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Nieces of Marine Jack Cremean held each other and cried as a plane containing the remains of their uncle approached Wednesday at Fresno Yosemite International Airport, 77 years after he was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

World War II veteran Francis Byrne will get his Purple Heart more than seven decades after he was injured by a land mine in Belgium.

An atmosphere of vanishing time permeated the Friday morning ceremony at Pearl Harbor commemorating the 77th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Oahu by Japan.

The origins of Tyler Merritt's bestselling product this Christmas season date to the fall, when Nike launched an ad campaign featuring National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Don Long was alone on an anchored military seaplane in the middle of a bay across the island from Pearl Harbor when Japanese warplanes started striking Hawaii on December 7, 1941, watching from afar as the bombs and bullets killed and wounded thousands.

Officials say the remains of an Army infantryman who went missing during World War II have been identified and they are being returned home to Tennessee.

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The leader of Indiana's veterans' affairs agency has resigned following reports that he awarded department employees who are veterans grant money intended for struggling veterans.

For the first time in many years, not a single USS Arizona survivor will be present Friday for the 77th commemoration of the Pearl Harbor attacks at the Arizona Memorial visitor center. Just five crewmembers are still alive — all of whom are in their late 90s.

A Department of Veterans Affairs doctor who claimed his supervisors forced him to retire after he warned of anesthesiologists making near-fatal mistakes during surgeries was temporarily reinstated to his job, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel announced Tuesday.

“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.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs' failure to distribute monthly housing stipends to GI Bill recipients resulted in thousands of veterans not receiving their housing stipends or facing delays — and many could experience long-term financial repercussions from the situation.

When Jason Criss Howk's Army career came to an end in 2015, he thought he’d spend his days teaching and fishing. While Howk does teach, he’s found a new mission, too: Explaining the Middle East, Islam and Muslim culture to a population that has little experience, but strong opinions on those topics.

Police issued arrest warrants for a couple suspected of stealing a 75-year-old man's scooter and phone when he accidentally left them in a Walmart parking lot.

Apple has launched the Veterans and Military Purchase Program, which provides 10 percent discounts for servicemembers and veterans on most of the products it sells online.

Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved large numbers of D.C.-area hotel rooms as part of an unorthodox campaign that offered U.S. military veterans a free trip to Washington — then sent them to Capitol Hill to lobby against a law the Saudis opposed, according to veterans and organizers.

More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7, 1941, are finally being laid to rest in cemeteries across the United States.

A new survey of 33,000 wounded warriors has alerted advocates and government officials to ongoing problems with veterans’ mental health and obesity.

Army Air Forces Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson, a World War II Tuskegee Airman who went missing in action over Italy in 1944, has been found, the Pentagon agency charged with recovering and identifying the country’s war dead announced Thursday.

The incorrect payments that could be made during the next year are a result of setbacks in implementing a new “Forever” GI Bill — a major expansion of veterans’ education benefits that Congress passed last year.

George H.W. Bush's got Sully, his service dog, through America's VetDogs over the summer — about two months after the death of former first lady Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years.

Albert Madden played taps countless times at military funerals. Friday afternoon, the solemn melody was played for him during a service at Massachusetts National Cemetery.

A study led by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs found that consuming alcoholic beverages daily — even at low levels that meet U.S. guidelines for safe drinking — appears to be “detrimental” to health.

Track Palin initially was scheduled to enter the halfway house Oct. 31 after new assault allegations disqualified him from a veterans therapeutic court program. But he won a delay after his lawyer said a bed at a treatment hospital for veterans became available.

Newly released emails about the three Trump associates who secretly steered the Department of Veterans Affairs show how deeply the trio was involved in some of the agency’s most consequential matters.

Vietnam veteran Louis Langston has been preparing to open a store that will send a portion of the proceeds to help veterans groups such as the Wounded Warrior Project.

Flags in Iowa are flying at half-staff to honor a World War II sailor from Iowa killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Daily Show also delved into the controversies that arose this week about whether GI Bill recipients who were underpaid this semester would receive retroactive payments.

A veterans group is turning to the courts for help in its efforts to make airplane bathrooms more accessible for travelers with disabilities.

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

Upon returning to Winnebago County, Army vet Aaron Hayford suffered from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and failed to seek help. “I covered up all my anger and sorrow with alcohol,” he said.

