Thousands of Chinese American veterans will finally be recognized for their service in World War II, 74 years after the war ended. Last December, President Donald Trump signed a bill that would honor them with a Congressional Gold Medal, one of the nation's highest civilian awards.

Harold Cantrell, a retired school teacher and a U.S. Navy veteran who served during the Korean War, went missing July 5, 2017, less than six weeks after he was admitted to an assisted living facility in Daytona Beach, Florida.

At least 200,000 U.S. troops participated in atomic tests and cleanup operations during World War II and later in the Pacific Ocean, the Nevada desert, New Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. They took the human brunt of deadly ionizing radiation that contaminated nearby lands, water and communities.

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A memorial Monday at an Alaska National Guard armory will celebrate a Special Forces veteran whose role in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria was relatively unknown before he died in a climbing accident last month.

The Balance of State Continuum of Care, which covers Mississippi outside of the Jackson Metro and Gulf Coast areas, has earned certification for creating a comprehensive system to address veteran homelessness, based on the criteria set by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

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The VA, Department of Defense and other agencies have implemented community integration resources for veterans and servicemembers to become more connected to mental health professionals and the services they offer, but there needs to be increased awareness of these services.

On Saturday, 534 deceased veterans will be inducted into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s “In Memory Program” as part of an annual three-day ceremony held every June in Washington, D.C. More than 400 of the honorees this year died as a result of Agent Orange exposure.

After two stints in Afghanistan, Marine veteran Chris Jones, now a civilian photographer, came back to Helmand – the province that has claimed more coalition troops’ lives than any other in the 18-year war – driven partly by a long-simmering question: Had the blood he and his comrades shed here led to any lasting change?

A South Carolina funeral home is asking people to come to the funeral of a 75-year-old Navy veteran who has no family to claim him.

As a college student during WWII, Japanese-American James Okubo was forced to drop out of Western Washington University and enter an internment camp. Now, the school is posthumously recognizing Okubo's academic achievements.

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Turlock resident James Albert Dick and Modesto resident Byron Allan Selvage II survived combat in the Vietnam War, but their exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange contributed to their deaths 50 years later.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported earlier this year that the nation’s overall total of opioid-related deaths increased by 12% from 2016 to 2017, with 47,600 deaths attributable to opioids in that latter year.

After serving a little more than 22 years in the U.S. Army, Paul Moser has swapped one uniform for another. His latest attire: a light blue polo shirt, black pants, tennis shoes and a ball cap.

Veterans advocates say the newly passed the Blue Water Veterans Act will actually deny benefits to the thousands of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals the measure was designed to help.

One dollar from each pint of the new IPA sold will go to a veterans outreach group in Pennsylvania.

Some 200 parachutists who filled the Normandy skies for the 75th anniversary of D-Day, including Tom Rice, who ending up landing in roughly the same area he did on D-Day.

It's the fifth cross-country journey Rodney Smith Jr. has made to mow lawns for people in need.

When John Frey’s family requested 101 birthday cards to celebrate the World War II veteran’s 101st birthday in Utah, they were expecting to get 500 at most.

For veterans, the primary barrier to treatment is the stigma associated with seeking mental health services, which male veterans in particular consider a sign of weakness.

As the nation recognized Flag Day, Xcel Energy announced it was named to the 2019 Military Times Best for Vets Employers rankings, the sixth straight year the company has received the honor.

The French Consulate on Thursday awarded Alan Hall with the French Legion of Honor, an award given to French citizens and foreign nationals who "served France or the ideals it upholds."

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that Navy Seaman 1st Class Frank Hryniewicz was accounted for on Jan. 28.

World War II veteran Dick Wood was a a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber in the U.S. Army Air Force, spent 20 years after the war serving as a counselor for people battling with addiction.

More than 51 years after the USS Pueblo's seizure, America's confiscation of a North Korean freighter is stirring hopes for an exchange among veterans, thanks at least in part to a symbolic Congressional resolution introduced in the House on Wednesday.

