This feature is part of an ongoing video series of veteran interviews conducted by Linda Williams and Don Counts at the ...
John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...
World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Video above: Schab reflects on Pearl Harbor ...
Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest ...
Retired Air Force Captain Jerry Neal is one of about 1,200 living World War II veterans in Tennessee Neal regularly speaks about his combat service in part to represent "young people that went into ...
World War II was nearing its end in March 1945 when Russell Sattazahn found himself taking cover from enemy fire with other GIs in the basement of a German house. At first they felt protected, but the ...
He looks at their portraits and sees their souls. Their faces are wrinkled, yet proud. Their eyes tell him their stories. He can see them, feel them: their fears, their losses, their pride. Their ...
Veterans Day is important in the Pikes Peak region. We devote much time and attention to giving honor where it is due. As we should. This is a military oriented region with about 45,000 active-duty ...
Friends of the National World War II Memorial and the National Park Service on Tuesday co-hosted a Veterans Day observance at the memorial, honoring the 16 million American men and women who served in ...
Lee Sassi, a World War II Army veteran, receives the French Legion of Honor. (Photo from Army.mil) Leggio “Lee” Sassi’s ...
Community Hospice provided a service pin, flag, fellow Coast Guard members and an honor guard for Anita Morris, a World War ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A 100-year-old war veteran received an honor and thanks from a Midlands organization just days before Veterans Day. At 100 years old, Cook remembers his time of service clearly.