Before a packed house of family and friends of the late Augustus G. Brown, the Houma-Terrebonne Airport Commission on Thursday officially renamed the airport the Houma-Terrebonne Airport at Augustus Brown Field.

A statue of a Confederate soldier at the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery on the Hilltop, a federally owned site on the National Register of Historic Places where about 2,200 Confederate soldiers are buried, received support from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In the days before he turns 100, U.S. Navy veteran Sharitt Baker remembers stanching the flood of ocean water caused by Japanese gunfire that destroyed a section of the side of the destroyer he was fighting aboard.

A New York military aviation researcher got more than she bargained for on a dream trip to a battle-scarred South Pacific island — the chance to help solve the mystery of an American soldier listed as missing in action from World War II.

Reach Veteran Services of Terre Haute is opening a first-of-its-kind homeless shelter for veterans that aims to address root causes of chronic homelessness.

The bill immediately eliminates the 15-year limit veterans currently have to tap into their education benefits. That restriction will no longer apply to veterans discharged on or after Jan. 1, 2013, or to current and future servicemembers.

Army veteran David Rogers was assaulted by an off-duty Prince George's County police officer as he attempted to help a neighbor who was locked out of her car. The county was found liable in a recent court case.

Shulkin, who is Jewish, spoke to reporters and said that although he serves Trump, he does not speak for him. He declined to tell President Donald Trump it was wrong for him to equate their violence with that of counterprotesters who stood up to them.

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Walking around the Walter F. Bruce VFW Post, Johnny Wearing was able to say thank you and good-bye to the people most important to him, including his fellow World War II bomber crew members and their children.

Michael Cunningham, who served in the Army during the Vietnam War, traveled back to Vietnam with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to search for a member of his unit who was killed in a bombing but never recovered.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation making it easier for a Missouri World War II vet and others of his generation to receive benefits to treat conditions from secret mustard gas experiments they were subjected to more than 60 years ago.

Vietnam War Army veteran Dennis Korzi needed a shoulder replacement he knew from experience who he wanted to do the operation: orthopedic surgeon Rex Herbert, who left a booming private practice in Harrisburg in 2009 to join the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

The Minnesota attorney general’s office Wednesday filed suit against two companies that required veterans and senior citizens to sign over significant portions of their monthly pension payments in exchange for loans of relatively small sums, often to cover household emergencies and basic living expenses.

Allen Thayer's candidacy for Utica Common Council states that he's a veteran of the U.S. Marines. There's just one problem: He's not.

Currently, vets with many unique health needs not addressed in the Valley's smaller clinics must travel over the Altamont Pass into Bay Area traffic, usually all the way to the veterans hospital in Palo Alto. That typically takes a full day.

World War II veteran James Coppola, 91, was formally presented with the Bronze Star he earned more than 70 years ago, but he was quick to point out that all of the men he fought with deserve credit.

Nathan Damigo, a former Marine and convicted felon, is the founder of a white nationalist group, Identity Evropa. He is one of the organizers of a demonstration that led to racially charged violence during the weekend in Charlottesville, Va.

The exhibit at the Yorktown American Revolution Museum follows several men who fought during the Colonists’ victory at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 and how they built their lives once they returned home.

A VA Medical Center in Oklahoma has been using non-drug therapies, including an educational program called "Pain school," to reduce opioid prescriptions and help veterans manage pain.

Pfc. George B. Murray was just 20 when he was killed on Nov. 20, 1943 on the island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says remains located in 2010 were finally identified as Murray's through DNA.

A northern Indiana man was sentenced Tuesday after being convicted of murder in the January 2016 slaying 27-year-old Jodie Henderson, a member of the Army National Guard.

The booth, located at the Heroes Hall veterans museum in California, allows veterans and their loved ones to share their stories, which are then uploaded to a YouTube channel.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. William Turner, of Nashville, was an aerial engineer and crew member of the "Hell's Fury" B-26 bomber that was part of a massive air raid targeting Schiphol Aerodrome in Amsterdam on Dec. 13, 1943.

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A 93-year-old former Marine carried a calligraphy-covered flag to a small Japanese village Tuesday, keeping a battlefield promise he made more than seven decades ago.

A late Maryland man's 1940s Army uniform that ended up at a thrift store across the country is back with his family thanks to a kind stranger.

The remains of a North Dakota sailor who was killed at Pearl Harbor have been laid to rest in his home state.

The original memorial, called the Colored Citizens of Worcester Honor Roll, lists the names of 145 men and women of color from the city who enlisted through October 1943 to serve in the military during World War II. That memorial, taken down to make way for the construction of Interstate 290, has been missing since 1959.

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Monday's event at Veterans Memorial Park in Window Rock also commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Navajo Code Talkers Association. The U.S. Marine Corps laid a wreath at the park and honored code talkers who have died with a 21-gun salute.

An investigation discovered staff at a Spokane veterans affairs hospital ignored a hole in a roof that has been leaking water for about five years.

Physicians from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manchester can temporarily treat patients at outside facilities, according to an executive order signed by Gov. Chris Sununu on Monday.

Army veteran Gary Kilpatrick lives in a little house on East Jackson Street, with a little spaniel named Nah-Nah, and constant pain caused by arthritis and degenerative back disease.

The recent exhumation of an Army Vietnam veteran's body from the Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery was a rare invocation of federal laws aimed at keeping murderers and rapists out of veterans burial grounds, federal and state officials say.

