French workers riot in the streets over tax hikes, economic inequality and perceptions that the country's rulers are out of touch. That was, of course, 1789 — when King Louis XVI helped the rich get tax exemptions and paid for it with his head. Today, some might see parallels for unpopular President Emmanuel Macron.

Those hairy first moments of the attack on FOB 4 in Vietnam still keep many of them awake at night. Speaking at the Special Operations Association memorial breakfast, Doug Godshall recalled the sounds of the battle: the explosions, the flares, the “shouts of desperation.”

The new addition to the International Museum of World War II's permanent collection is a life ring that was aboard the USS Arizona when it was sunk by Japanese fighter planes on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.

“I thought in retrospect, I was darn near the scene of a president that bought the farm,” retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton said. “It was a pretty harrowing experience for him.”

On Aug. 28, 1968, the streets of Chicago exploded into violence. Antiwar protesters, defiant and bloodied, poured onto Michigan Avenue, determined to reach the International Amphitheatre, where the Democratic National Convention was in its third day.

Fifteen veterans of one of America’s bloodiest wars retraced their steps through the former battlegrounds of Vietnam. Follow their journey as they reflect on what it means to return decades later to a place all them once desperately wanted to escape.

“I don’t know that Hollywood could create as authentic a story about Iraq or Afghanistan or people on their fourth, fifth, sixth tours of duty that couldn’t be told much, much better by a documentary or caring news media,” actor Tom Hanks said. “It’s a tough thing.”

George H.W. Bush died on Friday, just a week before the country marks the 77th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — an event that would change his life.

A short six months into her military nursing career, Helen Faso was ordered to Korea where she would work in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, commonly known as a M.A.S.H. unit.

A World War I soldier's uniform jacket has been returned to his family in Claysville, a piece of history they never knew existed.

Amid the fanfare marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, little has been said about the more than 1 million African soldiers, laborers and porters who were vital actors in the war in Europe and especially in battles on the African continent.

When Robert H. Campbell was hired as a Courier Journal reporter in December 1964, he couldn't type and seemed to know little about writing a newspaper story.

There was nothing about the hungry, bedraggled man who surrendered at a remote desert checkpoint belonging to the United States' Kurdish allies this year to suggest he had once played a part in one of the biggest events in American history.

After spending billions of dollars over several decades to remove radioactive waste leaking from a plant where nuclear bombs were made, the Energy Department has come up with a new plan: leave it in the ground.

In the past few weeks, Kabul has been flooded with images of Gen. Abdul Raziq Achakzai, 39, a fearsome police commander and anti-insurgent fighter who was gunned down Oct. 18 near his headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar.

The effort to memorialize the 129 men who were lost aboard the USS Thresher on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery got a boost this month with approval from the cemetery's advisory committee.

As workers replace and add chain-link fences around rotting dormitories and graffitied ranch houses at the old North Truro Air Force Station on Cape Cod, officials agree that a plan for a vibrant cultural center has gone nowhere.

The Tsukuba Naval Air Corps Museum, which has a collection of about 2,000 items donated by former corps members and their families, has about 150 items, including the last wills and testaments written by members of a suicide attack squads, on display.

In the lead-up to a historic summit Sunday in Brussels, where a Brexit deal is expected to be rubber-stamped, tiny Gibraltar suddenly loomed large. It literally put Britain's European Union divorce settlement between "The Rock" and a hard place for a time.

Despite witnessing how the war had ravaged the hearts, minds and bodies of countless American soldiers, WWII combat nurse Lt. Leila Allen Morrison and her fellow female nurses were blocked at the gate when they arrived at Buchenwald. The soldiers were trying to shield the women from the "deplorable" conditions of the camp.

The Civil Air Patrol in Pennsylvania was involved in home front defense almost from day one. Three weeks after the U.S. declared war on Japan, The Sentinel published a United Press article on Dec. 29, 1941, calling on the state’s 8,000 civilian pilots and student flyers to volunteer and do their part in service squadrons that were being organized.

