Memorial Day, a national holiday to honor the 1.17 million men and women who have died to create and maintain the freedoms outlined in our Constitution, is not the only Memorial Day. The holiday ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Once buried in the past, a mother's love found new life recently when a retired Fort Carson Soldier rediscovered poetry his mother wrote for his older brother, fighting with ...

Although Veterans Day is a national holiday, often filled with parades and celebrations, it brings with it ambiguity. Howard Zinn, a World War II veteran, once wrote, “I do not want the recognition of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KTIV) - A Le Mars veteran has been honoring fallen veterans for decades with a special poem. Jim Rolfes was a veteran selected to go on Midwest Honor Flight Mission 26 out of Sioux ...

Good writing often has its roots in trauma. And for Americans who served in the Vietnam War, it’s sometimes hard to separate personal trauma from anger at the government that sent them to a war they ...

There’s nothing quite like a poem to give you a glimpse into someone else’s personal heaven or hell. To honor Military Appreciation Month, I thought I’d share a few slices of ours. Like the ...

It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. It was a brutal ...

ABC15 celebrates a Mesa police officer who is helping other veterans make the transition from soldier to civilian. Before Sean Stoddard's life as a Mesa cop, he was in the Army spending years of his ...

The board of directors of the WNC Veterans’ Memorial has announced that they are withdrawing a controversial poem and instead proposing a new set of two inscriptions for the memorial, which is slated ...

James Dubinsky received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to put on a three-week Summer Institute for faculty on Veterans in Society. He is affiliated with Virginia Tech Veterans ...