Veterans Day news stories on Newser

Garfield Creator Apologizes to Vets for 'Stupid Day' Strip

Rob Quinn — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:35:00 CST

Garfield creator Jim Davis has apologized after accidentally causing an uproar with a Veterans Day comic. The strip—viewable here —shows spiders celebrating "National Stupid Day" in remembrance of a squished colleague. Davis says he wrote the strip nearly a year ago and didn't know it would run yesterday, calling...

Wounded in Myriad Ways, Veterans Still Being Ignored

John Johnson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:52:35 CST

This is how too many of our military veterans are being repaid for their service: In the form of rising suicide and divorces rates, addictions, and domestic violence cases, writes retired Army officer Bob Kinder in the Boston Globe . They're returning from war ill and being deprived of the care...

Best War Movies Ever

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:47 CST

In honor of Veterans Day, the Huffington Post runs down the best war movies of all time: Apocalypse Now: Vietnam War From Here to Eternity: Pearl Harbor Patton: World War II Braveheart: Scotland’s battle for independence Lawrence of Arabia: World War I Band of Brothers: World War II (and, yes,...

Nation Marks Veterans Day

John Johnson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:18:42 CST

The nation honored its war veterans today at services around the country. President Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington, telling vets and their families that "there is no tribute, no commemoration, no praise that can truly match the magnitude of your service and your...

Lack of Health Insurance Kills 2K Veterans a Year

Sarah Quinn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:16:12 CST

Some 2,266 US veterans under 65 died last year because they didn't have health insurance, a team from Harvard Medical School estimates. Although most vets get medical care through the VA, there are about a million and a half, under 65, who were not wounded and are "too poor...

Obama to Honor Veterans During Alaska Visit

Nick McMaster — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:43:00 CST

President Obama will visit Alaska next week for the first time, stopping at Elmendorf Air Force Base to observe Veterans Day with base personnel while Air Force One refuels. Like most recent presidents, Obama will visit Alaska en route to Asia, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The president would like...

Flags at Half-Staff Through Veterans Day: Obama

Harry Kimball — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:55:37 CST

President Obama today ordered that American flags at all federal properties be flown at half-staff until Veterans Day—next Wednesday—to honor the people killed at Fort Hood yesterday. The gesture is “a modest tribute to those who lost their lives even as others were preparing to risk their lives...

Bush, Obama Salute Veterans

Ambreen Ali — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:00:00 CST

Barack Obama joined a disabled veteran of the Iraq war in laying a wreath at a memorial in Chicago today, the Tribune reports, with a few dozen spectators witnessing the president-elect’s long Veterans Day appearance. President Bush, meanwhile, was in New York, WCBS-TV reports, praising military members as part the...

90 Years On, It's Still the War to End All Wars

Jason Farago — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:07:03 CST

Ninety years ago today the Allies and Germany signed the armistice that ended World War I, a conflict of unprecedented brutality and expense. But where today Americans celebrate Veterans Day, a commemoration of wars' survivors, in Europe the mood is "altogether more somber," historian Alexander Watson writes in the New...