Italian Army veteran, 81, serenades wife at hospital window due to Covid rules
Stefano Bozzini, an Italian army veteran, serenaded his wife at her hospital window to show his support, despite not being able to visit her due to local coronavirus restrictions.(watch the video) This story deserved to have a happy ending—but, tragically, it wasn’t to be. Earlier this month, footage of Stefano Bozzini serenading wife Carla from […]
How Kirkcaldy became a new home for Polish war veterans
The Polish Club in Kirkcaldy, Fife, has been a centre of social and cultural life for almost 70 years. It was founded by veterans who were unable to return home after fighting in World War Two. The club still provides an extended family to the children and grandchildren of those soldiers – along with a […]
Soldiers on motorcycles visit the graves of 120 Poles who died and died during international missions
In Poland, as the Veterans Day of 29 May approach the column of 23 motorcyclists – soldiers started the Veterans Motorcycle Rally to honor their colleagues who fell on missions The group went to the cemetery in Szczecin-Dąbie, where they prayed over the grave of Corporal Szymon Graczyk who died during his mission in Afghanistan […]
‘Ayla: The Daughter of War’
The touching real-life tale of a Turkish sergeant who saves a small Korean girl becomes long, heart-tugging fiction in Ayla: The Daughter of War, directed by Can Ulkay. The story is well-known both in South Korea and in Turkey, and was told in the 2010 South Korean doc Kore Ayla, which inspired the present film. A documentary feeling still […]
US Job market remains stable for veterans as pandemic restrictions linger
As the United States ended its first full year under business restrictions of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, veterans’ unemployment rates remained largely stable last month, with slight improvements in job prospects among young veterans.The unemployment rate for all veterans in April was 5.2 percent, just above the 5.0 percent reported by the Bureau of […]
Former POWs are now fighting for their captor’s citizenship
On Nov. 15, 2012, five men sat down for dinner at Ted’s Montana Grill in Crystal City, Virginia. Dressed in shirts and ties, they could’ve easily passed for old friends or business partners, reminiscing on days past. Their friendly conversation gave no hint to the fact that just two decades earlier, three of these men […]
The Story of a 100-Year Old Army Veteran
James Chapman, an army veteran who served during World War II in the South Pacific has just turned 100. During his military service and aftermath, he experienced the trauma, witnessed many tragedies, and went through numerous challenges of life. Continue reading…
WWII veteran wants to be buried in Navy uniform, so she made one
A 96-year-old veteran, Joseph Hall, lives alone. His wife passed away three years ago, and all of his former crew mates are gone. He turns 97 in March and has nobody to celebrate with. He is the last. He has one final wish… to be buried in his original U.S. Navy uniform that he wore […]
Women veterans, students would see expanded services and benefits under the new law
On Tuesday (Jan 5th, 2021), President Donald Trump signed into law a comprehensive policy measure, the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020, to protect women veterans, student veterans and the veterans struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic.
French teens, WWII veterans swap stories of life in lockdown during Covid-19
Students in France have been writing to British military veterans who took part in the Normandy invasion that freed the country from the Nazis. The letters come as a comfort to those living in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. As VE Day approached, Marion and her classmates in the Normandy region thought of 94-year-old Bill Ridgewell […]