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Small Town Shocked to Learn Army Veteran Was Secretly Paying Stranger’s Bills for a Decade

Veterans often have a difficult time reintegrating into their communities. One Alabama veteran, however, used secretly paying citizen’s bills as hi…

Meta Mereday, president and founder of the Veterans Entrepreneurial Development Initiative from Baldwin, pictured next to her mother Emma Mereday on the left, was selected to be included in the Military Veterans in Journalism’s expert directory this month. COURTESY META MEREDAY

Meta Mereday selected for expert directory

Meta J. Mereday, president and founder of the Veterans Entrepreneurial Development Initiative from Baldwin, was selected to be included in the Milita…

VA & Non-VA Healthcare Facilities Now Free for Veterans in Suicide Crisis

Starting Jan. 17, Veterans in suicidal crisis can go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for free emergency health care WASHINGTON – Starting J…

Ending Veteran Suicide: Let’s Rethink This…

The rates of veteran suicide are unacceptably high. Veterans deserve the best care. They sacrifice so much for all of us, and they deserve much bette…

It’s a Wonderful Life and Veteran Suicide — We Need More Clarence’s

It’s that terrible/joyful holiday period when we push aside our pains and disappointments to join with the joy of the season and imagine a coming yea…

German prisoners of war carry the body of an American soldier through deep snow during the Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes sector of Belgium in late 1944. Nearby, German and U.S. soldiers shared a Christmas Eve dinner. (AP)

U.S. and German soldiers shared Christmas Eve dinner at height of WWII

On Christmas Eve 1944, heavy snow blanketed the Hürtgen Forest in Germany, near the Belgian border. Inside a tiny cabin deep in the woods, 12-year-ol…

Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization can be Horrifying

I learned this week that the government of my city, New York, is advocating for reducing restrictions on police officers bringing individuals in fo…

FILE - Medal of Honor recipient Hiroshi Miyamura, a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Medal of Honor Museum on March 25, 2022, in Arlington, Texas. (Amanda McCoy/Star-Telegram via AP, File)

US Medal of Honor recipient Hiroshi Miyamura dies at 97

PHOENIX, Ariz. — Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, the son of Japanese immigrants who was awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding off an attack to allo…

Tuskegee Airman William Rice of Morton, Pa., died at his home Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, days before his 99th birthday. (Philadelphia Tuskegee Airmen/Facebook)

Pennsylvania Tuskegee Airman dies days before his 99th birthday

(Tribune News Service) — On Sunday, days before his 99th birthday, Tuskegee Airman William Rice of Morton died at his home. His family said he had s…

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