The names of the 15 Valley Forge High School alumni who died during the war in Vietnam were affixed to an honor roll plaque that has hung in the school for decades. But in May of 2017, some students decided that something more could and should be done to honor the memory of those fallen grads.

They stood in silence or whispered as the breeze rustled the remaining leaves on the trees, and a distant bell tolled the hour. At the top of hill, the flag at the Arlington mansion snapped in the wind, and a hawk soared overhead.

After a stint in the Marines and various other jobs, Donald McCaig established himself as one of America's leading chroniclers of the rural life, a master stylist whose understated prose — often featured in the NPR program "All Things Considered."

Ray Chavez surged into national prominence three years ago when fellow Pearl Harbor veterans recognized him as the oldest survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack that ushered the U.S. into World War II.

Charles Houston Harris, 22, the U.S. Navy electrician's mate 3rd class assigned to the USS Oklahoma, grew up outside Jena in the small community of Good Pine with his eight brothers and sisters in the 1920s and 1930s, census records show.

The 440-foot-long gray vessel is one of only two fully operational Liberty ships, which transported vast numbers of military personnel and countless tons of cargo during the war — and the only one sailing regularly out of the port city where it was built.

Over the course of 76 hours, 961 Marines and sailors were killed trying to take the heavily defended Japanese outpost on the tiny isle of Betio between Nov. 20 to 23, 1943.

In 1917, 118 black soldiers were charged with murder, mutiny, aggravated assault and disobeying orders after a race riot in Houston. Nineteen of the soldiers were eventually hanged.

Chelsey Poisson's hypothesis was that between pre- and postdeployment, servicemembers whose trash was burned in open pits experienced a significant decrease in fitness and increase in medical symptoms lasting more than a month. Her results, she said, confirmed her hypothesis.

House Resolution 2315 would posthumously award each of the four Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive.

The little girl was so adored by Adolf Hitler that his personal photographer frequently snapped pictures of the two them holding hands, exchanging kisses on the cheek, or just smiling at each other. Hitler refused to cut off contact with her even after he was told she had a Jewish grandmother.

Dorothy Jones served in the Navy during World War II and was involved in classified communications. Her work was so secret that she never talked about it to anyone outside of her family -- and even then only sparingly.

Although she began working at 13, Helen Holloway's first job as a Rosie was test-firing army rifles when she was 17 years old.

The National Archives and The National Archives Foundation exhibit “Remembering Vietnam” provides a plethora of information and artifacts on the Vietnam War.

Women have served in the military since the Revolutionary War -- mostly unrecognized and under-appreciated until recent times, Teresa Shane, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2513 commander, said.

On the 100th anniversary of the "War to End All Wars," Walter Johnson's grandson John Sharples decided it was time to unlock the chest's treasures: All of the things Johnson took home with him when he was discharged shortly after the end of the war.

Daily letters home chronicled Squire Utsler's service, from the first day of boot camp on Aug. 18, 1943, until he hitchhiked from California to arrive home in Enid on Christmas Eve 1945.

At that time, Ronald Reagan was the first sitting U.S. president to have visited Beaufort County since President Franklin Roosevelt, who traveled by train from Yemassee to Port Royal in April 1943.

John B. "Jack" Cummings was 22, a handsome college man headed off to World War II from Juneau, Wisconsin, where his family, no doubt, prayed he would return. But on Dec. 31, 1944, near the French village of Neuhaeusel on the Rhine River, he vanished from his foxhole.

It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, but for Andres S. Ribera, once a laborer at a hotel in Santa Fe, it seemed the first two days he spent in battle would never end.

A monument to American troops who fought at Resaca de la Palma on May 9, 1846, is about to be removed and re-installed at the Palo Alto Historical National Battlefield Park about five miles north on Paredes Line Road.

