Atlanta veterans step closer to Vietnam War Memorial in Piedmont Park

The group Sons of Atlanta has been working to get the memorial built near the 14th Street entrance to Piedmont Park since 2015.

Atlanta Braves honor Gold Star families as Acuña faces season-ending surgery

Ronald Acuna Jr. will not forget his Sunday in Pittsburgh anytime soon and neither will Atlanta Braves fans after the star player tore his ACL.

Daniel Perry trial: Gov. Abbott issues full pardon, restoration of civil rights

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a full pardon to Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted last April of murdering Black Lives Matter protestor Garrett Foster.

Congress honors deceased Korean War hero from Georgia with lying in honor ceremony

Congress gave one of its highest final tributes on Monday — a lying in honor ceremony at the Capitol — to Ralph Puckett Jr., who led an outnumbered company in battle during the Korean War and was the last surviving veteran of that war to receive the Medal of Honor.

John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife sliced off his manhood, loses toes due to toxic water at Camp Lejeune

John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife Lorena Bobbitt infamously chopped off his penis with a kitchen knife in 1993, has lost all of his toes due to side effects from an illness he claims he sustained while based at Camp Lejeune in the 1980s.

Lost Georgia veteran with dementia dies after officer body slams him

When Carl Grant, a Georgia veteran with dementia, woke up in the hospital and couldn't move, he thought he had been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He had no idea just two hours before he had been body-slammed by an officer in Alabama. Now, he's dead.

Veteran dies in jail custody: Mother demands answers from DeKalb County Jail, VA hospital

A Houston mother says the DeKalb County Jail and the VA hospital failed her family after her son, a veteran, died while in the custody of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office.

Emergency response times rise due to EMT, paramedic shortage

There continues to be a shortage of paramedics and EMTs across the country, leading to longer response times to emergencies.

Griffin Vietnam Vet owes $120K for benefits wrongly received. He's not the only one

Thousands of military veterans start the new year with an old worry: where will they find the money to return disability benefits wrongly paid to them over the years?