Vietnam Veteran Heals War Wounds Through Art
This year’s Small Business Saturday on Nov. 29 meant a little more to artist and business owner Everett Carter. Carter, a Vietnam War veteran, was selling some of his art on a day when Americans are encouraged to support small entrepreneurs and shop local. However, Carter’s displays at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment in Huntsville, […]
Native American World War II Veteran, Final Member of Unit, Dies at 101
As the number of remaining World War II veterans continues to dwindle, Gilbert “Choc” Charleston, one of the last Native American WWII soldiers and the final surviving member of his unit, died on Thanksgiving night at age 101. The news of Charleston’s passing was confirmed by the Choctaw Nation, of which the veteran was a […]
Life as a Vietnam War Medic: Ohio Veteran Shares His Story
In his youth, Randy Ark enjoyed an idyllic childhood growing up in the rural parts of Clark County, Ohio. That feeling of innocence was shattered when Ark became a medic in Vietnam, getting an up close and personal look at the atrocities of war. Ark, 77, recently wrote two memoirs about his experiences, “Everyone […]
US Army Secretary Takes Unlikely Role as Key Negotiator in Push to End Russia-Ukraine War
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a matter of days, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll vaulted from being the leader of a military bureaucracy — where he’s been cutting red tape to quickly buy inexpensive drones — to a key negotiator in the Trump administration’s push to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The boyish Iraq War veteran, former venture […]
Task Force Smith: How the 24th Infantry Division Saved South Korea at the Start of the Korean War
In July of 1950, the Korean War looked as if it was about to come to an unexpectedly quick conclusion. South Korean troops had been pushed far south before gradually falling into a defensive line around the port of Pusan. Across the Sea of Japan, American soldiers boarded transport planes at Itazuke Air Base, Japan, […]
The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War: Green Berets and Seabees Fight for Survival at Dong Xoai
Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, 5th Special Forces Group, had arrived at Dong Xoai in late May 1965 to train local Montagnard tribesmen and South Vietnamese forces. On June […]
Disguised as a Man, She Fought in the Revolutionary War and Later for Recognition as a Veteran
Deborah Sampson covered her chest with a tight piece of cloth, adopted a man’s name and enlisted in the Continental Army’s elite light infantry in 1782. For 17 months, she marched through the Hudson River Valley, participated in dangerous reconnaissance missions and fought brutal hand-to-hand combat before a Philadelphia doctor discovered her secret in 1783. […]
How a Former Waffen-SS Officer Became an American War Hero Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne. But the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in Viipuri, Finland, on May 28, 1919, fought for three nations across three decades, and remains the only known former Waffen-SS member interred at Arlington […]
Lost for 82 Years, World War II Soldier’s Dog Tag Returns to Family
Karen Finnerty didn’t know much about her late father’s time in World War II. And since his passing, Finnerty has searched for more ways to connect with her dad and his military service. She never thought she would find a key part of who he was as a soldier, and in one of life’s most […]
How Ukraine’s Drone War Is Forcing the U.S. Army to Rewrite Its Battle Doctrine
The Army is overhauling how it fights in combat based on lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where drones have become the dominant weapon on the battlefield. The service is rethinking tank tactics, procurement systems, and unit structures as inexpensive drones prove more effective than traditional platforms. War Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a directive in July […]