COLONIE -- Army investigators keep changing their stories about the circumstances of Staff Sgt Amy Seyboth Tirador's death in Iraq, and may be trying to cover up what really happened, Tirador's mother alleged Thursday, three months to the day after her daughter was shot.Tirador's …
Mike Whitney---President Barack Obama recently visited Dover Air Force Base where he was photographed with the flag-draped coffins of soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why did Obama do this and what was your reaction?
IRVONA - Roger and Sharon Kritzer have been organizing Project Santa since their son, Bradley, was killed in action in Iraq in May 2005, and this year has been one of their most successful shipments. "With the help of many area folks, schools, churches, organizations and busines …
CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier traveled with Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, through Kandahar and Helmand Provinces in Afghanistan. She filed this dispatch after landing in Basra, Iraq — her first trip back since Memorial Day 2006...
This edition of the article discusses growth of the USA KIA/DOW Family Foundation (USAKIA) to best serve families of those killed in action (KIA) and died of wounds (DOW) for the USA, Americans left behind when loved ones get killed in combat.
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KABUL (Nov 23) — Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Barack Obama convened his war council again Monday to fine-tune a strategy to respond to the intransigent violence.
(October 6) - The flag-draped coffins of five U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan arrived Tuesday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the military said.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents besieged two American outposts in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, American and Afghan officials said, killing eight Americans and two Afghan policemen in a bold daylight strike that was the deadliest for American soldiers in more than a year.The …
As of Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, at least 769 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.
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Hotaru Ferschke just wants to raise her 8-month-old son in his grandparents' Tennessee home, surrounded by photos and memories of the father he'll never meet: a Marine who died in combat a month after marrying her from thousands of miles away.
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Remember Fallen Vines has not initiated any private discussions.