As living World War II vets continue to leave us, and Vietnam Vets push their 80s, fewer and fewer American citizens will ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a middle-school student’s claim he had a free-speech right to wear a T-shirt stating ...

The Medinas were among the many Long Islanders who attended community parades or solemn ceremonies and visited military ...

Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most ...

Eighty-five. As squadron commander of a mortuary unit in the Middle East, that’s the number of flag-draped coffins I saluted.

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...

I don’t often do that, mostly because I don’t get angry that much — it’s not how I’m wired. But this week, I’m going with ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, ...

Memorial Day is considered by many to be the beginning of summer, when swimming pools are reopened and Little League baseball ...

Memorial Day commemorates the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, particularly those who ...

The Confederate cause is deeply ingrained in American military history, making the country's current debate over whether to retire the "rebel flag" all the more pertinent to service members who ...

Jared Hagerman, an African American behavior therapist who grew up in the area, said he has been around the Confederate flag all of his life. Hagerman said he has good friends who have worn the ...