Veterans

Veterans Day is typically reserved to honor those who have served in our country’s military, but this year, one veteran is making a call to take that gratitude a bit further and help those impacted by blast injuries. The issue revolves around TBI, or traumatic brain injuries — a signature wound for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. Dennis Hernandez, an...

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general.

President Biden spoke at the last Veterans Day event of his presidency at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.

After working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. A bouncy labradoodle and a Kansas City-area program helped her get back on her feet. Dogs 4 Valor, operated through an organization called The Battle Within, helps retired veterans and first responders in the...

Many veterans who’ve started small businesses tell a similar story: Their military service prepared them mentally for the task, but they were at a disadvantage when it came to the financial part.

The federal holiday of Veterans Day falls on Monday, Nov. 11, for 2024. The day, which honors living veterans who served in the military, dates back to 1919.

Through 22Mohawks’ Pups for Vets program, Millis WWII veteran and widower Edward Shropshire has a pet dog who gives him “somebody to love.”

Thanks to the Pups for Vets program and 22 Mohawks, Massachusetts WWII veteran Edward “Buddy” Shropshire has a friend to keep him from getting lonely: Puppy the Cavalier King Charles spaniel.

In appreciation of Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11, businesses will honor active-duty and retired military with all sorts of deals.

Both Veterans Day and Memorial Day have significant meaning to many veterans, members of the U.S. armed services and their families.

The statistics come amid renewed calls to change a law that has thrown many veterans into sudden hardship.

Comedian Jon Stewart and troops sickened by uranium have ended a meeting at the Department of Veterans Affairs angry that once again they have been told they will have to wait to see whether the VA will connect their illnesses to the toxic base where they were deployed shortly after 9/11.

Special operations forces deployed to Karshi-Khanabad, or “K2,” in Uzbekistan have pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs for help for years, but so far the VA has not acted.

The Best Defense Foundation brought American veterans back to the battlefields where they served.

World War II veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot near the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France. He’s 100, she’s a youngster of just 96.

Alfred Consigli was one of seven brothers from Milford, Massachusetts, who fought in World War II. On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the 100-year-old shared many of his memories of his time on the frontlines. “I get the letter from the government to report at 17 years old for a physical to go into the service, as soon as you…

Robert Persichitti suffered a medical episode while on a ship en route to Normandy, he was airlifted to a hospital in Germany and “died peacefully” to music by his favorite artist, Frank Sinatra.

While the U.S. military used the herbicide to defoliate the dense jungles of Vietnam and adjoining countries, it was contaminating the land and waters on U.S. bases with the same chemicals, according to documents.

A breakthrough program developed at the Boston VA medical center is helping heal the psychological and physical wounds of war. It tailors treatments to veterans struggling to adjust to civilian life by treating all the health issues at the same time instead of individually. Like so many of America’s veterans, John Spagna returned from war a fractured and fragmented...

The Army-Navy game is a sporting spectacle brimming passionately with patriotism and pageantry, and for the first time ever, it was played in Massachusetts. In the stands at Gillette Stadium on Saturday was the state’s first ever secretary of Veteran Services, a new cabinet-level position in the Healy administration: Jon Santiago. In the lead-up to the game, NBC10 Boston...