Marine Crew Chief Who Died in Australia Osprey Crash Remembered at Hometown Vigil By the time the sun completely set, the street was lit by roughly 200 people carrying flickering lights, waiting for the...
Marine Scout Snipers Look to Immortalize Their Legacy and History Through a New Memorial In the summer of 2021, two years before the Corps axed the current iteration of the job, members of the Marine scout sniper...
Vigil at 'Iron Mike': Paratroopers Pay Tribute to Fallen Comrades at Iconic Normandy Memorial John Brown was 20 years old when he joined the Army Air Forces in 1947. World War II was over, but he still wanted to serve...
The Wild and Controversial Life of the American Sculptor Behind Mount Rushmore In late 1924, a rare opportunity presented itself to Gutzon Borglum.
'The Angel of Gettysburg' Buried Union Soldiers While 6 Months' Pregnant The stench of decomposing bodies was overpowering, the terrible smell made all the more repugnant by the stifling July heat...
Buffalo Soldiers Receive New VA Headstones Following Army Decision to Overturn Convictions More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers...
VA Plan to Issue Urns, Memorial Plaques Sparks Concerns Veterans Will Be Barred from Burial with Spouses The National Funeral Directors Association and the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as others, recently...
Survey at Florida Air Force Base Discovers 121 Potential Graves Related to Segregation-Era Black Cemetery MacDill Air Force Base confirmed in a statement late last week that it had located the unmarked Port Tampa Cemetery, which...
Georgia Memorial Honors Family Members of Fallen Troops The statue faces an obelisk dedicated to the White County service members -- about 30 of them -- who have died in service to...
Judge Halts Dismantling of Confederate Memorial at Arlington Just as Removal Work Begins Judge Rossie Alston issued the temporary restraining order blocking "any acts to deconstruct, tear down, remove, or alter the...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...