Last week, we sent out 100 Welcome Home Boxes to Vietnam Veterans for our Vietnam Veterans Day Recognition. Next week, we plan to send out 75 more boxes to veterans. If you know of any organization or business that would like to contribute to these second round of boxes, please contact us!

Todd’s note: April Fool’s Day is terrible for exceedingly gullible people like me. My wife tricks me every year. But I must admit the day has a fascinating history, stretching back at least to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), which made reference to the date March 32nd as a day of tricks. There’s also the

The last three iterations, left to right, of the USAF uniform (U.S. Air Force photo / Airman 1st Class Spencer Tobler) Yesterday, the Air Force bid adieu to the ABU, the Airman Battle Uniform, which was first introduced in 2007. The ABUs were “about as stylish as a fat collar

Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. “Death, like a great eagle, flew over Vietnam and picked out its prey. What a waste.” - Jo Vabolis, journalist Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. USAF Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr., is recognized as the first American serviceman killed

By Todd DePastino Thirty-two years ago, Congress designated March 25 as "Medal of Honor Day" to recognize those who have earned the highest decoration for valor in the US military. On this day in 1863, Union Pvt. Jacob Parrott received the first award for stealing a Confederate locomotive and boxcars from a Georgia