Their work became more urgent this summer, after a Government Accountability Office report disclosed that the VA denies more than 80 percent of veterans’ claims for Gulf War-associated illnesses.

Life could only get better for Danny Keenan after a Navy medic found him as an abandoned infant on the steps of an infirmary at a U.S. base in South Korea in 1953.

After serving in Afghanistan and recently summiting Mount Kilimajaro, former Marine Corps Sgt. Kirstie Ennis is ready to call Glenwood Springs home.

On a quiet Thursday evening in 1965, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace James A. Brennan left his office to perform a wedding at the Dunes Hotel. When he got back, he was shocked to find more than 50 couples waiting for him at the Clarke County Courthouse. It was a bridal wave.

Authorities are accusing a Minneapolis nurse of stealing drugs from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center on 34 separate days.

John "Jack" Ehrbar saw the skies explode with blasts of antiaircraft fire directed at Japanese kamikaze aircraft. He rode out a typhoon in a ship that had all the seagoing capability of a cork, as he described it. He wouldn't take a million dollars for the experience, but he also wouldn't take a nickel to do it all over again.

50 years after the war's peak years of 1967 and 1968, accusations of collaboration show how bitter divisions over the war extended even to the prison camps, and how deep they remain.

Dozens of veterans from the Navajo Nation were commended for their service during the Vietnam era in a ceremony and lapel pin presentation as part of efforts by the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration.

A new law requiring California to track veteran suicides was applauded Friday by the two Fresno legislators who authored the bill, the brother of a fallen Marine and a Visalia assemblyman and veteran who had a personal reason to support it.

But it isn't just the novelty of a man running across Iowa in a gas mask that has intrigued so many. It's Joshua Jorgensen's cause — raising awareness of veteran suicide and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — that has really piqued the public's interest.

Republican John James, a political newcomer and West Point graduate who flew Army helicopters in the Iraq War, said Thursday that he is running for U.S. Senate because voters want someone like him who has "relevant experience."

The Library of Congress has digitized a newly donated batch of African-American soldiers from the Great War. Between 370,000 and 400,000 African Americans served during World War I.

The VA doctors told Vietnam veteran Mike Sanzaro that he rated a Purple Heart. The problem was, with four decades having gone by and no medical records of the event, he would have to find a witness. Sanzaro decided not to pursue the medal he deserved. Family members and fellow Marines had other ideas.

Four decades later, the memory of the wind and rain and deadly fire is as vivid as ever for Marine Corps veteran Joe Macdonald.

The Pentagon says the remains of a western New York soldier killed during the Korean War will be buried this weekend in Pennsylvania.

Yes, women served as parachute riggers and welders, and eventually became drill sergeants and pilots. But the first woman to join the Marine Corps was the 39-year-old wife of an orchestra conductor.

Even from 40 miles away, with his eyes closed and covered, Jim Attleson saw a blinding flash of light like a laser through his arms. The shock wave from the hydrogen bomb, he said, was "like someone set off a cannon alongside your ear."

Earl Michael “Mike” Schaeffer Jr., a survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a pilot in the first wave of planes in the Battle of Midway during World War II, died Saturday at age 95.

During a ceremony Thursday morning, World War II veteran Joe Salazar received replacements for five missing medals — and a Bronze Star that he not received previously and did not expect.

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The first concert of an initiative by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Joe Walsh to raise money for veterans featured uniformed servicemembers, a few dozen Gold Star families, countless guitar riffs and an appearance from a U.S. senator.

On Jan. 17, 1977, a boat carrying servicemen to the USS Guam and USS Trenton collided with a 380-ton Spanish freighter and capsized, pitching almost 130 men into the sea. Survivors of the incident gathered in Virginia to hold a memorial.

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The Flag City Honor Flight group visiting Washington, D.C. from Ohio on Wednesday included 102-year-old Betty Casselman, a Marine who taught pilots the difference between friend and foe during the war.

An ash-scattering ceremony was held Tuesday in honor of Melvin Stone, who served as a chief machinist’s mate on the destroyer tender USS Dobbin. Stone was one of only two sailors on deck when the attack began.

