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The Veteran Connection

Trent Reedy · August 2, 2019 3:00 am

U.S. Army members carry a folded flag along with the remains of Vietnam War veteran Wayne Wilson during his memorial service at the Silverbrook Cemetery in Niles, Mich. on Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

A family of veterans: Vietnam vets attend funeral of fellow vet who had no close family

Noah Garfinkel · July 18, 2019 3:50 pm

People visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

‘Real America’ inside the Beltway

Salena Zito · June 30, 2019 4:00 am

Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, holds a copy of The Capital Gazette near the scene of a shooting at the newspaper's office, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the building Thursday, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said.

‘Richer for having known them’: Memorial unveiled a year after Capital Gazette shooting

Zach Halaschak · June 28, 2019 9:58 pm

A U.S. Flag rests against the Memorial Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington at daybreak on Memorial Day Monday, May 27, 2019.

Senators fight to add ‘Lost 74’ sailors to Vietnam memorial

Jerry Dunleavy · June 20, 2019 8:30 pm

Philip Holdcraft, left, past commander of Colmar Manor American Legion Post 311, and Mike Moore, right, past commander of the Greenbelt American Legion Post 136. This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the meaning of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial (otherwise known as the Peace Cross) in the The American Legion v. American Humanist Association case. The Peace Cross memorial, located in the three-way junction of Bladensburg Road, Baltimore Avenue, and Annapolis Road in Bladensburg, Maryland, Monday, February 25, 2019. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether the nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state.

Supreme Court lets Peace Cross stand

Melissa Quinn · June 20, 2019 2:18 pm

Beltway Confidential

Visit Civil War battlefields, while you can

Quin Hillyer · May 31, 2019 4:00 am

A soldier with the 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, plays taps during the burial service of retired Army Col. Roger Brown, of Arlington, Va., at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, Aug. 6, 2018.

Our fallen service members, not our presidents or generals, are America’s real heroes

Kevin Carl Petersen · May 27, 2019 4:00 am

This Saturday, May 4, 2019, photo from Honor Flight San Diego shows Frank Manchel.

WWII veteran dies on last leg of Honor Flight

Zach Halaschak · May 10, 2019 2:09 am

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is seen in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018.

America’s long and silent wall

Washington Examiner · May 4, 2019 4:00 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during the opening ceremony of Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israel stands still to remember those lost in the Holocaust

Zach Halaschak · May 2, 2019 9:33 pm

The Peace Cross memorial, located in the three-way junction of Bladensburg Road, Baltimore Avenue, and Annapolis Road in Bladensburg, Maryland, Monday, February 25, 2019. The monument stands 40 foot tall and was built in memory of the 49 men of Prince George's County who died in World War I. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether the nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state.

Beltway Confidential

The Bladensburg Peace Cross is part of our family

alvergia-guyton and mary-laquay · February 26, 2019 1:30 pm