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Vet who leg pressed 800 pounds on Insta admits to VA disability theft
Adams, 50, pleaded guilty July 25 to theft of government funds after he admitted to stealing $106,245 in VA payments.
By Jon Simkins
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Book excerpt: ‘No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War 1945-1975, Volume 2’
"No Wider War" is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon.
By Sergio Miller
US government launches campaign to reduce high suicide rates, particularly among veterans
The federal government launched a broad national campaign Tuesday aimed at reducing high suicide rates, urging the public to reach out to others, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, and acknowledge daily stresses in people's lives.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918′s deadly flu
Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus. Within 72 hours of the parade, all the hospital beds in Philadelphia were full of flu patients.
Hail, Lafayette!
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, had returned to America to ‘see for himself the fruit borne on the tree of liberty.’
By Ronald H. Bailey, HistoryNet.com
Mutiny on the Amistad: ‘All we want is make us free.’
On Aug. 26, 1839, the Navy brig Washington seized the Spanish slaver Amistad near Montauk Point, New York, sparking one of the most important anti-slavery cases in American history.
By Dr. Howard Jones, American History Magazine