Vet Offers Big Reward to Find Men Who Killed His Therapy Animals
For United States military veteran Josh Curtis, enough is enough. For the fourth time this year, the Lake County, Florida resident awoke to the sound of gunshots after unknown assailants […]
Combat Marine Killed on California Highway Saving Woman’s Life
It was the morning of December 19, he was driving with his wife to Los Angeles International Airport in California to visit family in Texas for the holidays when a car […]
Old Soldier Turns Viral Vets Day Nightmare Into Booming Charity
On Veterans Day, former United States Army soldier Ernest Walker had the unfortunate experience of being denied a discount because the manager of a Dallas-area eatery didn’t believe he was […]
Army Vet Finally Receives Medal of Honor for Heroism in 1876
When former Union Army Private Robert Smith died in 1930 in Elko, Utah, he did so not knowing that the President of the United States of America (at the time, […]
U.S. Army Officer Pranks Fighting Irish Brother at His Own Basketball Game
Out of nowhere, the video message from Notre Dame basketball guard Matt Farrell’s brother blared from the Jumbotron at the Fighting Irish’s game against Colgate University. Bo Farrell, a United States […]
Watch the Navy Band Surprise One of Its Biggest Fans (Frank Zappa)
Frank Vincent Zappa was born on December 21, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland — a little over 30 miles from Annapolis, Maryland, the home of the United States Naval Academy, and […]
Navy SEALs Come to Aid of Two Former Russian Spies
Two former Russian spies, who defected to the United States after handing over troves of intelligence to both the CIA and FBI, were jobless and foundering in the Pacific Northwest […]
VFW Searching for Vet’s Family After Ashes Were Left on Their Doorstep
“This man was a WW 2 veteran that served honorably. Please see that he gets a proper burial. Thank you! God Bless You!” It rested on the doorstep of a Veterans […]
Vet Buys Gifts for Family of Burglar Who Shot, Paralyzed Him
There’s forgiveness, and then there’s what United States military veteran Chris Sanna did this month. “We’re supposed to get together, I got them gift cards and stuff for Christmas, we’re […]
Ohio Boy Writes Santa Wishing Airman Dad Home; Wish Is Granted
James Croot is seven years old. He goes to an elementary school in Blanchester, Ohio. Just the other day, he had a homework assignment: write a letter to Santa listing what […]
Watch Coast Guard Crew Rescue Fishermen After Their Boat Sank
When what seemed like an innocent Sunday outing, a fun fishing trip, turned disastrous and deadly near Jacksonville, Florida and the St. John’s inlet, the United States Coast Guard and […]
From Fort Jackson to France: A World War II Soldier’s Sketchbook
The architect who designed the building you see below, the United States Tax Court Building in Washington, D.C., was a soldier once — in World War II — and young. […]
The Rock Reunites Army Vet With Deployed Air Force Hubby
“I think that if we ever have the opportunity to give back to our troops I think we all should because we live and enjoy the life we have because […]
Vets Who Successfully Protested Dakota Pipeline Headed to Flint
If anything, the tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets they had to endure in sub-freezing temperatures not far from the Canadian border strengthened their will. They didn’t diminish or […]
Vets Reunite to Watch TV Show That Helped Them Through War (‘Gilmore Girls’)
They traveled. They got together. They watched. They loved. And, deftly the United States Marine combat veterans busted the chops of a big network broadcast journalist who had joined their […]
This Marine Vet Policeman Lost His Job Because He Didn’t Shoot
For United States Marine Corps veteran Stephen Mader, 25, the difference between the training one receives as a combat-ready leatherneck, versus the one receives as a police officer in rural […]
General Kelly’s Story About Two Marines Staring Down a Truck Bomb
Two United States Marines, Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter and Corporal Jonathan Yale, were assigned to stand watch over a compound in Ramadi, Iraq back in 2008, at 7:30 in the […]
Vet Returns to Find Home Decorated, All Lit Up for the Holidays
The intent? Surprise. That’s what a local Christmas decorating business was going for when it selected Josh Tisoskey’s house in Hopkinton, Rhode Island to dress up in lights and ornaments for […]
A Hawaii Radio Star Vet & His ‘Top Secret Pearl Harbor Mission’
The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 may go down as a “surprise attack” by the Imperial Japanese navy — without a doubt it’s clearly one of the biggest, […]
A Photo of the Chaplain’s Clock That Stopped the Second the Arizona Exploded
The time, 8:06 a.m. — December 7, 1941 — is forever fixed on this clock, just like it is on our collective psyche. As Americans, we’ll never forget the events […]