Watching the ceremonies today honoring our veterans stirred my mind. ...more

November 14, 2007

Students at Chiles Elementary didn't have to travel far to see some of this country's most famous monuments. Fourth-graders brought Lincoln, Jefferson and a collection of other memorials to the campus Friday. The students studied and re-created the monuments for a project for Veterans Day. ...more

November 9, 2007

Capt. Russel P. Harris/Rudy J. Santacruz Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4321 will be rebuilt. ...more

October 17, 2007

As a Korean War veteran, Bud Collins gets most of his medical treatment at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center. ...more

October 13, 2007

Kipling memorialized the ability of a society to forget about its soldiers once the time of crisis had passed in his poem called "Tommy Atkins." Our country has on occasion shown a similar disregard for the welfare of our veterans as when President Hoover ordered Gen. McArthur to use force to drive a political protest of war veterans out of Washington, D.C. McArthur obliged by driving the marchers out of D.C. with fixed bayonets and ordered the burning of their encampment. Since then we have generally done better for our veterans, a farsighted G.I. Bill after World War II providing educational benefits, which well served the veterans and the nation for a generation. I personally will be forever grateful for the education I received under P.L. 550 at the end of the Korean War, without which I could never have attended college. ...more

October 12, 2007