History can inform us, but we are always on future’s doorstep. Gene is a retired lawyer, former history professor, occasional journalist. Contact him at geezerdesk@gmail.com.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. ( KYTV /Gray News) - More than 16 million Americans fought in World War II. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, only 66,000 of them are still alive. One of those is ...

Every other developed nation already ensures universal access, and the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, while flawed and inefficient, has brought the United States closer to that goal.

“After 80 years, this great soldier has come home to rest,” Darrigan’s great niece, Susan Pineiro, told mourners at his ...

Iowa's Department of Veteran's Affairs celebrated Memorial Day in Central Iowa at the state's Veteranscemetery.Hundreds came out to honor and remember those wh ...

Miller, who had begged his widowed mother to let him enlist in the Navy after graduating from East Aurora High School at age ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...

Shortly after 2 p.m. on Oct. 7, 1943, a twin-engine Army bomber disintegrated in the air over San Bernardino. It ripped ...

Veterans, families, and community members gathered at Llano Cemetery and the Texas Panhandle War Memorial to honor the fallen ...

A World War II soldier from Gravette who was killed during the D-Day invasion in Normandy will be buried next month, Governor ...

U.S. Army Pvt. James Gilbert Loterbaugh, an Ohio native, was a crew member on an M4 “Sherman” tank in Germany in 1944.

“So out here, the Governor of Colorado was one of the more friendlier governors at the time in welcoming the Asian Americans ...