As the American Legion Post 8 battleship float rolled down Fourth Street Monday near the front of the annual Las Vegas Veterans Day parade, the two words spoken most often from tens of thousands of flag-waving spectators were “thank you.”
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An independent assessment of Nevada’s public employee pension plan set for review Wednesday gives the retirement program good marks, suggesting its unfunded liability will decline over the next 30 years, requiring lower taxpayer-backed contributions to keep fiscally healthy.
The early photographs give the impression of serenity — lush summer green along old country roadways and riverbeds, and the sense that the outing is as much an opportunity to clear the head as it is to work the body. Those were the early days of a 4,000-mile bike ride that at times pushed Curt Wildemann’s physical and emotional limits. But he still says it was all well worth it.
Spend one minute talking with world-renowned golf instructor Butch Harmon about his Harmon’s Heroes Foundation and you’ll realize this is a passionate endeavor for him.
On Oct. 12, Katherine DuPont went to Washington, D.C., with some fellow Southern Nevada World War II veterans to visit the wartime memorials that, for days, had been the subject of controversy because of the government shutdown and their subsequent closure.
Like many young men of his generation, Jack Mates didn’t talk much about what he did or experienced in the military during World War II. He came home, got married, raised a family and pursued a career that would adequately support him, his wife and kids. Reliving war exploits just didn’t’ seem that important to him.
After 17 years in the U.S. Air Force, Steven Matzeder was looking to settle into civilian life.
In 1943, 19-year-old Hughie “Gopher” Mills was living in Charleston W.Va., and working at a Lincoln automobile dealership preparing delivery of new vehicles. One of four boys, his idea was to save up enough money to attend West Virginia State College, about 12 miles from home.
In the Boulder City home of World War II veteran Ross Pirruccello, there is a map in a wide black frame hanging on his living room wall above a mantelpiece laden with family photos and a small, white angel statue with one missing wing.
Former U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tony Rodriguez gladly shares stories about how he fractured a rib and his shin while on a tour of duty in the Philippines during the late 1980s.
It’s been a long road to employment, but Yancy Louston is grateful for every step.
Kenneth Ruiz knows he’s a lucky man. It’s not a Vegas kind of luck that follows you to the tables. It’s the kind of luck you need to survive battles in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War.
Hundreds of soldiers, veterans and civilians attend the funeral of a 99-year-old former World War II airman they had never met, heeding the call on Twitter to attend the service so his passing would not go unmarked.
Sixty years later after the truce in Korea, Army veteran William “Bill” Miller recalls the “war” that cost the lives of friends around Pork Chop Hill.
The surviving Doolittle Raiders, all in their 90s, considered their place in history for their daring World War II attack on Japan amid thousands of cheering fans, as they prepared for a final ceremonial toast Saturday to their fallen comrades.