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Derek Cincotta was in the open hatch of a World War II warplane, fighting the wind and looking down at a quilted French countryside thousands of feet below. The man running the drop yelled "Go!" and the immediate rush, as Cincotta leapt from the plane and focused on his body positioning, resolved into calm once he pulled his parachute.

Army Sgt. George H. Schaefer, Jr. was a junior in high school when he dropped out, unwilling to wait until graduation to join the military and serve the country in the Vietnam War. In the year that marks the 50th anniversary of his graduation, Schaefer will march with his high school's Class of 2019.

Merle Smith, a sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor returned home this week. His previously unidentified remains had been buried in an unmarked grave at Punchbowl National Cemetery near Pearl Harbor for decades.

The No. 1 issue for military spouses is finding employment, Vice President Mike Pence's wife, Karen Pence, told military families in Billings Wednesday.

The federal government owes at least $189 million to 53,000 disabled veterans who overpaid on their home loans, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs' inspector general.

Hershel “Woody” Williams, 95, was in the Quad Cities to give a community presentation Friday at Rock Island Arsenal and attend the Army Ball. Williams says says Quad Cities is the perfect place for a Gold Star Families memorial monument.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn’t track how many veterans it deports or consider a person’s military service before deporting them, a federal watchdog agency reported Thursday.

Gov. Kate Brown has designated a statewide observance recognizing women veterans for the first time in Oregon history, Wednesday, June 12, is recognized as Women Veterans Day.

Sometime later this month, a former Army staff sergeant from Albion, N.Y., will stand before the president of the United States, who will drape around his neck the nation's highest military award for his heroics in the Iraq War.

Wherever he goes, 98-year-old Ray Lambert wears his purple cap with the words "D-Day Survivor" embroidered in gold. And wherever he goes, he is celebrated. Lambert was back in France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Miss Montana spent four hours Thursday cruising over the beaches of Normandy on the 75th anniversary of D-Day. She rumbled with a dozen of her new DC-3 airplane friends over Sword Beach, Juno, Gold Beach, Omaha and Utah, all the places on the coastline of France where the turnabout of war and world war history began in 1944.

A little-known rule — one the VA has never issued any policies or guidance on — makes help on home loans inaccessible to veterans who work in the cannabis industry, according to a group of about two dozen lawmakers.

After more than 100 surgeries, including the last just weeks ago to finally repair wounds on his haunches, retired U.S. Marine Cpl. Clark Cavalier is this year's honoree for the Faces of Valor foundation.

The Improving Legal Services for Female Veterans Act would require the VA to partner with at least one outside organization to provide legal services, such as help with child support issues, for female veterans.

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Harold Amstutz was born on June 14, 1925, but considered June 6, 1944, his real birthday. "He felt like he was reborn there," Susan Amstutz, said of her father who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

Navy veteran Walter Wilhelm worked in weapons aboard the USS Coral Sea off the coast of Vietnam during the war. What happened after he returned home from military service in 1976 turned into a living hell for him -- he lost his marriage and lost his children, among other traumatic events.

Ana Garcia Cowan, who told herself she could be a champion bodybuilder before she joined the Army and served in Iraq and Kuwait, has achieved the goal she wrote down in a notebook so long ago.

The Greater Cleveland Fisher House — two buildings each with 16 guest suites — is expected to host more than 1,000 families a year.

Erie School Director Tom Spagel, a retired major in the U.S. Army Reserve, and fellow advocates for military veterans have accomplished a big part of a mission, launched months ago, to take over ownership and maintenance of the triangle-shaped park that is home to five war memorials.

When Army Pvt. William Myack returned home to Scranton, Pa., in 1944 after serving in Europe during WWII, the wounded Purple Heart recipient couldn't find work. To pay for food, he sold his Purple Heart. On Friday, Myack's 94-year-old sister Mary Usckizczy received a new Purple Heart on her late brother's behalf.