Albert Cheung Wong had been working up to the bloodshed for at least several weeks, investigators found, purchasing one firearm after another, readying ammunition and laying groundwork for a siege March 9 at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville.

Marines were dancing boisterously in their dress blue uniforms to Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" at the Marine Corps Birthday Ball a few weeks ago in Virginia Beach. But most of the attention went to Joe Vass, just shy of his 91st birthday in the center of the dance circle with plenty of energy to spare.

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.

In 1987, two Air Force flyers felt like sitting ducks in their crippled Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft over the Baltic Sea. This week, one of the pilots finally got a chance to meet and thank the Swedes who saved them.

When Democrats take control of the House in January, a top priority will be to ensure the White House correctly implements a new law extending benefits to more veteran caregivers, said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The trainees lined up in two rows and smiled, and the image was captured. Most of those 20 cadets of the Army Air Forces went their separate ways that day. Some fought and died in the war. Others stayed stateside in reserve. The year was 1944.

The remains of a New York soldier killed during the Korean War 68 years ago have been returned for burial in his upstate New York hometown.

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As many as 90,000 ailing “Blue Water Navy” veterans are likely to have to wait for a new Congress to see legislation passed that would make them eligible for Agent Orange-related disability compensation and VA-paid health care.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has no plans to retroactively pay student veterans who might get lower monthly housing stipends than they are legally entitled to receive during the next year.

Gus Klein says he found his torn and burned "Trump 2020" flag in front of his house over the weekend. Now, he's receiving a new flag courtesy of the president's son, Eric.

The USS Hudner is the newest ship in the U.S. Navy. It was named for Fall River, Mass. native Thomas Hudner, a Navy pilot, who earned the Medal of Honor for service in Korea.

A vocational rehabilitation counselor at the VA Regional Office in Waco, Texas, is Craig Colton's friendly, gregarious nature quickly puts the people he meets at ease, the kind of guy most people would want to have a beer with. That's what makes Colton good at his job and why he so easily earns the trust of those he is trying to help.

The Omaha funeral of a Vietnam veteran initially believed to have no known living family members could have been a sparsely-attended affair.

The National Academies of Sciences called on federal agencies Wednesday to launch a new, coordinated effort to monitor and research the health of Gulf War and post-9/11 veterans affected by toxic exposures, as well as track the health of their living and future children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

At a congressional hearing earlier this month, lawmakers pleaded with VA officials to give them a date when a severe technology problem that caused payment delays and incorrect payments to thousands of student veterans would be fixed. On Wednesday, they gave one: Dec. 1, 2019.

After touring the site where lax oversight of a construction project resulted with the costly collapse of a hillside and parking lot, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie commended those “admitted mistakes,” cooperated with other agencies, and “fixed” the problem.

A top government watchdog has agreed to investigate the amount of influence three wealthy members of President Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla., exerted over the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Tears welled among family members and friends at the VFW Post in Indian Trail, N.C. on Wednesday, as six North Carolina veterans of World War II received France’s highest honor for risking their lives on French soil.

On the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's only hotshot crew focused on recruiting veterans, members have traded assault rifles and other weapons of war for chain saws and shovels. But, like in the military, they have camaraderie, structure and chain of command. And the occasional adrenaline rush.

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John Collins, a retired Army colonel and veteran of three wars who founded and led a rollicking national security discussion group that helped inform some of the Pentagon's most influential thinkers, died Nov. 22 at his home in Alexandria, Virginia. He was 97.

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.

Navy veteran Chris Reder doesn't give up easily, especially when it comes to finding ways to help his comrades. Now Reder, founder of the the DTOM 22/0 Foundation, hopes to build a "veterans ranch" to offer a comprehensive treatment facility for post-traumatic stress disorder that would house up to 30 veterans.

Dog Tag Buddies, based in Montana, matches vets with PTSD, traumatic brain injury or military sexual trauma with dogs they’ll train to be their own service dogs.

National and Wisconsin flags will be flown at half-staff Sunday in commemoration of an Army Air Forces engineer who died in the line of duty during World War II, according to an executive order signed by Gov. Scott Walker.

A viral GoFundMe campaign aimed to help Willie Davis, a 66-year-old Navy veteran, pay for his funeral.