A member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen is joining other military veterans in supporting a fall ballot measure in Ohio that would bar state agencies from buying drugs at prices higher than those paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Wilbert “Vince” Rolves says “being a POW is pretty rough. I fought hard for my country like I was supposed to, but I got caught.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs fired its D.C. medical director again, this time using new laws championed by President Donald Trump that ease restrictions on employee discipline.

In a country where companies sometimes pay lip service to military service, Cargill, based outside the Twin Cities, has set a national example for recruiting employees with military experience and supporting them.

Gov. Jim Justice pushed the idea last session, and it had widespread support. But it was packaged in a series of tax and revenue bills that didn’t have similar support and died with those bills.

Prosecutors say Donah Davison admitted that when her mother died in 1997, she failed to inform the VA and continued to collect and deposit the checks into her own bank account.

A U.S. Army soldier from Wisconsin missing from World War II will be buried in his hometown this weekend.

An Army veteran who fended off a mentally ill man who tried to attack a chess class the veteran was teaching at an Illinois public library is one of 18 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism.

The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center and the Augusta Vet Center are offering support services to veterans who may be emotionally impacted by the Ken Burns 10-part series, “The Vietnam War.”

Air Force veteran Billy Marshall received a Purple Heart and a Meritorious Service Award, but he lost part of his left arm and leg. But, he has Lucy.

Ben Reifel, a World War II veteran and the first Native American to represent South Dakota in Congress, is being honored with a special day.

Two pieces of legislation that will help rural Texas veterans and others are making their way through the U.S. House and Senate.

He'd worked on the blanket for months. Rod Hardin's knitting needles clicked as he lounged beside the pool on vacation in Atlantic City, and little kids paused to marvel at the Santa Claus look-alike in a Hawaiian shirt, draped in threads of yarn. When autumn came, he continued his creation from a hospital bed set up on the first floor of his Germantown, Maryland, home.

Longtime musician Joe Walsh, a Grammy award-winner and inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is best known as a guitarist for the Eagles. A lesser-known fact: he’s also a Gold Star son.

The regional director for veterans hospitals across New England faced criticism Monday as a congressional subcommittee began examining problems at the Manchester VA Medical Center.

The Vietnamese guide drove the sedan through the countryside, carrying the two Americans toward the village of Ban Don and taking former Army Capt. Michael Close nearer to the spot where he spent three of the most harrowing nights of his life.

"Before there was 9/11, there was 10/12." Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bob Overturf said those words are a reference to the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole by al-Qaida suicide bombers off the coast of Yemen. Overturf was part of the Cole's crew.

The remains of Maine man who served in World War II are back in Maine for burial.

Alumni of the shuttered Wentworth Military Academy and College are fighting to salvage one especially precious piece of their history — a 5 1/2-foot-tall copper-plated statue of a World War I doughboy.

Not every aspect of each soldier's experience can be reflected in even the most well-intentioned documentaries or retrospective journalism.

After serving most of his four years in Iraq, Christopher Reichard left the Marine Corps with few options and no clear idea of where he wanted to go from there.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, who is 94, was honored for his long political career and his Army service in World War II, when he was severely injured during combat in Italy. He served 27 years in the Senate and 10 years in the House.

WWII veterans gathered on the deck of the USS Little Rock on Friday to remember the kamikaze attack that killed 60 sailors aboard the USS Emmons.

Suicide among military veterans is especially high in the western U.S. and rural areas, according to new government data that show wide state-by-state disparities and suggest social isolation, gun ownership and access to health care may be factors.

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After Navy service in the Pacific during World War II, Harry Dean Stanton spent three years at the University of Kentucky. He appeared in more than 200 movies and TV shows in a career dating to the mid-1950s. He died Friday of natural causes at age 91.

Dole, 81, who served in the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, founded the Hidden Heroes Campaign chaired by actor Tom Hanks. The campaign, which Dole's foundation supports, identifies caregivers and steers them to support programs such those provided by the VA.

Easing challenges created for veterans who receive “bad paper” discharges will require changes in practices and procedures at the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, some experts said Friday. But first, it will take public outrage.

Eric Smith was awarded the Navy Cross for his courageous actions on April 6, 2004, while in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Smith was initially awarded the Silver Star, but the Marine Corps upgraded it.

