Veterans Day

A bracelet honoring Sgt. Larry Welsh of Kansas City, Kansas, who has been missing in action since the Vietnam War.

Remembering The Lost in Vietnam

People across the country still wear bracelets to remember prisoners of war and service members missing in action during the Vietnam War.

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Soldiers heading out on a search and destroy mission during the Vietnam War.

One War Leads to Another

A new exhibit, “The Vietnam War: 1945-1975,” opens at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City on Nov. 8 and runs through next May.

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Dave Damico rings liberty bell at veterans day celebration

All In The Family

Dave Damico has fond memories of talking baseball with his grandfather while growing up in Grandview, Missouri, just south of Kansas City. But one subject Damico’s grandfather rarely discussed — save for mention of fleas and lice — was his time in the trenches as a regimental-supply sergeant during World War I. Nor does Damico…

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A man and woman standing on their farm.

These Colorado Veterans Are Finding Peace On The Farm

Ben and Leticia Ward’s farm in Fountain, Colorado, just outside Colorado Springs, doesn’t look like an army base. But it’s not hard to uncover whiffs of military influence at Little Roman Farm. A stack of sturdy fiberglass bins next to a greenhouse seem benign, ready to be put to use as brooding bins for chickens…

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Nick Sanford with his youth football players

Healing the Invisible Wounds of Combat

It’s the serviceman who beats himself up about being unable to save a dying buddy. Or the truck driver who follows orders to run over children in the road, because they might be placed there to facilitate an ambush of a convoy. While it has been more than half a century since the United States…

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