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I make old soldiers cry. Old sailors, too. And airmen. Even Marines. Makes no difference. I know that makes me sound cruel. But I had to do it.

The tireless founders of the Northwest Montana Veterans Stand Down and Food Pantry have been leading volunteer troops for more than 20 years to help veterans. Their latest project is transforming the long defunct Swan River Correctional Training Center near Condon, Mont., into the Camp Ponderosa Veterans Retreat and Learning Center in the Swan Valley.

Now-retired Pennsylvania optometrist Dr. Arthur Duppstadt was 20 when his P-51 Mustang fighter plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

About 134 people lived in Bushong, Kansas, during World War II, and about 40 students attended Bushong High School. Four young men, including two brothers, from the town all died together on a ship at Omaha Beach on D-Day.

On Friday, with his family, officials and the school's 2,800 students cheering, World War II Phil Montano, 94, walked along into the Valencia High School's Bradford Stadium and fulfilled his dream of getting a diploma.

Steven Lombardi encountered the gunman, disgruntled Army veteran Albert Wong, minutes after his arrival to the veterans home. The sound of Wong racking his weapon to load ammunition and the subsequent high-pitched scream of one of three women held hostage inside, prompted Lombardi to open fire from a partially open door at the suspect.

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As the big-band classic "All Or Nothing At All" piped into Sorrentino's headphones, he was no longer a 96-year-old battling dementia. He was 20, an Army combat engineer heading across the English Channel to invade France in June 1944.

Veterans who took part in World War II invasion of Normandy, "an awesome responsibility far beyond their years," were honored Thursday in a 75th anniversary ceremony at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

What has traditionally been a strong entrepreneurial trend among veterans is facing a generational decline. One veteran's solution is something like a dating website, but instead of logging on to find a love connection, wannabe business owners can look for a match among companies for sale.

The Pentagon is working to make the standard military service discharge form — the DD-214 — fully electronic and looking to implement recommendations from a recent report that would include improving the accuracy and privacy of servicemembers records.

Standing on the windswept beaches and bluffs of Normandy, a dwindling number of aging veterans of history's greatest air and sea invasion received the thanks and praise of a world transformed by their sacrifice.

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"OK, Dad," Uncle Dick asked. "What are you most proud of in your life?" I think I half expected my grandfather to say the time he shot even-par 72. What could be better than that? This was chitchat, brag-about-the-family stuff, set up on a tee. Instead, he knocked us over with his response. "D-Day," he said.

After Britain's spirited anniversary tribute to the derring-do of the Allied forces that set off from England to defend democracy, the commemoration will be comparatively solemn in France, the country where so many young lives ended in sand and sea on June 6, 1944.

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While June 6 is a date remembered around the world, just a few days before, the Texas National Guard's 36th Infantry Division – known as the "Texas Army" – had pulled off a brilliant overnight maneuver known as the "breakout at Anzio," which led to the immediate fall of Rome on June 3 and 4.

A sailor killed 75 years ago in World War II is finally back home in Georgia. Seaman Deward Duncan was killed in action in the South Pacific in 1944. He was 19.

Manuel Atanay was 20 when he hit the beach with the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, in the first 30 minutes of the landings. Omaha was the bloodiest of the five code-named D-Day beaches. Atanay's son, Randall, tried to retrace his father's steps on Thursday. He broke down and sobbed.

Raymond Loring Chambers, a 93-year-old Navy veteran, was presented with medals he never knew he had earned while fighting in the Pacific theater.

Key members of Congress want the Trump administration to address charges of a "secret" Veterans Affairs wait list that has a higher number of patients seeking medical care than information publicly available.

The last World War II Mohawk Code Talker, Louis Levi Oakes of the Saint Regis tribe, died Tuesday at the age of 94. Oakes saw action in the South Pacific, New Guinea and Philippines theaters, and was awarded the Silver Star.

