With the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-led “D-Day” invasion of Normandy, France approaching, the French government awarded two local World War II veterans with Legion of Honor medals Friday in appreciation of their gallant actions that helped free France from the grip of Nazi Germany’s occupation.
Walker Furniture has launched a Help for Heroes program to help local wounded warriors and veterans with special needs live more comfortable lives.
A veterans motorcycle group, 2 Million Bikers to DC, will team up with the nonprofit Nevada Veterans Foundation on Saturday for a “Stars & Stripes Pride Ride” to raise funds to build a Fisher House for wounded warriors and their families in the Las Vegas Valley.
Today, as veterans and families across the nation pause for Memorial Day, Gene Ramos of Las Vegas will be thinking about the comrades he lost in the Korean war and another friend who endured POW hardships with him.
To remember her husband on Memorial Day — and dozens of other relatives and friends who have served in this nation’s wars — all Phyllis Hebert has to do is look at a memorial wall she created in her Las Vegas home.
Retired Army Sgt. Charles Copeland was surprised when Rep. Joe Heck presented him a Memorial Day award Saturday, and then again when he was presented with a new Chevrolet Silverado, but he didn’t tear up until Findlay Chevrolet gave his 3-year-old daughter a car of her own — a motorized toy Corvette.
As scandals swirl around the Department of Veterans Affairs and investigators look for evidence of cover-ups and cooking the books at 26 VA medical facilities nationwide, morale has slumped in one office at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center. Quarrels involving a North Las Vegas VA Medical Center staff member and volunteers with the Voluntary Services chief have erupted into profanity-laced exchanges, physical threats and allegations of fudging donation reports.
Over twenty thousand flags were placed this morning by the Disabled American Veterans National Order of Trenchrats; various units of the American Legion; Veterans of Foriegn Wars; Special Forces Association; Boy and girl scouts; cub scouts and US Marine Devil Pups.
The North Las Vegas VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas is one of the few places in the Department of Veterans Affairs where feet, ankles, legs, hands, wrists and arms are made from scratch and fitted to perfection.
Nevadans who died while serving in the armed forces will be honored at a variety of events in Southern Nevada over the weekend.
