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During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) argued against privatizing the VA, saying it would be “not just expensive. It’s a shirking of our responsibility as a nation. It’s a breaking of a promise to our veterans. And

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — himself a retired Navy SEAL veteran, the father of a Navy diver and father-in-law to a Navy SEAL — hosted the gathering to kickstart the initiative, one of his big priorities at the Department.

Iconic menswear brand Hickey Freeman’s latest ad campaign for its fall collection, titled “Heroes & Leaders,” exclusively features American war heroes and veterans and highlights the stories of their return home from combat.

An online radio station based out of Oklahoma gave veterans free car washes with the NFL treatment on Saturday.

It’s going to take a lot more than a major motor vehicle accident to stop these guys from getting to a baseball game.

Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is supposed to protect.

Judicial Watch has taken the lead in trying to highlight the government’s misconduct and misuse of a 388-acre parcel of land in Los Angeles, originally intended to serve the needs of veterans.

Country superstar Brad Paisley says the title track for his new album Love and War is meant to send a powerful message about how we need to do a better job of taking care of America’s veterans.

A Kansas restaurant has gained a lot of attention on the Internet after they put out a sign containing a powerful message about America’s fallen soldiers.

A Florida man has made it his duty to honor fallen veterans by restoring their gravestones to their original glory.

Gold Star families gathered in the Southern California city of Irvine on Sunday for the unveiling of the expanded Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial, which recognizes and memorializes the soldiers who have died defending the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.

Thousands of motorcyclists from across the nation have flooded Washington, D.C., Sunday for the annual Memorial Day weekend tradition Rolling Thunder.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) stated that the American Health Care Act cuts against the “moral obligation ‘to care for those who have borne the battle.’” Transcript as Follows: “Hello, I’m Tom Carper, a retired Navy

Monday at 1:45 p.m. ET, Vice President Pence and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin will host Honor Flight veterans for an event honoring Public Service Recognition Week and National Military Appreciation Month. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

A new report by the Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General has concluded that more than 100 veterans died while waiting for care at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (facility) hospital from October 2014 through August 2015.

In a tremendous victory for Judicial Watch and our supporters, a U.S. District Court in California has declared 75-year-old veteran Robert Rosebrock not guilty of violating federal law for allegedly displaying two four-by-six inch American Flags above a Veterans Affairs (VA) fence on Memorial Day, May 30, 2016.

Four Vietnam war heroes were honored Tuesday for their bravery during the Vietnam War 45 years ago.

President Donald Trump signed a bill to extend the Veterans Choice Program at the Oval Office on Wednesday, inviting influential veterans groups to join him.

President Donald Trump welcomed a group of veterans to the White House, kicking off the annual Soldier ride for wounded veterans.

Actor Gary Sinise has been selected to receive the 2017 George Catlett Marshall Medal, the highest award for public service given out by the Council of Trustees of the Association of the United States Army.

Statistics that come as the high-profile court case surrounding Royal Marine sergeant Alex Blackman reaches its conclusion show the disproportionately high level of former servicemen in British jails. Ministry of Justice statistics show that approximately 5 per cent of the

The treatment of veterans in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals is an inexplicable scandal. Now try to focus on this: the federal government, in all its might, is bringing criminal charges against a 74-year-old veteran for hanging an American flag on a fence. A four-by-six-inch flag! On a Veterans Affairs fence! On Memorial Day!

Last week, members of the group Veterans Assisting Veterans (VAV) penned an open letter to “all Americans” criticizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and many of her fellow Democrats for their support of illegal immigrants and calling for these politicians to put United States veterans first.

As a response to Starbucks choosing to hire 10,000 refugees to protest President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban, a veteran and now coffee shop owner has an even better idea. Evan Hafer, an Army Special Forces veteran and CEO of Black Rifle Coffee Company,

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) was asked about U.S. federal funding for the United Nations, which has come under fire by many domestically for a Security Council resolution condemning the nation of

Staff members at a Florida VA hospital left a deceased veteran’s body unattended in the shower area for nine hours and then tried to cover up the mistake, according to a report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Administrative Investigation Board.

About 18 months after its opening, the Lifton Institute for Media Arts and Sciences has trained more than 200 veterans in behind-the-camera filmmaking, with roughly 80 percent going on to get jobs in Hollywood.

Combat historian and bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell, who has written seven books on World War II, among others, recalled some of more than five thousand interviews with World War II veterans throughout the years during his interview Wednesday with Breitbart News Daily Sirius XM host Matt Boyle.

Americans across the country are commemorating the December 7, 1941 attack on the military base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii today – an attack that sunk 12 battleships, obliterated hundreds of aircrafts, killed thousands, and forced the United States into World War II.

Four staff members have resigned from a southeastern Oklahoma VA facility after a veteran was found to have maggots in his wound.

A group of veterans is planning to protest Hampshire College’s decision to remove the U.S. flag from campus Sunday with hundreds of U.S. flags.

Hampshire College has decided not to fly the American flag or any other flag on its campus after a flag was burned the night before Veterans’ Day.

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama marked Veterans Day by saying, “we look to the principles that are more enduring than politics. And some of the best examples are found in the men and women we saluted yesterday, and every

During Friday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) “Politicians come and go, but the service of our veterans is an unbroken chain.” And “far too often in recent years, the stories we hear [from veterans] are ones of struggle.”

ATKINSON, New Hampshire — Republican nominee Donald Trump kicked off his final push for the presidency on Friday in New Hampshire, where a packed audience of about 1,000 gathered to hear their candidate at the Atkinson Country Club. Trump cited

Football’s ruling world body, Fifa, has banned footballers from wearing poppies on their shirts during an England v Scotland match to be played on November 11 – Armistice Day.