Eleven veterans or their surviving spouses received Purple Hearts Saturday at a ceremony in Honolulu that, for some, was more than a half-century late.

A Veterans Affairs office in New Mexico during the 2015 fiscal year denied more than 90 percent of benefit claims related to Gulf War illnesses, marking the ninth-lowest approval rating among VA sites nationwide, according to a federal report.

In what his family believes was his last letter home, Sgt. Harold Davis wrote that his only dream was to see America again. He died Feb. 1, 1944 on Mount Kenevi in New Guinea. He was to be buried Saturday at the foot of his mother's grave.

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed a $3.9 billion funding deal for the Department of Veterans Affairs that will shore up the nearly bankrupt Veterans Choice Program and allow the VA to open 28 new clinics and implement new hiring programs.

John Seelie, a Cleveland native and Pearl Harbor survivor who was believed to be the last surviving veteran to witness the attack on Wheeler airfield there, died Friday morning in Port Charlotte, Florida.

Two Fort Worth men pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to playing a role in an alleged $36 million fraud scheme involving unnecessary lab tests of saliva and urine that were billed to the U.S. military's health care system.

Nearly 45 frustrating years of waiting and fighting with the federal government – and the help of Army veterans – brought Francis "Mac" McKenna, a former Air Force sergeant and munitions expert, the closure he sought for so long.

On Friday morning, World War II veteran Bob Goolsby, 95, and his wife, Jewell, 93, sat on their porch watching about 60 community volunteers work on exterior home improvement projects as part of a partnership between the city’s veterans service office, Home Depot, the Austin Police Department’s Explorers Program and Honor Flight Austin.

A new program offering Department of Veterans Affairs jobs to servicemembers leaving active duty is now accepting applicants for a Europe-based training course.

The young U.S. Marine spotted the dead Japanese soldier with something white poking out from his jacket. The Marine knelt and pulled out a silk flag, all the space around the bright red emperor's sun filled with elegant calligraphy. He hesitated, then took the flag. More than 70 years later, he is returning the Japanese flag to his fallen enemy's family.

A measure to stop funding for VA research that causes pain to dogs drew no opponents on the House floor. PVA Executive Director Sherman Gillums said he was frustrated that the potential medical benefits for veterans weren’t raised in debate on the measure.

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World War II veteran Donald “Don” Cobb traveled to France in July, as well as last year, returning to Normandy where he served in the U.S. Navy during D-Day.

A congressman who served in Afghanistan is championing an idea to request departing servicemembers sign an oath not to harm themselves, as a method to deter veteran suicides. But some suicide prevention experts contend the plan is likely to do the opposite.

Retired Chief Steward Andy Mills was one of the U.S. Navy's first black chiefs. Prior to a ceremony Thursday at the naval base in Coronado, California, Mills told reporters that he was overjoyed by the honor.

Some Manchester VA Medical Center providers will be seeing patients at Catholic Medical Center while repairs are made to the veterans hospital after recent flooding.

When loved ones reached out to help Army Sgt. Jeff Fredrickson deal with the horrors of war experienced during two tours of Iraq, he withdrew because he couldn't explain what he didn't understand. Along with a slew of debilitating symptoms associated with PTSD, Fredrickson wallowed in confusion about what had happened to his once promising future.

Mayor Scott Cain proclaimed Cleburne a Purple Heart city and Aug. 7 as Purple Heart Day before personally thanking the seven Purple Heart recipients in attendance.

The day-long conference is among the largest of its kind in the nation, and includes discussions on how to translate military skills to the civilian world, finding meaningful volunteer opportunities, and networking.

For months, Lanny H. Gagnier, Franklin County vice commander of the American Legion, has been cooking up a plan to get area veterans a cross-border trip with the Royal Canadian Legion. Now the last detail has been put in place and Mr. Gagnier can spread the word.

A three-part program will seek to identify veterans receiving medical care at Parkview Medical Center, as well as the hospital's veteran employees and volunteers, in order to celebrate their status as military vets.

The Department of Veterans Affairs was forced to take back the director of the Washington VA Medical Center who was fired after VA officials discovered the hospital was putting patients at risk.

It wasn’t until 1996 that WWII veteran Anderson Wilson could say he served in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops — now known as the Ghost Army.

More than 50 motorcycle riders and dozens of others lined up Tuesday outside the Michel Funeral Home in St. Louis to say goodbye to a man almost none of them knew.

Veteran “Mitch” Chockla is one of the Greatest Generation that pulled the United States and its allies through World War II, and his achievements on the battlefields of Europe are receiving added attention as he approaches a century of experience.

A former caretaker has been found guilty of nearly killing a 92-year-old World War II veteran by beating him with his oxygen tank.

James Prater insisted he's done nothing wrong and that he has the right to sell his house to whomever he chooses.

Two men were placed on 18 months of probation Monday after pleading no contest to accusations they killed a turtle and beat a Navy veteran in a case that sparked outrage. "This is their second chance. Their only second chance," the veteran said.

Several Camp Pendleton Marines help honor San Diego-area veterans as volunteers with the Escondido-based Elizabeth Hospice and the Carlsbad-based Hospice of the North Coast.

The families of seven dead U.S servicemen gathered on Monday to receive lost Purple Heart medals their loved ones had earned in four wars.

The letter followed Gunnery Sgt. Walter Schroder around the Pacific but wouldn't reach him till almost two years later on Parris Island – just 45 miles from where it had originally been mailed, in Walterboro.