Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May to honor fallen U.S. service members. Originally known as Decoration Day, it began as early as 1868 through the Grand Army of the ...

A stargazer managed to capture an incredible video of Saturn emerging from behind the Moon. "I was filming the crescent Moon ...

Marking 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe, dozens gathered Thursday at the National World War II Memorial to ...

It differs from Veterans Day, which honors all who have served in ... for our country following the publication of the wartime poem 'In Flanders Fields.' The poem was written by Lt.

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Mr Haddock said his commanding officer – Max Aitken, the son of the wartime aircraft production minister Lord Beaverbrook, got into a water dinghy and “launched” himself into the airfield’s static ...

North East veterans has become one of 13 partially sighted former service men and women to have their VE day memories brought to life.

A STOURBRIDGE man aged 102 is among thirteen partially sighted or blind veterans have had their memories of VE Day brought to life to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in ...

Among the veterans’ memories of VE Day were humorous drunken tales ... known for his artwork interpreting one of Wilfred Owen’s war poems, who said he “jumped at the chance” to get ...