WASHINGTON — Adam Evans, a retired Air Force master sergeant, said he receives more than a dozen emails each week from veterans groups clamoring for his membership. Evans, 55, does not bother to open the invitations. “I’m not about to join a local post, drink stale beer and talk about stories from the past,” said […]
WASHINGTON — Christopher, a Marine Corps veteran who survived a truck explosion while serving in Afghanistan, said the near-death experience caused him to consider his own mortality and how he wants his burial to be handled. The 35-year-old Colorado resident, who declined to provide his last name, said he has done advance planning and conveyed
WASHINGTON — A World War II sailor presumed lost at sea when his ship hit a mine off the coast of Normandy, France, during D-Day operations will be commemorated at a family funeral with full military honors after his remains were positively identified more than 80 years after his death. Jerome Mullaney, an 18-year-old Navy
WASHINGTON — The highlight of a sparsely attended National Veterans Day Parade in the nation’s capital on Sunday was a brief ceremony featuring a commemorative sword displayed on a temporary stage before the first float rolled down Constitution Avenue. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, along with veterans from the Spartan Sword organization, unsheathed a
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In 2020, Matt Vitale, at right, then a sergeant first class, with Erik Brodin, then a staff sergeant, at Fort Leonard Wood, an Army training installation in Missouri. Vitale had completed aggressive treatment for an advanced stage of colon cancer. (Matt Vitale) WASHINGTON — Matt Vitale had just completed air assault school with the Missouri