Seventy years ago Monday, the U.S. Air Force was born, and some men still living in Middle Georgia were there to see it happen. They say it wasn’t all that exciting.

One of the secrets James Belcher Sr. revealed to his wife 14 years into the marriage was that he was a survivor of the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine near the end of World War II on July 30, 1945.

The "bunker" in Tijuana is a meeting venue, crash pad, information hub and hangout for a distinct group: U.S. military veterans expelled from the very country they served.

Timothy Kangas, the agency's chief operating officer since April 2016, was let go after he failed to aggressively pursue revenue-generating proposals that might free the campuses from chronic insolvency, said David Tillotson III, a senior Pentagon official who oversees the agency.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will open a third call center in the fall to handle an anticipated increase in calls to the veterans crisis hotline. The announcement comes just nine months after a second call center was opened in Atlanta.

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“The Vietnam War” turned into an 18-hour, 10-part project that took a decade to complete. It involved poring through 100,000 photographs, spending thousands of hours with archival footage and recordings, talking to 1,000 witnesses and ultimately, telling stories from 79 perspectives.

A Michigan airman whose plane crashed during World War II has been identified among the remains recently discovered on a Pacific Ocean island, the U.S. government said Thursday.

Federal health care reform proposed by Republicans in Congress in recent months would increase the number of old, sick and low-income veterans without insurance and put pressure on an overburdened Veterans Affairs system, a Rand Corp. study released Thursday found.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday he will retaliate against a U.S. halt on the issuing of most visas to senior foreign ministry officials and their families by suspending missions by U.S. military-led teams searching for the remains of Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War.

An Army veteran who lost all four limbs in an explosion in Afghanistan says the name of his newborn son pays tribute to two medics who helped save his life.

It’s estimated that the repair process for the outpatient clinic building will take 120 to 135 days. The building suffered water damage due to water coming in through the air handling system.

Leroy Petry and Thomas Norris discussed their military careers, doled out life lessons and relayed to the kids that they can be heroes, too, even if they don’t serve. Other Medal of Honor recipients, in Pueblo for the convention, visited other schools.

A roughly 2-acre property is exactly the type of visible spot organizers had in mind to honor servicemembers, said Robert Turlip, chairman of the Archbald Borough Veterans Monument Park Committee.

An acquaintance gave Ray Stewart lithograph copies of a painting depicting a scene from June 6, 1944 on Utah Beach in Normandy. He wants other WWII veterans to sign them.

Veterans will begin coming for more than 500 possible appointments next week — after almost two years of construction.

A museum and memorial under construction in downtown Columbus, Ohio, could become known officially as the national site for Americans to reflect on the experiences of veterans.

A House subcommittee criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday for inaccurate and unreliable reporting of how much it spends on mail, which lawmakers contended is a sign of larger management issues at the agency.

Brian Newberry, the former commander at Fairchild Air Force Base, was selected as Spokane, Washington's newest school board member. He was commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing until 2014. He'll be sworn in on Sept. 27.

Highland officials and members of the American Legion Post 439 and Veterans of Foreign War Post 5694 gathered at Dennis H. Rinderer Park for the ceremonial start to construction of the Wall of Remembrance and Honor.

The program provides inpatient and outpatient specialty care, primary care and mental health care for veterans when the local U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care facility cannot provide services due to a lack of available specialists, long wait times or an extraordinary distance to a health care facility.

Capt. Maggie Seymour took off from San Diego on July 22 on a fundraising run across America, a journey she has dubbed “One Marine. Coast to Coast. 100 Days.”

Former Army Ranger Matt Meloni wouldn't let a burst appendix, cancer treatment and wading through waste-high floodwaters and raw sewage keep him from reaching a Houston hospital.

A measure to increase funding for veteran treatment courts by $3 million was added to a House spending bill Tuesday, signaling early support in Congress for diversion, rather than incarceration, for veterans struggling with mental health and substance abuse disorders.

For almost 40 years, Jon Malay tucked away the memories, thinking that one day—after careers in which he studied weather for the Navy or sold satellites that recorded the swirling winds of hurricanes—he would write about being on the ship that became the last American military presence of the Vietnam War.

