For decades, the grave of Joseph H. White sat neglected and unmarked in an abandoned Seward cemetery overgrown with trees. But this summer, the burial site of the Civil War veteran who ended up in ...
WASHINGTON — A Gulf War veteran is formally requesting the Department of Veterans Affairs add Gulf War illness to the list of service-connected medical conditions that qualify veterans for monthly, ...
Gulf War illness (GWI), the chronic, debilitating condition linked to military service in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, will receive a dedicated diagnostic code in the October 2025 release of the ...
Paul H. Cunningham is spry for his 95 years, easily moving around, greeting people in his East Hempfield Township home at Woodcrest Villa, hopping up from chairs to answer the phone and walking ...
Ohio is home to thousands of Revolutionary War veterans. A new effort aims to preserve their gravesites. Despite the fact Ohio did not exist as a state during the Revolutionary War, it’s become the ...
Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. will receive a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence over 130 years after his burial. A ceremony with a military salute and remarks from John Leach ...
The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings … with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a ...
U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), walk as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen on the back ground in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan ...
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Two Civil War veterans who lived in northern Michigan were honored Tuesday afternoon more than 100 years after their deaths. Private John Fish and Private ...
This story has been corrected. LONDON — Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service thanks to the longtime efforts of a ...
Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...
For a generation that lived the war in Afghanistan one grid square at a time, the war now feels like a series of dots on a map. A patrol base carved out of hardpan soil. A culvert on a highway that ...