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SOLON, Iowa (KCRG) - Two dozen veterans are being honored for Flag Day this weekend in Eastern Iowa. Flag poles are being ...
The day was capped off by an Evening of Honor, in which the veterans were taken out for a boat ride, before being returned to ...
Each year, Americans recognize their military veterans on the Memorial and Veterans Day holidays. But few think about them on National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29 – or even realize it exists.
Those five days in November were cold, and seemed colder inside the gates of Auschwitz and of Birkenau. We were 90 retreatants from many nations – Israel, ...
Korean War veteran Sgt. Howard William Osterkamp is credited with the popular phrase "all gave some. and some gave all," reflecting on the sacrifices made by those who served in the military. But ...
The Vietnam Veterans ... slabs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington are never without visitors. Better known simply as “the Wall,” the stones are carved with the names of more ...
Scottsdale’s memorial was inspired by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. “The Wall” has carved into it the names of the 58,300 ... a bugler performance and a wreath and flag presentation – along with ...
Guy Widerhold, who was a medic in Vietnam, recently placed Memorial Day flags at ... war dead, carved in black granite from India – the same stone used in the Vietnam Veterans Monument in ...
The cemetery where he rests is full of Canadian veterans — but only one ... honor Canadians who had fought and died in Vietnam under the U.S. flag. It did not. The inscription reads: “Erected ...
The hardware retailer is partnering with the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization to give away one million American flags on Saturday ... commander Al Lipphardt, a Vietnam War veteran, said.
Flags from each of the military’s six branches hang on poles around the memorial, which includes a concrete path of six large squares that will be filled with bricks bearing local veterans’ names ...
It’s the beginning of the 35th annual Run For The Wall, a cross-country trek mostly by former military, ending in an emotional assemblage in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington ...