Dozens of people gathered at the Vietnam Memorial Fountain on Church Green in Taunton on Sunday afternoon for the 43rd ...

For over a century, a south London factory has employed former military personnel to make Remembrance Poppies, and as part of VE Day 80, they will have a free open afternoon. The factory is based in ...

Department of Veterans Affairs employees and veterans fired from other agencies as part of the Trump administration's slashing of federal jobs would be reinstated with full back pay and benefits ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to cut 83,000 jobs, slashing employment by over 17% at the federal agency that provides health care for millions of veterans, according to an ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

More than £25,000 has been raised in memory of a 10-year-old girl killed when a car crashed on to a pitch where she was playing football. Poppy Atkinson was attending a training session at Kendal ...

Malacañang announced on Monday the designation of Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary for Special Concerns Paul Joseph V. Mercado as the officer-in ...

Last Memorial Day weekend, I was saddened to see one veteran outside of Trader Joe's, offering poppies to passers by for any donation. It bothered me that many people hardly gave him a second look, ...

The Royal British Legion has turned to the strong stuff to fire up this year's annual Poppy appeal. For the first time in its 80-year history, the ex-servicemen's charity is marketing its own ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an argument by two veterans that the Department of Veterans Affairs had a duty to grant their claims for post-traumatic stress disorder when the ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a new commemorative display of ceramic poppies will be installed at the heart of the Tower of London. Nearly 30,000 of the original ...

In filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Starship Troopers, military service guarantees citizenship in a futuristic — and fascist — regime. The policy is simple: Join the war on the alien ...