Kenneth Sanborn, a Michigan lawyer who represented an Air Force reservist during the Red Scare era of the 1950s, has died. He was 92.

On Sunday, Nov. 11, the exact day of the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the "war to end all wars," the family of U.S. Army Pvt. John Pavlo ended their wait to receive his Purple Heart.

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.

Dr. Olivia Hooker was among the first black women to serve in the Coast Guard and retired as an associate professor of psychology at Fordham University in New York. But at the time of her death on Nov. 21 at 103, she had also become one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, often regarded as the deadliest episode of racial violence in American history.

The finding, announced Thursday, bolsters the case for veterans with hypertension to be granted easier access to Department of Veterans Affairs benefits. Previously, researchers had determined there was only “limited” or “suggestive” evidence hypertension could be caused by the chemicals.

Puppies crawled over legs and laps, under chairs and knees, stretching to lick the faces of some of the cast and crew of the new NBC show “The Village” as they sat on the floor.

Actor James Woods, who frequently uses his Twitter page to share his conservative political views, recently used his account to help link people together with family members following the California wildfires.

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At a hearing this month on GI Bill claim delays, lawmakers criticized VA leaders and legacy computer systems that seem to defy modernization despite Congress year after year allocating hundreds of millions of dollars for VA information technology upgrades.

Military veterans lobbying for an end to federal classification of marijuana as a lethal substance with no redeeming medicinal value may be closer to that goal than ever before, given the midterm election results.

Officials estimated that if the errors continue at the same rate over the next five years, the Department of Veterans Affairs will fail to pay $7.5 million in benefits to ALS patients and award an additional $6.5 million in erroneous payments.

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."

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.

Friends and acquaintances have identified one of two people killed Saturday in a plane crash in Fredericksburg as Cowden Ward, Jr., a pilot who worked in an organization that gives complimentary flights to veterans.

VetTech is an internship program started in 2016 at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., to entice veterans with technical experience as a way of offsetting a generation of electrical and mechanical technicians now beginning to retire.

The two U.S. Senators from Massachusetts are seeking answers surrounding a "disturbing report" of sleeping nurses and patient neglect at a government-run nursing home serving military veterans in Brockton.

Army Pfc. Leo J. Duquette, 19, of East Toledo was listed as missing in action early in the Korean War and then declared deceased months after the armistice.

For Jacksonville homeless veterans, Five Star Veterans Center provides an in-between place for them while they get back on their feet both physically and mentally. To help with the general costs of running the center, Amazon last week donated $10,000 to the organization.

Once a year for the past seven years, Chester Woods park is closed down for veterans and their dependents to hunt whitetail deer.

The fifth annual Edwardsville Warrior Tree Lighting combined bright holiday cheer with a somber message: The men and women who serve in the U.S. military are at risk not only at war, but also after they return home.

Fifty years after retired Marine 1st Sgt. John Lord led his unit through an ambush during the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Navy Cross for his efforts.

For years and years and years, Kim Leiter of Grand Rapids, Mich., wondered about Capt. Robert Holton — the name on a POW-MIA bracelet she got in North Carolina in 1972 while the Vietnam War raged on.

The next version of the farm bill could expand cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which might have an adverse affect on military veterans.

resident Donald Trump expressed regret in an interview to be aired this weekend for not marking Veterans Day with a visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

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Oomar Olivas, a sergeant in the Colorado Army National Guard , accidentally left his garage door open Sunday night after celebrating Veterans Day with family and friends. When he awoke the next morning a "go-bag" containing his military uniform, some warm clothes and a journal detailing his experiences while deployed in Afghanistan was gone.

Kimo Williams photographed the Vietnamese people he met on a daily basis and the war itself as he experienced it.

Travis Denny, who joined the Marine Corps 10 years ago under the shadow of his Marine hero grandfather Bill Pasewark, is a helicopter pilot stationed at Corpus Christi.

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Jack Schwartz of Hanford was still working at age 102. The community-minded veteran's last civic service was serving on his city's parks and recreation commission into last year. He was living independently until he was admitted to the hospital two days before he died.

Joseph Small, a U.S. Army veteran injured in Afghanistan in 2009, received the keys to a new home Friday. Wade Jurney Homes donated the home as part of the Operation Homefront Homes on the Homefront Program.