By JOHNNY WALKER Special to Veterans Life What does the son of a World War II Navy frogman do after…
Cdr. John D. Kolata, USN (ret.) was commanding officer of the USS Manitowoc (LST 1180), which conducted the shipborne amphibious…
By RICHARD WALKER Henry “Penny” Hillaire was smiling in almost every photo on display and in the slideshow at his…
By RICHARD WALKER Veterans Life POULSBO — It’s been 40 years, but the memories are fresh. MaryAnn Harris was Lt….
The nature of the battlefield has changed and with it the wounds; more and more soldiers are coming home with…
Bill Nickerson cringes at the memory when he moved from his native Seattle to Washington Veterans Home at Retsil in…
That’s me in the photo above. I’m playing chess with a Beretta M9 strapped to my chest. It’s nothing fancy,…
You might have seen him on the cover of Newsweek or Soldier of Fortune; a 21-year-old George Aquiningoc shown with…
For Army veteran James Anderson, accepting help can seem to be a contradiction with a way of life built upon…
Bremerton’s American Legion Post 68 didn’t just go bankrupt and lose its charter all by itself. Quite simply, more gambling…
The idea to write down my thoughts came as I realized, after a month in the desert of the Middle…
The pitfalls veterans and their families face when using the GI Bill
It is a common refrain among veterans-rights activists: They just want what they deem as fair for service rendered to…
“Sometimes I think the motto should be ‘Semper Gumby,’ always flexible.”
GI Bill helps Vietnam vet kickstart academic career
“It was hot. Muggy. There were bugs and jungle everywhere. There was an odor – it was just so different…
When I ask Vietnam War veteran Dan Gillman whether or not “veterans for peace” is an oxymoron, he barely misses…
For many World War II submarine veterans the end of an era will occur in September 2012 when the United…
D-Day 68 years later, my buddy Steve and I had only two weeks for mid-tour leave from Iraq, and we…
To say veterans are inclined to help those in need is not a controversial statement.
