President Donald Trump announced Thursday he wants to rename Veterans Day, a federal holiday on November 11, to “Victory Day ...

The president wants to mark May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II.” This would come as news to my Dad and the millions of fellow U.S. Marines, Allies and civilians who continued to fight island to ...

While the November 11 federal holiday was first created to honor veterans of World War I, it was later changed to honor ...

“I ran into the living room and I said ‘there’s a war, there’s a war on’. I was quite excited,” said Ruth, now 98. “I had no idea of the horror in my mother’s face, because she had been a nurse in the ...

2, 1945, the day Japan signed surrender documents aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as V-J Day ... the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. “Many of our allies ...