Editor's note: This essay is excerpted from the book "Black Women in WWII: Greatness Under Fire." Segregation, which was the prevailing policy of the military and much of America in 1941, ...
On Dec. 20, World War II Army nurse veteran Regina Benson celebrated her 105th birthday, according to a Friends of the National World War II Memorial press release. Born on Dec. 20, 1919 in ...
AUSTIN Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is proud to introduce the next installment of the series highlighting the VLB’s Voices of Veterans oral history program. In this special episode, ...
ATLANTA - Donna Rowe's Vietnam scrapbooks are more than a half-century old, and the Kennesaw, Georgia, nurse turned realtor is 80 now. However, her Vietnam War experience is still a big part of Rowe's ...
For 50 years they gathered dust in the basement — the scrapbooks, old photos and news clippings, honors and citations. The uniform and boonie hat remained at the back of a closet. But thanks to the ...
Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's sweep of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts within the U.S.