of a horrific attack that made headlines 11 years ago met in college and struck up a friendship.

Johnny Pearson and John Noga were swapping stories and sharing laughs one recent Sunday morning, exhibiting an easy rapport and deep camaraderie that suggests the two have a longtime friendship that can weather any obstacle.

When Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) robbed retired Marine Maj. Randy Hebert of his ability to drive his prized Corvette he raffled it off and the money raised paid for the beach access that carries his name.

Richard Overton is both the oldest man in America and the oldest U.S. veteran. He turns 112 on Friday.

Retired Gen. Crosbie Saint was the commander of U.S. Army Europe from 1988 to 1992, a period that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Seventy-five years after Anthony Grant set off on his first overseas trip — to fight in Europe during World War II — he’s still traveling the world courtesy of Uncle Sam.

When Ken Bosworth reminisces about his World War II service in the Marine Corps, it doesn’t exactly match up with Hollywood.

It was the bone-chilling northern European cold that Harry Miller faced as a teenager in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that the Army and Air Force veteran most prominently recalls about his 22-year military career that spanned three major wars.

Representing wars both a lifetime and a world apart, 95-year-old Don Jakeway and 38-year-old Navy Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator and Medal of Honor recipient Edward C. Byers Jr. were honored at a Statehouse ceremony in which they and 28 others were inducted into the Ohio Military Hall of Fame.