Veterans Day is important in the Pikes Peak region. We devote much time and attention to giving honor where it is due. As we should. This is a military oriented region with about 45,000 active-duty ...

Video above: Happening now, the Veterans Day Observance at the World War II Memorial. WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKRG) — The national Veterans Day Observance, held every year at the World War II Memorial in ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — A soldier plants his boot in the sand. The infantryman is ...

World War II was nearing its end in March 1945 when Russell Sattazahn found himself taking cover from enemy fire with other GIs in the basement of a German house. At first they felt protected, but the ...

For many veterans, experiencing a war together creates a special bond, but eight decades after World War II, two veterans are just starting to form their own. WCCO's John Lauritsen shares the story of ...

Each year on Nov. 11 we celebrate Veterans Day, originally called “Armistice Day” commemorating the truce signed between the Allies and Germany in 1918. At the time, the war was known as “The Great ...

With Dec. 7 marking the 84th anniversary and with so few veterans who witnessed that awful day first-hand remaining, the attack on Pearl Harbor seems like a moment fading into history with each ...

Veterans Day Parade participants wave to the crowd from a World War II Jeep on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. Thousands of area veterans were honored Saturday morning during Lawrence’s Veterans Day Parade.

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest Generation are still alive. But when Schrenk, 102, and Bukowski, 101, met ...