Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA, May 19, 2025 – The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1649 have ...

For Thomas White, a Vietnam War veteran from Massachusetts, Memorial Day holds a deep personal significance far beyond just a three-day weekend. "I came home," said White. "But we lost 58,400 guys in ...

Each year, dozens of needy veterans in the area struggle to pay for their final arrangements. Unable to finance interment, loved ones sometimes will hold onto their cremated remains for years ...

In the Marine Corps and all the services, you don’t leave anybody behind. You don’t forget them, and this is part of that." ...

SUFFOLK, Va. — On Thursday, volunteers at the Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery began preparing the grounds for its Memorial Day ceremony, among them Virginia Natural Gas employees, Boy ...

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance thanked military heroes on Veterans Day, at a ceremony at Arlington ...

(WLUK) -- Memorial Day is a day to honor those lost in service to the United States, and a poignant way to do that is by visiting a burial site. One Northeast Wisconsin site was listed in a poll of ...

U.S. Army Honor Guard Sgt. Austin Minter and SSG Ryan Wier salute the raising of the flag at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery on Memorial Day in Medical Lake.

The Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Milledgeville received a prestigious national honor Tuesday, earning an Operational Excellence Award from the National Cemetery Administration. The cemetery ...