February 10, 2019 Minnesota approaches goal of eradicating veteran homelessness through outreach programs Minnesota is inching closer to its goal of ending veteran homelessness through a combination of impressive state and federal agency cooperation.
February 5, 2019 Four former VA Secretaries: There's an historic and welcome transformation underway at the VA As veterans, we served in Vietnam and in the post-Vietnam era military and understand all too well the problems that have beset the Department of Veterans Affairs in the past and the challenges now facing the VA as it cares for veterans from World War ll and Korea through Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
February 4, 2019 Indiana veteran adopts dog that served alongside him in Afghanistan A U.S. Army veteran who made a furry friend while serving in Afghanistan finally adopted the bomb-sniffing dog -- in a painstaking process that took years.
January 31, 2019 Man who repeatedly scammed veterans out of retirement, disability pay fined $1: report A man accused of swindling veterans of their retirement and disability benefits for more than 7 years has been ordered to stop engaging in illegal pension poaching and told to pay $1 as part of a settlement.
January 30, 2019 Austin cops donate heating unit to vet in need, 92 Louis Hicks is a 92-year-old vet, who lives in an East Austin, Texas house that’s been his home for 83 years, and thanks to Austin police, he no longer has endure winter in the cold.
January 29, 2019 Strangers who attended Air Force veteran’s funeral ‘came together as Americans,’ says organizer The thousands of strangers who responded to an online viral appeal to attend the Texas funeral of a Vietnam War-era Air Force veteran “came together as Americans,” says a biker who helped spread the word about the event.
January 28, 2019 Thousands answer call to attend 'unaccompanied' Air Force vet's Texas funeral Thousands of strangers responded to an urgent appeal to attend Monday's funeral for an Air Force veteran from Texas.
January 25, 2019 Flipped-over American flag set right after sharp-eyed Missouri cop, an Air Force vet, gets firefighters' help A Missouri police officer and Air Force veteran enlisted the help of the local fire department to fix an American flag that was accidentally hanging upside-down in Missouri on Saturday outside a local business.
January 24, 2019 Army vet's Trump T-shirt made fellow gym patrons feel 'uncomfortable,' report says The owner of a gym in Missouri asked an Army veteran to not wear a Trump T-shirt during his next visit, saying the shirt was making other gym patrons feel "uncomfortable," according to reports.
January 19, 2019 Funeral for Vietnam War vet, 77, who died alone, draws hundreds of mourners A U.S. Army veteran who served in Vietnam -- who recently died alone in his New Jersey home but had no known relatives -- was honored Friday by more than 1,000 strangers in a funeral service steeped in military tradition.