Retired Bishop Francis X. Roque, former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for Military Services who also served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Vietnam, Korea and Europe, died Thursday at age 90.
During a news conference in 2014, Lauren Bruner announced he decided to have the urn that would hold his cremated ashes interred aboard the USS Arizona.
Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole was one of 80 members of the first U.S. strike against Japanese mainland targets in World War II, credited for bringing optimism of winning the war to the American people.
Nathan Kline, who survived scores of missions in a bomber during World War II, took part in some of that conflict’s biggest battles and came home to build a distinguished and happy civilian life, died Monday at age 95.
The veteran community in Elgin, Texas, last week mourned the death of former Army nurse Pauline Marzec-Bostic, who at 99 years old was among the oldest living Army nurses in the nation.
Eman was born in the Netherlands and was part of an underground resistance following Nazi Germany's 1940 invasion of the northern European nation. She died Tuesday in Grand Rapids at age 99.
Jim Leavelle, a Pearl Harbor veteran and longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history's most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F. Kennedy's assassin as he was fatally shot, has died. He was 99.
Retired Col. Mark A. Smith, who wrote dozens of letters praised for their compassion and eloquence to the families of his Marine Reserve battalion during a deployment early in the Iraq War, was remembered this week as a “Marine’s Marine.”
Youa True Joseph Vang, one of the last surviving Hmong heroes from the Vietnam War era and a prominent St. Paul leader, pastor and businessman, died Wednesday. He was 83.
Retired Firefighter Richard Driscoll, who died in New York Wednesday, became the 200th Fire Department member to die from inhaling the toxins swirling around the Twin Towers nearly 18 years ago, the FDNY said.
Retired Army Special Forces Chief Warrant Officer 4 Christian McCoy who was killed in Afghanistan in June was remembered Tuesday during a funeral service that drew family, friends and former military comrades.
A man who died in a house fire with his wife on Saturday was a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran of the Vietnam War who attended a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House in 2017.