Dozens of former Army nurses from across the country gathered Sunday around the bronze sculpture on the National Mall that's dedicated to their service in the Vietnam War.

Ten days after Chilton “Chilly” Raiford received the Purple Heart, the Rappahannock County resident died, on Aug. 14, 2018, at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center. He was 95.

Arlington National Cemetery had never seen a funeral quite like the one that was held the morning of Nov. 11, 1921. The nation's highest military officers were there, along with congressional leaders, Supreme Court justices, diplomats from around the world and a crowd so huge the president's car was forced to drive across fields for him to get there in time.

Words jotted down a century ago rang true Friday afternoon when the public and the Carlisle Barracks community converged on the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.

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Today, as solemn official ceremonies to mark the 100th anniversary take place in many parts of the world, we look back at Japan’s role in the war and how that role shaped the country domestically and on the international stage.

Mules, dogs and pigeons were among the many types of animals that were a vital — and for decades overlooked — part of the Allied war machine.

Eve of Destruction, on display in the U.S. Army Transportation Museum, is the last of the giant trucks that soldiers in Vietnam built up with makeshift armor to craft a highly effective weapon not officially approved by the Pentagon.

Everywhere you look inside the new National Veterans Memorial and Museum, there are stories. Here are three from veterans featured there.

Perhaps the quickest way to start an argument with the Dalton brothers is to suggest that — because they all served in the U.S. military during World War II — they might be heroes. It also might be the quickest way to bring them together.

On July 30, 1943, an American B-17F bomber, heading home to its base in England after a raid over Kassel, Germany, was shot down and crashed in a field at Opijnen, Netherlands. Villagers looked up to see men falling out of the sky.

The idea for the National Veterans Memorial and Museum started with one veteran. Astronaut John Glenn, a former Marine, U.S. senator and Ohio resident, wanted a special, sacred place to honor and connect veterans and teach others about their service.

Before World War I, the U.S. military was 140,000 strong; by the end of the war, the military's ranks swelled to 2 million. Seventy percent of the ranks were new draftees: One of them was Samuel Marcus. He left behind his family and girlfriend, Ann, and was totally unprepared for what he found when he arrived in France.

During the visit to Fort Bragg, Hubert Edwards shared stories from the 37 months he spent fighting in World War II. That included 660 days on the front lines, spread across four major invasions that included North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France.

On final morning of World War I, U.S. troops would push forward on several fronts in France until the minute a cease-fire took effect at 11 a.m. With more time, the Americans might even have entered Germany soon after, establishing themselves as the world's ascendant military power.

After a more than two-year-long, $30 million renovation that touched nearly every part of the building and grounds, the Soldiers Memorial reopened in downtown St. Louis Saturday with fanfare and a host of new exhibits.

Nearing the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the push is on to recall and honor the men and women of Illinois, and all across America, who suffered and sacrificed for their nation.

Brad Hillyer and Kurt Shelley will be in Vittarville, France, to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I. They will lay a wreath and visit the spot where their grandfather fired one of the last artillery shells fired in anger at the Germans during the conflict.

There are plans to organize a conference of donors in January to develop Ethiopian archaeology, preserve existing sites and maybe explore new ones. More investment in the field could shed light on little-known parts of the country's history. Perhaps more important, it may bring clarity to some of the modern debates roiling Ethiopia.

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When the name of the place you hold dear suddenly becomes synonymous with tragedy, the emotional impact can be searing and the aftereffects can linger for months, years, even generations.

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Foster B. Stevens, 83 Co. U.S. Marines, died in France on Nov. 2, just nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. But exactly where and how he served - and where and how he died - was a mystery.

This week, the National Park Service announced an archaeological dig last summer at Arlington National Cemetery turned up rare fragments of the "states china," a set of dishware made in China for first lady Martha Washington over 200 years ago by a Dutch admirer of the United States.

The National Park Service announced Monday that the USS Arizona Memorial’s dock repair will not be completed until March, when visitor access will resume.

