BY BOB SMITH rsmith@soundpublishing.com Mick Hersey is doing all he can to ensure names like Nathan Stoddard, Levi Cline, Otto…
Eleven Kitsap County residents have received the Medal of Honor, five for heroism during World War II. MACHINIST DONALD K….
By SARA N. MILLER smiller@soundpublishing.com “I never drank coffee in the service, I never did until I got married,” said…
By RICHARD WALKER rwalker@soundpublishing.com HANSVILLE — John T. “Mike” Wolf was 20 in 1941, getting close to graduating from Long…
By CHRIS CHANCELLOR Facebook. Skype. Twitter. The proliferation of social media provides instant access to those separated by time zones…
By Leslie Kelly If you ask Navy veteran Harry Risch what’s the toughest job in the Navy, he’ll tell you…
The nature of the battlefield has changed and with it the wounds; more and more soldiers are coming home with…
Last spring, Jeff Honeycutt had a problem with his volunteer-based van transportation system taking veterans from the Bremerton Community Based…
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…
The idea to write down my thoughts came as I realized, after a month in the desert of the Middle…
“Sometimes I think the motto should be ‘Semper Gumby,’ always flexible.”
D-Day 68 years later, my buddy Steve and I had only two weeks for mid-tour leave from Iraq, and we…
Hoffmann was a 23-year-old sergeant when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Hoffmann was stationed at the…
These days, when I brag on myself as a driver I rarely bring up my best work – the 100…
Declines in VFW membership not as severe in Washington state, getting younger veterans involved remains a challenge
