On a weekend where we stand in recognition of those who have served, organizations which represent those who have stood served aren’t taking the NFL’s disrespect for the national anthem, lying down. Though, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion aren’t calling for an outright boycott of the NFL over the weekend.
Main Street Patriots are rallying fellow citizens to show their support across the United States for the American flag and the national anthem on Veteran’s Day weekend as a way to send a message about the importance of standing and saluting during the playing of the national anthem at NFL football games.
A U.S. Army veteran has turned a negative experience into a positive one by launching a campaign to feed hungry and homeless vets after he was denied a free meal at the Chili’s Bar and Grill in Cedar Hill, Texas, in observance of Veterans Day.
47-year-old Army veteran Ernest Walker went to a Chili’s in Cedar Hill, Texas, on Veterans Day to take advantage of the restaurant’s offer of a free meal, only to have his to-go box snatched away by a manager in a viral-video incident.
During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama marked Veterans Day by saying, “we look to the principles that are more enduring than politics. And some of the best examples are found in the men and women we saluted yesterday, and every
During Friday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) “Politicians come and go, but the service of our veterans is an unbroken chain.” And “far too often in recent years, the stories we hear [from veterans] are ones of struggle.”
Women and men of a variety of backgrounds held up signs and flags on the side of the road just ahead of the entrance to the north San Diego County military base. Some wore Make America Great Again hats.
A federal judge has denied a new trial request filed by four decorated U.S. veterans, who were convicted of allegedly shooting indiscriminately into a crowd of Iraqi civilians back in 2007 while working as Blackwater security contractors hired by the federal government.
CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill decided to celebrate Veterans Day by posting an image of women in Cuba’s revolutionary army.
An Iowa-based charity relies on donations to cover the veterinary and training expenses associated with raising service dogs that are placed with veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the organization’s executive director told the Breitbart News Daily radio show.
On Wednesday, November 11, Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s are partnering with Activision Blizzard to raise money for America’s veterans.
The nation’s oldest living veteran is spending Veterans Day in an Austin, Texas hospital instead of celebrating a day he has earned. The 109-year-old was hospitalized with pneumonia.
Retired Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk almost didn’t make it to retirement, when his lesbian commanding officer relieved him of duty because he refused her order to declare that Americans who believe in traditional marriage unfairly discriminate against homosexuals,
President Obama is admitting that the problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs aren’t fixed on his watch. But during a ceremony for Veterans’ Day, he promised to keep working to improve services.
It is a long-term and striking characteristic of the American people to show particular devotion to their soldiers. The famed French observer of American life, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood in the 1830’s how the people of a participatory republic like the United States would be both fierce in war and show an uncommon devotion to those who had served in the military.
Cities across America are celebrating Veterans Day today with parades and ceremonies. People in their communities are congregating in schools, town halls, and public venues to celebrate those among them and those who have passed for serving in our military and keeping America free.
Gary – Well, Ken…Veterans day is here and though we’ve both acted in movies and played men in combat, neither of us were ourselves ever in the military. But I know you have a deep respect and admiration, as I do, for those who serve and have served.
According to the study, cities in California and Texas provide the best living standards for former service members
During Veterans Day week in Chicago, a new transportation service for our military veterans is being launched. It combines the best of both the private and public sector to offer the potential for the nation’s first scalable veterans serving veterans initiative that could transform the lives of many veterans.
People discovered vandalized gravestones and urns of veterans at a cemetery in West Bridgewater, MA, only days before Veterans Day.
Veterans Day is Wednesday and the Obama administration is marking the holiday this week by hosting nearly 130 naturalization ceremonies across the country.
Representative Sam Johnson (R-TX), a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and a former prisoner in the Hanoi Hilton talked about his time in Vietnam during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address, which focused on Veterans’ Day. Transcript as Follows: Wednesday
According to WHOTV, a group of students at Seattle Pacific University are being told they cannot say the Pledge of Allegiance or present the colors at a ceremony to honor this country’s veterans on Veterans Day. The “Students for Military Veterans
SANTA MONICA, California — A local California Marine Corps Veteran installs American flags for homes to help instill pride and patriotism into his own neighborhood.
