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 [...]

Miss New York State Alyse Zwick and state Assemblywoman Amy Paulin will meet with southern Westchester veterans on Monday (July 20) to urge Gov. Paterson to sign a bill that would increase property tax exemptions for Cold War veterans and extend the property tax break to Cold Warriors who live in co-operative apartment buildings.

The meeting [...]

I joined the Army in 1976 – the first year of the “all volunteer” military following the end of the draft. A lot of women did too, in record numbers, and it quickly became obvious that changes had to be made.

Back then, sexist remarks and worse were pretty common and NCOs tended to spend more [...]

Fifty years ago this week, U.S. Army Maj. Dale Buis and Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand were in the mess hall watching a movie when “terrorists’’ attacked their compound in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, killing them both and making them the first casualties in what became the Vietnam War.

“It was a minor incident in a faraway place,’’ [...]

The number of homeless female U.S. veterans has doubled during the last decade, according to a report in the Boston Globe.

Our friends at the VA told the newspaper that as more women serve in combat zones, the share of female veterans who end up homeless, while still relatively small at an estimated 6,500, has nearly [...]