Sophia Jacob

After battling the terrorist threat overseas, Army veteran Mel Williams returned home to find his fellow soldiers fighting their own war. She found that nearly 20 vets a day across the country kill themselves.…

TEXARKANA, Texas - Since its inception in 1988, the annual POW-MIA vigil has drawn at least 50 local veterans to its downtown Korea-Vietnam Memorial site, but this year the event offered an extra layer of sense. Greg Beck, president of…

Third Annual Montezuma Stand Down for Veterans…

John Haynes, a farm boy from Madison, first tried to join the Marines at the age of 13 during the height of World War II.He was turned down, but two years later Haynes, 15, walked into a recruiting office in Jacksonville and rigged his date…

New book reports that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unduly restricted the President of the United States' ability to use military force and pledged to warn China, an American adversary , of any impending US…

SILVER LAKE - Leaders hope to erect a war veterans monument outside the village hall along Kent Road within a year.Mayor Bernie Hovey has said he and others involved in the effort would like to hold a dedication ceremony for the memorial on…

TAUNTON - There are 6,024 foreign war veterans posts in the country. Only 228 of them have reached their 100th birthday, according to Randi Law, communications manager at VFW's national headquarters.On Saturday, Taunton's VFW Post 611…

US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, viewed from a Mainichi Shimbun aircraft on January 27, 2018 (Mainichi / Takeshi Noda) Japan will collect all untreated contaminated water produced at a U.S.!-->…

Imagine being the bureaucrats who run the federal agency tasked with making sure the nation is doing the right thing by those who were ready to fight for this country, and who need…

For the first time in two years, the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will be back on Saturday September 18 in person for the annual NAMIWalk at Veterans Memorial Park in Bettendorf. Pre-walk…