George Washington really did sleep here, or in Waterford, Pa., anyway, during his visit to the French commander at Fort LeBoeuf on Dec. 15, 1753.

They married on November 30, 1973. But things were never right. Months before they met, he had been evicted from the Navy on an "undesirable" discharge rap. Over a $10 bag of marijuana.

After World War II, the Allies decided to dump 300,000 metric tons of munitions into the ocean, which appeared to be the safest and most easily accessible disposal ground. But some of the weapons – including land mines containing mustard gas – were simply dropped into the Baltic and North seas rather than being taken to faraway dump sites.

Republicans had pushed for more than a year to establish a national monument at Camp Nelson in Nicholasville, Ky., which served as one of the largest recruitment and training depots for United States Colored Troops.

From the wars on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Vietnam War and World War II, Fort Benning has been at the center of training men and women for conflicts around the world.

To mark the anniversary of the signing of the armistice at the end of World War I, arts groups are staging plays, performing a new, epic symphony and bringing back a favorite opera.

The frayed Dec. 28, 1774, edition of the "Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser" boasts three items signed by John Hancock, then president of the Provincial Congress, who pleads for the Colonies to fight back "enemies" trying to divide them.

In early October, East Island was decimated by Hurricane Walaka - one of the most intense storms ever recorded in the Pacific Ocean - and effectively wiped off the map overnight.

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The pilot of a small vintage plane with German fighter aircraft markings that crash-landed on the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills on Tuesday decided to set down on the roadway after the plane’s engine began to fail.

President Donald Trump is facing criticism for stating what many observers of his politics and rhetoric would say is obvious: that he is a nationalist.

When French President Emmanuel Macron hosts world leaders for the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I next month, there will be no tanks or missiles in the streets, and - pointedly - no celebration of national triumph.

While animals and bacteria would usually decompose a wooden shipwreck's remains within centuries, the 75-foot-long Greek shipwreck lay undisturbed for more than 2,400 years, researchers with the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project said

When artist Abbe Godwin took on the task of designing the 6-foot statue of a Marine that now stands watch at the Beirut Memorial, she was given a very specific concept to follow. But bringing to life the Marine in The Peacekeeper was more than molding a sculpture into a figure for Godwin.

She was a pioneering pilot, flying planes for the military during WWII, a coder in the early days of computers and a tireless community advocate. And now, one Walnut Creek resident is on a quest to rename Oakland International Airport in her honor.

Around midnight on Oct. 26, 1958, Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small were taking a drive by Loch Raven Reservoir in Towson, Md., when they said a great, iridescent, egg-shaped object appeared above a bridge.

When it was time to train our boys for World War II, the military used thousands of sites around the United States. That included dropping a heck of a lot of bombs; some were made just for training, but others were the real deal.

While 35 years have passed since the Oct. 23, 1983 Beirut bombing, the date remains etched in the minds of Jacksonville, N.C. community members — as well as the memorial that stands in tribute to the nearly 300 lives lost in the blast.

Hungary plans to open the House of Fates next year to pay tribute to the children who died in the Holocaust. But the project has prompted critics to say it whitewashes Hungary's wartime role in the murder of Jews.

Robert Almquist has fond memories of his time on the USS Oakland during World War II. His home in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin is a testament to that; it’s a museum of sorts filled with figurines, military citations and plaques from different war ships. But one thing is missing for this 95-year-old veteran.

Forty years ago Saturday, the Coast Guard Cutter Cuyahoga was cruising north on Chesapeake Bay when it was struck by a 521-foot Argentine coal freighter. Eleven men died.

The latest evidence of trauma’s long shadow comes from the families of American Civil War veterans. Focused on the children of Union soldiers who were held in Confederate prisoner of war camps, it offers tantalizing clues about the means by which a legacy of misery is transmitted from parent to child — as well as a way to disrupt that inheritance.

