Although Veterans Day is a national holiday, often filled with parades and celebrations, it brings with it ambiguity. Howard Zinn, a World War II veteran, once wrote, “I do not want the ...

I have been a life member of the Ebensburg VFW Auxiliary Post 4963 for almost six years and got my inspiration for this poem from visiting the residents of the Hollidaysburg Veterans Home.

North's Carolina new poet laureate has written a poem to honor Veterans Day.

Gretchen Marquette has written several poems about the complicated feelings she has about her brother fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

With Veteran's Day approaching, Berger, who grew up in northeast Pennsylvania, but now lives in New Jersey, sent Action News his poem "The Veteran." ...

Dear Cortland: Thank you for granting me permission to use excerpts from your poem. Today is Veterans Day, and I am sure it will strike a responsive chord with all who read it.

Friday is Veterans Day in the U.S., an official holiday honoring Americans who served in the military on the anniversary of the World War I armistice with Germany on Nov. 11, 1918. This year it ...

Fifth-grade students at Troutville Elementary School worked collaboratively to create two poems that convey the historical facts and importance of Veterans Day. The children will be reading these ...

Memorial Day emerged from the Civil War as a celebration almost exclusively for veterans of the Union Army to remember those who had died. Thus, it remains fraught with conflict ...

Memorial Day, a national holiday to honor the 1.17 million men and women who have died to create and maintain the freedoms outlined in our Constitution, is not the only Memorial Day.

The poppies refer to a classic wartime poem titled “In Flanders Field,” by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it after a friend died during the Second ...