Father’s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington, at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the ...

The Oley Valley American Legion Post #878 hosted two events in observance of Memorial Day on Sunday ... and a 21-gun salute honoring the veterans at that cemetery. The guest speaker was John ...

World War II veterans depart for D-Day commemoration events A group of roughly two dozen veterans from that war left Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to make the journey to Normandy ...

A touching scene from a Memorial Day ceremony at Mout Moor, the historic African American cemetery that houses the graves of 32 local veterans. (All photos by Andrea Swenson) On Monday, May 26, there ...

Solemn words and patriotic melodies filled the air as Yale honored its veteran students and community members for Veterans Day. On Monday, the university held its annual ceremony at the World War I ...

The American Veterans Traveling Tribute (AVTT) has announced a 4-day long weekend event that will pay tribute to fallen U.S. Veterans. Before the event begins, the American Legion Riders ...

The Bonus Army demonstration at the U.S. Capitol on July 2, 1932. Underwood and Underwood, via Library of Congress ...

SPOONER – Red, white and blue American flags were everywhere, billowing on the breeze during an absolutely glorious May afternoon at the Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Spooner.

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Okaloosa County will hold its third annual Women Veterans Day ceremony on June 12. Two new statues of pioneering women veterans, Capt. Linda Bray and Florence Ebersole Smith Finch, will be unveiled.