Donald Patterson said he could not think of a better way to spend his 90th birthday than at Alpha AirFest on Saturday at the Joplin Regional Airport, surrounded by family, friends, pilots and historic and acrobatic aircraft.

For the nearly 3.4 million military men and women on active duty, the summer of 1967 was and could be only one thing: the height of the Vietnam War. But for five young men from the Alle-Kiski Valley, that summer was the start of a lifelong, unbreakable bond of friendship.

San Diego police are asking for the public's help in finding a 37-year-old retired Army captain missing for a week.

Hundreds of small U.S. flags lined each side of the drive leading to the back of East Akron Cemetery Saturday where Ralph Boetcher was laid to rest — again.

The Army veteran is nervous but hopes the amputation will pave the way for him to join the few in the U.S. to be outfitted with a recently approved, state-of-the-art bionic hand and wrist called the LUKE, developed under the U.S. Department of Defense for injured servicemembers.

Towns large and small across America offered up a formal commemoration for all the country's "Rosie the Riveters," the women who rolled up their collective sleeves during WWII and got to work.

A U.S. Army division that included songwriter Irving Berlin among its ranks started mustering on Long Island a century ago this weekend during World War I.

The beautiful weather created a peaceful, solemn scene at Blandford Cemetery, Va., on Friday morning, as the family of Navy Ensign William Manley Thompson finally got to lay their relative to rest after 76 years.

A cybersecurity education program in Colorado Springs is training active-duty servicemembers who are leaving the service for careers in the cybersecurity industry under a new partnership with Fort Carson.

Pfc. Waddie Fuda was a rifleman in the U.S. Army during World War II and was seriously injured in 1944. Although he never spoke of the injury, his children learned after his wife’s death that he should have been awarded a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and several other military honors that will be presented posthumously during a ceremony.

A Vietnam veteran went to great lengths – a 1,600-mile round trip, to be exact – in making sure a Purple Heart medal from World War II got reunited with the family of its recipient.

Lead researcher Sue Sisley has screened thousands of veterans, yet enrolled only 26 who meet the eligibility criteria – prompting concern the study’s parameters must change. If that happens, the study could be delayed, she said.

The suit alleges that attorney Candy Kern-Fuller and Arkansas businessmen Andrew Gamber and Mark Corbett and their related companies illegally induced veterans to sell their retirement benefits or disability benefits for a period of months or years in exchange for lump-sum payments.

An employee at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System has been charged with three counts of indecent exposure after he was accused of repeatedly exposing himself to two co-workers.

The Pentagon announced today that retired Maj. Gen. Kelly McKeague is the new director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The agency that searches for, recovers and identifies missing American war dead has not had a permanent director since 2016.

The Social Security Administration has paid out nearly $38 million in benefits to hundreds of dead veterans, according to a government watchdog report that partially blamed the Department of Veterans Affairs for inaccurate death records.

After three combat deployments to the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, something as simple as the smell of hay could trigger Rick Burth’s post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

“I joined the Army on June 12, 1940, to keep from being drafted,” the 97-year-old man said. “They were debating the draft law, but I knew I didn’t want no part of that or the infantry. My daddy knew the same, so he told me if I wanted to join, he’d sign the papers.”

Living on a farm in Wetumpka, Ala., Ben and Hattie Davis raised 16 children. Of their 13 sons, 11 joined the United States military, racking up 158 years of service.

Former heavyweight boxing champion and Army veteran Ray Mercer visited the Augusta VA medical centers in Georgia on Friday.

While Reboot Combat Recovery focused on combat veterans, the free course is also open to first responders, who often come into contact with tragic circumstances as a regular course of action in their profession.

A Michigan man whose house is next to the site of a fatal motorcycle crash has honored the Army veteran killed in that crash by giving an American flag to the victim's family.

Maj. Keith Altenhofen was the “real deal”, an elite rescue helicopter pilot who flew in sandstorms and combat situations that might unnerve other pilots.

Veterans no longer must take a written test to obtain a Commercial Driver's License as long if they operated a large truck in the military in 2016.

Several dozen friends of WWII veteran Sydney Cole gathered Friday to celebrate his 103rd birthday at Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he lives in the community living care unit. Members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart presented Cole with a cake that honored the Purple Hearts he earned when he was shot down behind enemy lines in Belgium.