Veterans Village of San Diego kicked off its annual event to support unhoused and at-risk veterans called Stand Down, this year at Liberty Station.
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The Trump administration is aiming for continuity in Asia policy, sticking broadly with the approach its predecessors have taken by emphasizing diplomacy and cooperation with allies, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday. -
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery hosted a Memorial Day ceremony that drew several hundred people Monday. -
The purpose of the meeting, which will take place Saturday, is to discuss details of a bill that could allow some of the deported veterans return to the United States. -
KPBS Midday EditionThere is a shortage of musicians in the armed forces to play taps at military funerals. So funeral honor guards have increasingly used pre-recorded versions, often played through a speaker that fits inside a regular bugle. -
The San Diego Padres will mark Memorial Day by hosting Gold Star families who lost a relative during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. -
A San Diego-based U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down over Vietnam more than 50 years ago was given a full military at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. -
Memorial Day can be especially difficult for relatives of service members who died by suicide. They often feel stigmatized, even around other military families. -
The Pentagon did not ramp up ship building in its 2018 budget proposal to Congress, meaning at least a delay in the Trump's plan to expand the Navy beyond what was proposed in the Obama administration. -
More than half a century ago, Deborah Crosby was sent home from the first grade to find military officers in her living room and her mother distraught: Her father's Navy plane had been shot down in northern Vietnam, and he was presumed dead, though his body had not been found.
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The national cemetery is holding an open house over the weekend to give veterans a chance to see the location, which originally opened as a replacement for Fort Rosecrans in 2010.
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