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Republicans are expressing outrage at Veterans Affairs recent announcement that it wants to offer “gender reassignment” surgery to vets.

Tunnel to Towers announced a reading on Veterans Day of all 7,059 names of service members who sacrificed their lives in the post-9/11 wars.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.

An 84-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Mississippi joined students from Port Gibson High School to receive his high school diploma on Friday.

As Americans are taking the time out to honor veterans this Memorial Day weekend, one Missouri man is seeking out the owner of a boxed flag he found in the middle of the road.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a military veteran, provided a pointed Memorial Day message on Sunday, urging the American people to “reject the self-serving warmongers & media propagandists who are now preparing the American ppl for more wars.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) recalled his service in the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as the Old Guard, while reflecting on the sacrifice of those who died in America’s armed forces ahead of Memorial Day.

While reflecting on the purpose of Memorial Day, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) told Breitbart News Americans who lost their lives in armed conflicts are “sewn into the fabric of America.”

Thousands of bikers gathered at RFK stadium in Washington, DC, on Sunday for the Rolling to Remember event to draw attention to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Veterans ripped Harris’s tweet that made no mention of the purpose of Memorial Day, which is to honor those who died fighting for the nation.

Goya Foods, which became the target of failed boycott attempts last year after the company’s CEO Robert Unanue praised then-President Donald Trump, is holding a Memorial Day event in Texas on Monday, honoring veterans and fallen heroes.

A 17-year-old named Christian Juvet has been working hard on restoring a huge concrete American flag at a local park in California to complete his Eagle Scout project.

The Pentagon has blamed coronavirus health concerns for the rejection of a permit for the Rolling to Remember motorcycle ride to honor POW/MIA veterans, according to event organizers.

Britain’s first Veterans Minister, now sacked, has denounced Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office a “cesspit” of “snakes” and “cowards”.

(AFP) — Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders attended Anzac Day dawn services Sunday to honour their armed forces, a year after marking the solemn occasion from the isolation of their driveways.

Britain’s inaugural Minister for Veterans has accused “cowards” in the Boris Johnson administration of stabbing Northern Ireland veterans in the back after he was ejected from the government.

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has apologised after the Commonwealth War Graves Commission found itself guilty of “pervasive racism” with respect to the way some ethnic minority veterans were commemorated — or not — over 100 years ago.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has slammed the “inhuman” coronavirus rules which saw the Queen, 94, left sitting masked and alone at the funeral of her husband of 73 years.

A Pennsylvania woman left her full-time job as an educator after 17 years to launch a charity aimed at helping veterans.

The funeral of Second World War veteran Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband of over seven decades and Britain’s longest-serving consort, took place at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle on Saturday.

LONDON (AP) – This is the Order of Service for the funeral of Prince Philip on Saturday.

WINDSOR, England (AP) – Prince Philip will be remembered as a man of “courage, fortitude and faith” on Saturday, at a funeral that salutes both his service in the Royal Navy and his support for Queen Elizabeth II over three-quarters of a century.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), running for the United States Senate, says “Joe Biden’s America” includes stimulus checks for illegal aliens as American veterans struggle to get their benefits. 

A national veteran support organization is bringing its next mini-neighborhood to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at providing “presumptive U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs benefits to service members who have deployed and have illnesses due to exposure to burn pits and other toxins.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) ripped a House Armed Services Committee hearing on “extremism in the military” as “total nonsense.”

A disabled Coast Guard veteran can finally experience a taste of freedom outside of his home after two years after volunteers for a California-based nonprofit built him a wheelchair ramp.

A Nebraska veteran is raising money for other veterans in need by running four miles around his hometown every four hours.

LONDON (AP) — Prince Philip has had a successful heart procedure at a London hospital, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.

LONDON (AP) – Prince Charles went to a London hospital on Saturday to visit his father, Prince Philip, who was admitted earlier his week for “observation and rest” after falling ill.