The sea of mercury blue couldn't have been more peaceful as the sun rose Thursday over Omaha Beach. About 100 people gathered at dawn on the edge of the waters that ran red here on June 6, 1944, the first of five code-named beaches where Allied forces came ashore to push the Nazis out of France.

Charities with less than $1 million in annual revenue are considered small and make up about 7% of the veteran-serving nonprofit world. Yet, they often provide key services.

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The VA's national director of clinic practice management said figures from internal reports indicate the actual number of veterans waiting for VA health care could be much higher than the numbers the VA makes publicly available. The VA press secretary said the allegations are false.

A former Marine suspected of killing a 30-year-old woman after she left a Costa Mesa, Calif., restaurant has been charged with murder 43 years later, authorities said Friday.

In an interview with Barstool Sports’ Zero Blog Thirty podcast, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said while serving as a Marine field artillery officer in Iraq, his unit had “killed probably hundreds of civilians, if not scores, if not hundreds of civilians” and “probably women and children.”

Matthew Solon was out with friends in Kennesaw, Ga., in June 2017 when he says he was approached by a belligerently drunk man who threatened them with a gun. Solon says he drew on his military training to disarm the man. He then called 911 and was arrested when police arrived.

Harry Stewart survived 43 combat missions during World War II and is one of only a dozen remaining Tuskegee Airmen from the famed “Red Tails” fighter group still alive.

When the flat-bottomed landing craft stormed the beaches of Normandy, spilling seasick and terrified soldiers into a rain of gunfire, their drivers steered with experience gained during training in South Florida.

imultaneous ceremonies in three cities will mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day through the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation. The day will hold two purposes: To honor those who served but also to further the foundation's educational goals.

A 35-year-old veteran said he was denied a loan in January because he was an assistant manager of a licensed cannabis store.

Nelson Henry, 95, of Philadelphia, received word Monday from the Army Correction of Military Records office that his discriminatory “blue discharge” from 1945 because he was black has been changed to honorable. He called the unanimous decision by a three-member board a miracle.

The Braille flag is much smaller than a traditional flag, made of bronze instead of cloth and mounted on a post in the ground. The Stars and Stripes design is raised on the bronze so the blind can feel it, and the Pledge of Allegiance is written on it in Braille as well.

Jeff Ferguson wants local veterans to be proactive in seeking help for themselves and for future generations whose lives could be affected by exposure to Agent Orange and burn pits.

Millions have viewed Peter B. DuPré's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" since he played it at a U.S. women's national soccer team match this weekend.

Vietnam War veteran Frank Romeo, nearing the end of his 750-mile journey across New York State, said he was anything but tired as he continued his campaign to raise awareness for war veterans struggling with PTSD.

A Vietnam War veteran presented two of his medals posthumously to a University of North Carolina-Charlotte ROTC cadet who was killed when he tackled a gunman who opened fire inside a classroom.

Retired Adm. William McRaven, who commanded many servicemembers and served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2015 to 2018, said people who denigrate millennials are wrong.

Thousands of spectators lined Constitution Avenue in the nation's capital Monday to pay tribute to the past and present U.S. military in the National Memorial Day Parade.

Tony “4 Fingers” Stannard started tattooing when he was in high school. This week, he’ll be featured on a new TV show. “Hero Ink” debuts on A&E on June 6 and centers around tattoo artists who have special connections with first responders.

Petty Officer James Francis Tritt was landing aircraft at night aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam when he went overboard. His body was never recovered.

Veterans from across Long Island received acupuncture and massages, participated in yoga and learned about alternative treatments for stress and post-traumatic stress disorder at Saturday's sixth annual Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project in Center Moriches.

Army veteran Mark Steven Domingo was planning to detonate a bomb at a Long Beach white nationalist rally in April before he was intercepted by law enforcement officials, authorities said.

The house will feature things designed to meet LeRoy's needs, including iPad-controlled lights, wider hallways, a transfer bench in the shower and a contraption to help him reach items in kitchen cabinets.