When the sub failed to arrive at the Panama Canal in October 1943, unsuccessful searches were launched in the Caribbean. A Navy Court of Inquiry decided Dorado had probably been the victim of friendly fire.

The Cyclops, playing a key naval refueling role since the U.S. entry into World War I the previous year, was expected to complete the 2,000-mile journey in nine days.

The grave of a Civil War veteran buried in the Lewisburg Cemetery is unmarked no more. The cemetery's president unearthed Army records and an obituary to prove it was Corporal Milton Airey buried without a headstone between the marked graves of his brothers.

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President Donald Trump embarked on a lesson of the Civil War while speaking to an audience in Ohio on Friday, praising generals on both sides and telling the story of President Lincoln's relationship with Ulysses S. Grant in characteristically populist terms.

Mona Gunn realizes she's fortunate to have a support system in place when she misses her son Cherone, who was killed in the 2000 attack on the Norfolk-based USS Cole in Yemen.

Washington and Lee University will rename two buildings and make changes at Lee Chapel, part of several moves as the private university confronts its complicated history.

Less than a week before being shipped off to Hawaii to serve as a pilot in World War II, 2nd Lt. Elwood Bailey married his high school sweetheart. Two months later, in August 1942, while battling in aerial combat in Guadalcanal in the Pacific, he went missing in action.

The stories of eight recipients of the nation's highest military honor will be told in the docudrama series "Medal of Honor" on Netflix.

City records show 5,400 people perished in the 1918 pandemic. Also hard hit were young servicemembers at military camps at Fort McHenry, Camp Meade and Edgewood Arsenal.

It might be one of the most famous photographs ever taken of a Syracuse resident. Taken on Sept. 3, 1945, it shows World War II soldier Bernard "Bud" Stapleton raising the first American flag over Tokyo, just one day after the formal Japanese surrender. Bombed out buildings can be seen in the background.

A helicopter crash in Kuwait provides the green Mortuary Affairs unit members with a chance to learn about recovery scenes from experts of the National Transportation Safety Board. "When sections of the helo burn and melt," Marine Gunnery Sgt. Christian Bussler writes in his memoir. "They can resemble bone or burned flesh."

A World War II B-24 bomber gunner and longtime Kettering resident will receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his military service.

Less than a week before being shipped off to Hawaii to serve as a pilot in World War II, 2nd Lt. Elwood Bailey married his high school sweetheart. Two months later, in August 1942, while battling in aerial combat in Guadalcanal in the Pacific, he went missing in action.

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Claude Alexander Rowe Jr. of Chula Vista, who served in the armed forces of two allied nations during World War II, was laid to rest Friday at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego with full military honors, including a gun salute and a "missing man" formation flyby of WWII-era fighters. Rowe died on Sept. 20 at age 97.

Jesse Colvin is approaching his quest to unseat Rep. Andy Harris, R, in Maryland's solidly red 1st Congressional District the way one might expect a former military intelligence officer would chase an elusive target. But it could be an ill-fated mission for the first-time candidate.

Former Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II was originally awarded the Silver Star for his actions on April 6, 2008, while assigned to support Special Operations Task Force 33, but his award was upgraded to the nation's highest military honor upon review.

Charles McDaniel, Jr. held onto a precious few things that made his father real. A handwritten letter and a single memory of his dad sweeping him up in his arms. Now there is the dog tag. “This was around my father’s neck,” he said with a tone of wonder that he could ever be this close to him.

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.

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.

“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.

By the fall of 1942, Casimer L. "Casey" Bukowski decided he had learned enough about being a machinist and quit Emerson Vocational High School to put his skills to work in support of World War II.

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When David Carrasco got to the funeral home on Monday morning, he wasn't sure what he would find. But he wanted to pay his respects to the man who had represented Arizona in the Senate for 31 years, and who had fought in the same faraway Vietnam War he had, decades earlier: Sen. John McCain.

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.