November 12, 2018 National Medal of Honor Museum, CEO: Let's honor the extraordinary courage, commitment of our bravest We need to preserve the stories of our nation’s Medal of Honor recipients and harness their power to inspire tens of millions of Americans in current and future generations to carry out the medal’s core values in our everyday lives.
November 11, 2018 Veterans Day: By the time I saw my VA doctor, he said it was too late Unfortunately, I am not the only veteran who has been denied the care they earned.
November 11, 2018 Dr. Marc Siegel: Why is the FDA approving a powerful new synthetic opioid in the midst of a crisis? Here’s why The drug serves a potentially important medical niche providing an alternative for rapid pain relief in austere settings like the battlefield.
November 11, 2018 Veterans fought for our right to vote – Don’t let Florida election officials take it away Thank veterans for protecting our right to vote and let's keep elections honest.
November 11, 2018 This Veterans Day, let us especially remember those who perished in this oft-forgotten war One hundred years ago this Sunday, an armistice ended the fighting in the Meuse-Argonne region of France. To say it was welcome would be a vast understatement: Between September 26 and November 11, 1918, more than a million American soldiers had been engaged in fierce battle against the depleted but determined forces of imperial Germany. With more than 26,000 dead and more than 95,000 wounded, the battle stands as the bloodiest single military engagement in U.S. history.
November 11, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence: Veterans Day – Veterans have no better friend than President Trump It’s Veterans Day and Americans will pause to pay tribute to men and women who served in the armed forces of the United States.
November 11, 2018 Veterans Day honor for retired Air Force colonel, 81, a former POW at 'Hanoi Hilton' in Vietnam A retired Air Force Colonel who spent years as a prisoner-of-war at the notorious ‘Hanoi Hilton’ in North Vietnam will serve as the grand marshal at the Dallas Veterans Day Parade.
November 10, 2018 Veterans Day: 75 years later, WWII Marine Corps war dog handler still remembers his dogs I went into the Marine Corps in 1942 and signed up for a four-year hitch. I was 17-years-old when I went in, and stationed in Jacksonville, Florida – a long way from Elmira, New York.
November 10, 2018 Former SEAL Jocko Willink: My Veterans Day message When I was a boy, I remember I would sometimes see veterans. Sometimes in a documentary or some kind of history special on television. Sometimes at a parade or some other kind of local event. Sometimes it would be a friend of my parents or grandparents that had served. Sometimes it was even just an old picture in a book or painting of a combat veteran hanging on a wall.
November 9, 2018 Van Hipp: On Veterans Day, an open letter to my children on appreciating American patriots To mark Veterans Day and salute the brave Americans who have defended our freedom, I’ve written this open letter to my children. It’s a message worth sharing.