Stories by Others

Veterans often have a difficult time reintegrating into their communities. One Alabama veteran, however, used secretly paying citizen’s bills as his way to re-integrate into his community. Many post-war vets who successfully get back to normal life don’t necessarily thrive due to a lack of res...

Starting Jan. 17, Veterans in suicidal crisis can go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for free emergency health care WASHINGTON – Starting Jan. 17, Veterans in acute suicidal crisis will be able to go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for emergency health care at no cost – includi...

On Christmas Eve 1944, heavy snow blanketed the Hürtgen Forest in Germany, near the Belgian border. Inside a tiny cabin deep in the woods, 12-year-old Fritz Vincken and his mother, Elisabeth, listened to warplanes and artillery shells as the Battle of the Bulge neared its climax. As they tried t...

I learned this week that the government of my city, New York, is advocating for reducing restrictions on police officers bringing individuals in for mandatory psychiatric care against their wills. We’ve discussed why emergency care is problematic in Substack before.  This directive from the mayo...

FILE - Medal of Honor recipient Hiroshi Miyamura, a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Medal of Honor Museum on March 25, 2022, in Arlington, Texas. (Amanda McCoy/Star-Telegram via AP, File) PHOENIX, Ariz. — Hiroshi “Hershey” Miy...

Tuskegee Airman William Rice of Morton, Pa., died at his home Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, days before his 99th birthday. (Philadelphia Tuskegee Airmen/Facebook) (Tribune News Service) — On Sunday, days before his 99th birthday, Tuskegee Airman William Rice of Morton died at his home. His family said...

Vietnam Veteran Emmitt Yeary tallks about his time in the service and the founding of the Veteran's Park in Abingdon.DAVID CRIGGER/BHC ABINGDON, Va. — Emmitt Yeary was a captain in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, stationed in Vietnam, when he received a letter postmarked Abingdon from...

A military surgeon performs an emergency appendectomy as other medical team members assist. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Andrew Brame/U.S. Navy). Special Forces Master Sgt. Richard Stayskal began having problems breathing in March 2017, and within months he was coughing up blood. Mil...

More than 3,770 sailors and Marines who were medically discharged between Sept. 12, 2016, and June 11, 2018, may be eligible for medical retirement from the Defense Department under a federal judge's ruling last week in Washington, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled Sept. 29 tha...