Full List of VA Grants Providing $77M to State Veterans Cemeteries The fiscal year 2025 grants include the establishing of Alaska's first veterans cemetery.
What Happens When a Veteran Dies With Incorrect Next of Kin on File When a veteran dies, the government relies solely on the next of kin and beneficiary information on file. If that information...
Resting Side by Side: How the VA Honors and Supports Families in National Cemeteries Military benefits often extend beyond the veteran alone. One of the ways the nation recognizes the sacrifice is by ensuring...
When You Die, VA Will Provide a Free Grave Marker The VA provides headstones and markers for the graves of veterans anywhere in the world.
Veterans Can Now Tell Their Own Stories on the VA's Veterans Memorial Website The website features the names of millions of veterans buried in VA cemeteries and military-run sites, as well as those...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
Troops Will Miss Paychecks Next Week Without Action on the Government Shutdown The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families, because those in uniform...
