Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Frederick Pokorney Jr., the first Marine killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
The National Cemetery Administration has added nearly 5 million pages of Veterans interred in private and other non-VA cemeteries who received a NCA-provided headstone, marker or medallion, bringing the VLM total to nearly 10 million Veteran pages.
VA National Cemeteries and Carry the Load will hold a National Day of Service on Sep. 9 marking the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Gregory Rund, who survived the 1999 Columbine School shooting but was killed in 2004 in Al Anbar Province. He is buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery.
Employees and VA facilities were recognized for their exceptional customer experience during the Customer Experience Symposium, Sept. 13-14.
This year, National Wreaths Across America Day is on Sat. Dec. 16, and will take place at more than 4,200 participating locations across the country. This total, which includes Arlington National Cemetery, is more than 500 above last year’s total.
More than 300 volunteers worked in teams to clean every headstone at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery as part of National Day of Service.
Suicide prevention motorcycle ride started at Oklahoma City VA and traveled along Route 66 to the Fort Gibson National Cemetery for a remembrance ceremony.
Seventy-seven years after he died in a kamikaze attack and was lost at sea, Joseph West’s family members honored him with a memorial headstone at Fort Gibson National Cemetery in Oklahoma.
Financial Literacy Month provides an opportunity to get caught up on often overlooked end-of-life planning. VA offers programs to assist with end-of-life planning and help ease the burden on family members when a Veteran passes.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Juan Solorio, a career soldier who deployed to Japan, Thailand, Haiti, Egypt, before he was was killed in combat operations near Mosul, Iraq. He is buried at Dallas/Ft. Worth National Cemetery.
Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Kathleen Bruyere, who was Time Magazine’s Women of the Year in 1975.