A number of Indigenous WWI soldiers pose for a photo at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. (Indiana University Archaeology and Anthropology Museum) “I’m so thankful that his blood runs in our veins,” said ...
BOISE — This Veterans Day falls on the 100th anniversary of Armistice, the day that commemorates the end of World War One. Several Veterans Day celebrations in Boise had a special emphasis on honoring ...
As Americans mark Veterans Day, the origins of the holiday are often lost. At the eleven o-clock hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, an armistice went into effect that ended what ...
While strolling through Dwayne Webster Veterans Park, residents may now notice a section of a brick walkway leading up to the monument on the northeast side of the park is full of new bricks. Taking a ...
Powelton Village has been honoring its unknown WWI soldier for years. His descendants have now been found and will join the ceremony this year. Joel Spivak holds an event in honor of a WWI at a small ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Veterans Day at the National WWI Museum and Memorial began with a heartwarming standing ovation for Command Sgt. Major David Clark, who reminded everyone in the auditorium to ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- This is a celebration no one takes any pleasure in planning. The event will pay tribute to the 4 million American men and women who answered the call to fight in the first world ...
Tewanna Anderson Edwards always admired her great uncle’s smile. It wasn’t until after he died that she learned about all the battles it hid. Otis Leader was among the first wave of American soldiers ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A statue called The Return from the Argonne was unveiled in Montgomery Thursday to pay tribute to Alabama’s WWI veterans. It coincided with the 103rd anniversary of the ...
Veterans Day — originally Armistice Day — was renamed in 1954 to include veterans who had fought in all wars. But the day of remembrance has... WWI Poetry: On Veterans Day, The Words Of War Veterans ...
“I’m so thankful that his blood runs in our veins,” said Tewanna Anderson-Edwards of her great uncle Otis W. Leader, a World War I Choctaw code talker. Leader, a corporal in the Army’s 16th Infantry ...