Linda F. Hersey

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

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

By Linda F. Hersey FAIRBANKS, ALASKA — Stephanie Allen counted down the days, then hours, until she would shutter forever the only retail shop in Fairbanks dedicated exclusively to cold-pressed juices made to order. Go Wild! Juicery was always something of a mis­fit on outer Lathrop Street, wedged between an ax-throwing club and the stripped-down

By Linda F. Hersey WASHINGTON — Just before entering the Army, 19-year-old James N. Rollins asked his high school girlfriend to marry him. His mom paid for the ring. More boy than man, Rollins was drafted in 1967, leaving his Maryland home for the first time for training at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Gordon,

By Linda F. Hersey WASHINGTON — For veteran J. Kimo Williams, a composer and musician, the military and war are themes that he revisits in a career that spans nearly 50 years — from his tour in Vietnam to his research on discrimination Black veterans experienced after World War I. “I kept a notebook filled

By Linda F. Hersey WASHINGTON — Kenneth Landry was deployed in Kuwait as an air-traffic controller with Air Force special operations in 2014 when an ATV rollover knocked him unconscious and pinned him underneath the vehicle. Landry was pulled out by fellow service members and airlifted to Germany, where he was hospitalized in intensive care

By Linda F. Hersey Inside Defense/Inside Washington Publishers NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — A modernized approach to integrated fighting is transforming strategies and the mindset for future maritime combat operations, according to a panel of Navy and Marine Corps leaders speaking Tuesday at the Sea-Air-Space conference. Fighting multiple fleets simultaneously is among the challenges that military