VetStories

Gardner/Briggs Illustration

Phil Briggs

May 23, 2019 - 1:56 pm

Flags for Fallen Vets has a Memorial Day mission

Hear how Flags for Fallen Vets and their army of volunteers, ensure no veteran's grave site is forgotten on Memorial Day.

Ghost Army Legacy Foundation

Julia LeDoux

May 20, 2019 - 2:31 pm

Soldiers of the 'Ghost Army' helped America deceive its way to victory

They used lumber, cardboard and whatever else they could find to build phony convoys, fake divisions and make-believe headquarters that misled the Germans about the strength and location of American units.

DVIDS

Julia LeDoux

April 26, 2019 - 3:38 pm

Frederick Clinton didn't fight in just one war. He fought in three.

“They thought I was 17,” Frederick Clinton, who is now 91 and lives in Alexandria, Va., said with a chuckle. “They said 'you’re a warm body, you’ll do.’”

Phil Briggs

April 19, 2019 - 1:07 pm

Combat Camera vet recalls climbing Kilimanjaro with NFL 'Waterboys'

As a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent, Micah Snead photographed Operation Iraqi Freedom on two deployments. As a veteran, he still wanted to serve so he joined up with the Waterboys, an organization that brings together combat veterans and professional athletes to bring life-sustaining water to...