Shantel Cross and her two kids set three places for dinner for the veterans who live at their home in Baltimore — Charles McCoubrey, Peter Samaras and Ekkehard Thies. The three men couldn’t be happier to have a seat at the table. “It’s nice here. And being in a nursing home, they just throw you […]
MT. VERNON, Ill. – A Marine Corps veteran from Illinois is getting some major relief after having to struggle with treacherous conditions inside his own home. “Yeah, it was much needed,” Maxie Moore Jr. said. Moore watched as crews tore off his old roof, preparing to lay down a new one. He had been looking […]
SHELBY — In 2010, Shelby High School graduates Gary Seals (1966) and Mike Johnson (1963) discussed finding a way to honor veterans from Shelby High School (SHS). The result — a displayed list of anyone who graduated from SHS and joined any branch of the United States military. After speaking with the school administration, it […]
Douglasville Police are looking for thieves who targeted a firework stand that benefits local veterans. Channel 2′s Elizabeth Rawlins obtained surveillance video showing the exact moment thieves showed up to a Douglasville fireworks stand early Saturday morning. In the video, you see a red truck pull up to the Big Grin fireworks stand located off […]
Former President Donald Trump wrapped up Thursday’s debate in Atlanta, Georgia, and heads to Chesapeake, Virginia on Friday. When he gets there, he will be greeted not just by supporters in red MAGA hats: The Democratic National Committee plans circle Trump’s rally armed with a mobile billboard displaying his disrespect toward the country’s veterans. “Donald […]
It was Father’s Day when members of a team working at OhioHealth Marion General Hospital said they witnessed a moving show of support from two veterans. Marion General Hospital provides a flag ceremony for veteran who die at the hospital. On June 16, when Navy veteran Richard Austin passed away, it was time for that […]
President Joe Biden is set to pardon thousands of veterans who were convicted under a military law that prohibited gay sex, his administration announced on Wednesday. The pardon will apply to service members convicted between 1951 and 2013 under Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalized sodomy and essentially banned gay […]
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will use clemency authority to pardon former service members who were convicted of crimes because of their sexual orientations or gender identities. Biden will issue a proclamation pardoning veterans who were convicted under a provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibiting gay sex, senior administration officials said […]
By Stephanie Kelly and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Wednesday that would set in motion a process to pardon U.S. veterans convicted by the military for gay sex, which was illegal until the provision was repealed in late 2013. The Biden administration estimates that the proclamation could affect […]
PEA RIDGE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The construction of a new home for an army veteran who lost his right leg in 2004 while on patrol in Iraq, is almost complete. Homes For Our Troops is an organization dedicated to constructing and gifting specially adapted custom homes to severely injured post-9/11 veterans. NWA army veteran becomes […]
FALL RIVER — The city’s new director of Veterans’ Services, Talos “Doc” Farris, knows firsthand how the horrors of battle can affect servicemembers mentally and physically. Farris knows, because after serving 15 years as a Navy hospital corpsman — on the battlefield for a good portion of his service with the Marine Corps in Iraq […]
Anyone driving along Robinwood Drive has seen the new classroom building quickly rising next to Robinwood Professional Center, all glass and white and Meritus blue. Work is progressing on the D.M. Bowman Academic Hall for the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine, set to open in autumn 2025. But a visit from Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman […]