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A car dealership gave a free truck to a veteran who transported wounded victims to the hospital following the Las Vegas shooting.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump presented the Medal of Honor to former Specialist Five James C. McCloughan of the U.S. Army for “for conspicuous gallantry during the Vietnam War.”

Marines who served in Iraq and Afghanistan outraged at the assault of a 92-year-old World War II (WWII) veteran from Texas defending his country’s flag are coming together to ensure he gets the respect he deserves.

A U.S. Army veteran and another soldier have been killed in Raqqa while fighting alongside the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG).

A veteran’s daughter from Georgia has vowed to display American flags outside her home even after they were stolen nine times.

A Marine was shot and killed at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Bedford, Indiana, early Saturday morning, police say.

A judge found a 75-year-old veteran not guilty of illegally hanging American flags on the fence of a Veterans’ Affairs facility in West Los Angeles on Tuesday.

A New York City man who allegedly pushed an Army veteran into the path of an oncoming vehicle could face up to 25 years in prison.

For some years now, one of the worst things on Twitter has been @harryslaststand. It purports to be the account of a 93-year old World War II veteran called Harry Leslie Smith who comments on the day’s news from a bitter, angry, hard-left-wing perspective.

HOUSTON, Texas — The “Stars and Stripes” program at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office jail in Texas boasts an eight percent recidivism rate among military veteran offenders.

Thousands of Donald Trump for President rally-goers came out to support their candidate in Wilmington, North Carolina on Tuesday, some for many hours.

An 86-year-old veteran from Detroit crossed skydiving off his bucket list Sunday, and FOX 2 was there to see it.

A U.S. Army National Guard staff sergeant says he and one of his Army veteran friends were assaulted by Black Lives Matter supporters in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday Evening. “As I was getting my face stomped in and thrown through a window, they (all 4 of them) were yelling racial slurs saying how whites sucked and black lives were better,” Marc Stephen, the second victim, said on Facebook.

The Texas Hazlewood Act gives veterans, and in certain instances their children and their spouses, up to 150 hours of free tuition. An appellate court has upheld a challenge to the Act’s residency-at-enlistment requirement holding the provision is constitutional.

Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett tweeted on Memorial Day weekend, “American’s teens & 20-somethings once had a different understanding of ‘safe spaces.'”

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald is questioning whether Donald Trump’s veterans adviser is qualified to speak about the failures of his department.

Texas veterans made sure that a homeless veteran received the dignity of a proper funeral. The troubled veteran had died alone.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump offered an African-American female reporter, a 9-11 survivor and Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, a job during his press conference at the Old Post Office, which is being renovated into Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., causing the young woman to shed tears.

Decorated Marine veteran Christopher Marquez was eating dinner in Washington, D.C., last Friday, when, reportedly, he was viciously attacked by a gang of black teenagers, who asked the war hero if he believes black lives matter.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina impressed a veteran at a town hall in Marion, Iowa, so much that he took off his hat and started a collection for her–raising roughly $800 by the end of the event.

Iraq War veteran Justin Anderson transformed his wheelchair into a plow to help his community during snowy weather.

Over one thousand residents turned up at the funeral of an Indianapolis veteran who had no remaining family to give him a dignified send off.

U.S. Marine Corp veteran Billy C. Aldridge, 80, passed away at his nursing facility in Indianapolis, but the nurses could not find any records of family members. So over 1,000 people crammed into the Lawrence United Methodist Church to honor the veteran for his service.

Retired Army Captain Florent Groberg was awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday, in recognition of valiant actions that left him maimed but saved many other lives. Specifically, he tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz is taking precautions after noticing a Navy veteran filed a $5 million suit against the U.S. government, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior, and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park after a heavy cone from a bunya pine tree fell, striking him on the head.

A restaurant in Chicago is apologizing for kicking out a military veteran because he had a service dog with him.

Abram Belles, a 91-year-old WWII veteran from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, was all set to be ushered out of the home he’s lived in for almost 70 years because of an overdue tax bill. But nearly 200 people on the Internet unexpectedly rallied to his side to raise the money he needed to stay in his home.

An employee for a Cincinnati, Ohio, area minor league baseball team claims that he was fired for putting a halt to his work when the National Anthem began playing.

A California Vietnam Marine Corps veteran fought off a bear attack outside of his Mariposa County home last week with his bare hands.

Police in Pascagoula, Mississippi, reported on Monday that two 16-year-old males were arrested for last week’s attack on the home of a local 85-year-old military veteran.

A 94-year-old World War veteran living in Modesto with his wife was brutally beaten in a home invasion on Friday–and is fighting for his life. Richard Iverson was left in an induced coma at the Memorial Medical Center after a man

ADDISON, Texas — Former Governor Rick Perry’s (R-TX) 2012 presidential campaign was a roller coaster ride, shooting to the top of the polls when he first entered the race, then plummeting back down after a series of debate missteps.

The 2016 Republican congressional primary race in Florida’s 18th congressional district could very well shape up to be one of the most, if not the most, contested and looked upon primary races of the upcoming election cycle.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, currently preparing for a second presidential campaign, had a hard-hitting op-ed in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Friday, with a sharp critique of America’s current foreign policy aimed not just at President Barack Obama, but at Congressional leaders from both parties.

On Saturday, around 2 p.m. in Boonville, New York, a veteran who kept his $2,000 prosthetic eye inside his car in a small black bag found it had been stolen.

A U.S. Air Force veteran who was recently fired from his job as an airplane mechanic plotted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and was arrested on terrorism charges, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.