veteran markers memorialize soldiers on Memorial Day - Gwinnett Daily Post
25 May 2012, 3:36 pm
DULUTH -- Two decades ago, former Duluth City Council member and Korean War veteran O.J. Howell, Jr. traveled to Huntsville, Ala., during Memorial Day weekend and saw that its city remembered the fallen soldiers by publicly displaying the names ...

A veteran Stabilizes the Young Sixers - New York Times Blogs
25 May 2012, 2:31 pm
The 76ers will look to extend their remarkable post-season run on Saturday when they take on the Celtics in Game 7 in Boston. Having already defeated the No. 1-seeded Bulls, Philadelphia hopes to continue beating the odds. Awaiting the Sixers ...

veteran Reporter Steve Wilson Joins WJXX-WTLV - Mediabistro.com
25 May 2012, 1:20 pm
veteran investigative reporter Steve Wilson, who spent nearly a decade with Detroit’s WXYZ before leaving in 2010 after his contract was not renewed, is returning to TV with WJXX-WTLV in Jacksonville. WXYZ reporter Ross Jones announced the move this week ...

Government Asks Much of Local veteran Organizations - Examiner
25 May 2012, 12:15 pm
St. Augustine, Fla.– What can we do to help? A recent request made by two employees of St. Johns County government is at least timely enough to be a real “heads-up,” if not extremely premature. Lt. Ryan Timoney, a resident of St. Johns ...

veteran Tribute Ride Saturday - Daily News
25 May 2012, 11:54 am
IRON MOUNTAIN - The eighth annual veteran Tribute Ride is scheduled for Saturday. In years past, between 200 and 400 motorcyclists participated in this ride to honor all veterans. All riders are welcome. The ride starts at the Riverside Auto Sales on North ...

Give Thanks to a veteran on Memorial Day - Albany Times Union (blog)
25 May 2012, 11:54 am
The movies and television romanticize, in many ways, the experiences of men and women who serve our country in the armed forces. The daring cowboy-like gunslinger or the fearless yet, crafty unit commander is characterized as enjoying the dangers of combat ...

veteran Urges Popular College Rankings To Include veteran Friendly Statistics - Huffington Post
23 May 2012, 3:59 pm
WASHINGTON -- With the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, veterans became a prime target of for-profit colleges hoping to cash in on the new windfall of federal education dollars. While the schools largely succeeded, netting an outsized chunk of ...

veteran Elias a vital cog in the machine - ESPN
23 May 2012, 12:32 pm
NEWARK, N.J. -- He is 36 years old and still among the last of the New Jersey Devils to come in from the morning skate. Even though Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals looms a few hours in the distance, Patrik Elias is enjoying watching the ...

veteran fights VA to keep PTSD diagnosis - msnbc.com
22 May 2012, 11:57 am
Sometimes the terror strikes Daniel Hibbard, a 29-year-old Army veteran of the Afghanistan war, when he's driving and a song comes on the radio that he used to listen to while on patrol. "I'll be thinking and thinking and visualizing being back ...

Iraq war veteran fights to keep license plates Virginia deems offensive to Arabs - FOX News
21 May 2012, 11:26 pm
In what is being disputed as a matter of taste over a matter of law, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles revoked a former U.S. Army sergeant’s choice of vanity license plate letters, saying that the seven-letter series "ICUHAJI" is an ...