Westchester County veterans not registered for medical benefits can do so Thursday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the county Veterans Service Agency, 112 E. Post Road in White Plains.

Former service members can also obtain the new anti-ID theft veterans identification cards, which help streamline benefit services. Make sure to bring your discharge papers [...]

A color guard from Pelham’s American Legion Post 50 joined New York State America Legion Commander William Kearsing and Fang Wang, former national vice commander on the CBS Early Show last week in a runup to Veterans Day.

The group appeared in the GM Building Plaza with Early Show co-hosts Harry Smith and Maggie Rodreguez. Color [...]

The South Side Inn on Route 6N in Mahopac is hosting a “Support the Troops Night” Saturday.

Bring in socks, T-shirts, non-perishable snacks and other goodies between 4 and 8 p.m. and enjoy a free hot buffet and live music while you’re there. All donated items will be shipped to service members overseas.

Simultaneous fund raising events for Tower of Hope, an organization that teams veterans with severe physical and/or psychological disabilities with specially-trained service dogs are being held Wednesday at the Pocantico Hills home of Jeff and Pat Joseph and in Pound Ridge at the home of Dr. Emer Leahy and her husband, Donald Perun.

Founded by Sleepy [...]

The Vietnam Wall Diginity Memorial, a traveling replica of the Vietnam War Memorial located on the mall in Washington, D.C. comes to Yonkers next week for Veterans Day.

Scheduled to arrive Tuesday with a police motorcycle escort, the wall will be set up at Fleming Field and officially open to the public on Wednesday in a [...]

The Medal of Honor display at Mount Pleasant Town Hall will be completed Saturday (Nov. 7) when Rep. Nita Lowey presents the American Legion Medal of Honor Committee with the U.S. Navy’s version of the nation’s highest honor.

Pete Fiumefreddo, commander of the Hawthorne American Legion post and the driving force behind establishment of the display [...]

New York National Guard Capt. Robert Zizolfo will be guest speaker at Pelham American Legion Post 50’s annual Veterans Week dinner-dance Friday evening at the Davenport Club in New Rochelle.

Capt. Zizolfo is base operations officer for the Guard’s training site at Camp Smith. He spent two years in Iraq as commander of the 145th Maintenance [...]

The Central Committee for Veterans Affairs of Mount Vernon will hold a
rededication ceremony on Saturday Oct. 24 for the Anthony T. Fava Veteran’s
Memorial Park.
The 2 p.m. event at the intersection of Mount Vernon, Stevens and West
Lincoln avenues will raise awareness for a rehabilitation of the park that
the veterans group would like to undertake.
A cocktail reception [...]

While the national debate over health care insurance and public options rages on, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Sunday ran a story about Bill Caudle, who was laid off from his job at a plastics company in March.

Caudle, 39, started Army basic training earlier this month in Fort Jackson, S.C. It wasn’t patriotic fervor that [...]

A local health club will hold a “Spin for Soldiers” fundraising event Sunday to support an organization that provides service dogs to veterans injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The event will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the New York Sports Club, 420 S. Riverside Ave. in Croton-on-Hudson.
The public is invited to meet [...]

The Army National Guard’s 101 Signal Battalion, based in Yonkers,  will welcome Lt. Col. Greg Dreisbach as its new commander Saturday at a ceremony in Fort Dix, N.J. during a training weekend.

Dreisbach, an Iraq War veteran, also currently commands the New York National Guard’s security assistance task force in New York City.

He served as an [...]

Veterans can meet with private and government employers, benefit advisors, state and county service organizations and other employment counselors on Friday, Oct. 9 at a job fair being held at the Veterans Administration’s Castle Point Campus.

Information on job opportunities, resume writing tips, benefits, housing, education, claims and more will be available. Make sure to bring [...]

Officials from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund estimate that 40 percent of those who visit The Wall in Washington, D.C. are too young to remember the war or any of the more than 58,000 people whose names appear on the memorial.

To keep the memories alive, an $85 million learning center is being build underground at [...]

The American Red Cross in Westchester County is teaming up with Four Winds Hospital to provide a support group for families of deployed military personnel, returning service members and those returning to civilian life to share their common concerns.

The Iraq/Afghanistan War Family and Military Support Group will hold its first meeting at 7 p.m.  Monday [...]

In his first piece of legislation as U.S. Senator from Minnesota, former comedian Al Franken is asking congress to create a pilot program to provide service dogs for injured veterans.

I’ve written about these amazing dogs before and have seen first hand how they can help wounded soldiers, amputees and those who are paralized cope with [...]