There are 22 article(s) tagged Veterans:

• September 2024

  • Memphis VA Medical Center now has lodging for patients’ loved ones

    The Memphis location is the 98th Fisher House built by The Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit that builds the homes at military and VA medical centers around the world.

    By Aisling Mäki September 17, 2024

• July 2024

  • Vietnam memorial coming to Lakeland

    The wall is a three-fifths scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

    By Michael Waddell July 14, 2024

• November 2023

  • Fallen and living veterans honored at Overton Park

    More than 40 people attended and paid their respects to both fallen and living war veterans at the Doughboy Statue in Overton Park’s Veterans Plaza during the Daughters of the American Revolution Veterans Day Ceremony.

    By Kambui Bomani November 12, 2023

• October 2022

  • DeSoto County gives ‘Green Light’ to veteran appreciation effort

    DeSoto County officials are encouraging residents and businesses to participate in Operation Green Light, a program that uses green lighting to show support for veterans.

    By Toni Lepeska October 24, 2022

• September 2022

  • Families of vets will get ‘home away from home’ on VA Medical Center campus

    Fisher House, on the campus of the Memphis VA Medical Center, will provide no-cost accommodations for 16 families or veteran caregivers. The $9 million project is expected to open next fall. 

    By Aisling Mäki September 15, 2022

• August 2022

  • ‘It’s life-changing': Program awards free car to Memphis veteran

    Since the start of the program, more than 130 cars have been awarded to veterans and families across the country.

    By Kofi Whitehead August 01, 2022

• July 2022

  • Conaway: Around here, if you look closely, you’ll find a connection

    “In that wonderful Memphis sort of way of zero degrees of separation from anybody and anything in the rest of the world, I’m related to Teddy Roosevelt.”

    By Dan Conaway July 29, 2022

• March 2022

  • Career fair seeks to help veterans find ‘better days’

    “We chose to come today because veterans need jobs just like any other normal person is looking for a job at any age,” said one human resources administrator.

    By Alicia Davidson March 25, 2022

• January 2022

  • Community honors unclaimed Navy veteran

    Community members gather for a memorial service to recognize the military life of a man they didn’t know.

     

    By Abigail Warren January 18, 2022

• March 2021

  • Couple’s dream to build veteran housing edges closer to reality

    Paul and Debra Brantley started Memphis nonprofit BHW Estate with the goal of building permanent housing for homeless and at-risk veterans.

    By Omer Yusuf March 15, 2021

• February 2021

  • Residence for veterans, seniors would be part of large U.S. network

    Veterans Services (USA) plans to transform the East Memphis Crowne Plaza into a mixed-use development marketed to veterans and other seniors. The organization’s goal is to operate such a facility in all 50 states.

    By Tom Bailey February 28, 2021

  • Plan would convert Crowne Plaza on Thousand Oaks to veteran campus

    The $10 million project is dependent on obtaining approval for changes to the property’s planned development.

    By Tom Bailey February 27, 2021

• May 2020

  • Veterans’ cemeteries ready for Memorial Day visitors

    Memorial Day Weekend is normally one of the busiest times of the year at the 153-year-old Memphis National Cemetery off Jackson Avenue, and 28-year-old West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery on Forest Hill-Irene Road. But like most aspects of current American life, the COVID-19 pandemic made other plans. 

    By Patrick Lantrip May 25, 2020

• January 2020

  • Memphis National Cemetery: Still open, now improved, forever hallowed

    Memphis National Cemetery may be surrounded by obstacles that could keep visitors away, but the park-like burial grounds are undergoing a $10 million upgrade to make it easier to celebrate and pay respects to the heroes buried there.

    By Tom Bailey January 26, 2020

• November 2019

  • Military career gives way to the classroom for one veteran

    Rynae Taylor is finally living out her dream of teaching after a military career. 

    By Dima Amro November 11, 2019

• August 2019

  • County Commission creates parking spots for vets

    The Shelby County Commission created on Monday a program to give veterans designated parking spots.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff August 27, 2019

  • WWII veteran returning to France to visit wartime sweetheart

    Ninety-eight-year-old K.T. Robbins of Olive Branch will return to France next month with Forever Young Senior Veterans. While the other 13 vets, ages 93 to 102, visit Battle of the Bulge sites, Robbins will split off for a second reunion with his wartime sweetheart in France. 

    By Tom Bailey August 26, 2019

  • Hundreds honor shrinking group of WW II veterans

    As the Battle of the Bulge 75th anniversary approaches, a Memphis veteran recalls the ingenious technique soldiers used to keep their socks dry in the snow and ice. 

    By Tom Bailey August 11, 2019

• June 2019

  • Two indictments charge disbarred attorney with 67 felony violations

    A federal grand jury has returned two indictments against disbarred Memphis attorney Keith L. Dobbs, charging him with 67 felony violations for misappropriating funds from 26 recipients of veterans benefits and nine Social Security recipients.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff June 19, 2019

  • France swoons over love story linked to Olive Branch

    Enterprising French journalists reunited an elderly Olive Branch man with his long-lost love from World War II, and the story spread across Europe. 

    By Tom Bailey June 19, 2019

• March 2019

  • Piano recital chronicles the history of music as therapy for soldiers

    Michigan-based pianist and lecturer Dr. Garik Pederson traveled to Memphis on Saturday to tell the story of a piano made specifically for recreation during World War II.

    By Jared Boyd March 03, 2019

• January 2019

  • GALLERY: Hundreds pay respects at service for unclaimed veterans

    A funeral service attended by hundreds who wanted to pay their respects for three unclaimed veterans from the Memphis area was held at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery.

    By Karen Pulfer Focht January 18, 2019