Undeterred, Scott-Skinner turned to Facebook, where someone sent her a military document showing that his medals were issued to his foster mother, Bertha Seaman in Pictou County. He had listed her as ...

DECATUR - Ahead of Veterans Day, Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced he has returned a Purple Heart medal ...

An Illinois woman was reunited with her late father's Purple Heart from WWII just in time for Veterans Day. U.S. Marine Corps ...

James Peyton tells ABC15 he was injured multiple times in combat - in one incident, he explains he had to remove shrapnel from his own chest and had no other choice.

The state of Illinois has returned a Purple Heart medal to the daughter of a Marine who was wounded in the invasion of Saipan ...

This fall, with help from Maine's Sen. Susan Collins' office, the Army verified that Elmer Wright was entitled to another five medals. "PFC Elmer Gay Wright gave his life for the United States during ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A highway in Wyoming County will be renamed after a fallen World War II veteran. State Route 19 in the Town of Gainesville will be renamed 'T Sgt. Walter W. Shearing Memorial Highway.' ...

Veteran Day 2024 is November 11. See photos of famous celebrities who served in the U.S. military over the years.

Hidden histories come to life in this sprawling show, which includes photos, films and interactive touch-screen oral ...

The Navy on Saturday commissioned the USS John Basilone, its latest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, named in ...

Good morning, Chicago. Wounded in the shoulder and ordered to retire from combat, Pfc. Delbert Tuttle refused to leave his fellow U.S. Marines as his unit invaded the Japanese-held island of Saipan ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WSIL) -- A Purple Heart was returned to the family of a late World War II Marine in Illinois. The Illinois ...