The organization that provides military funerals in Colorado is sounding an alarm. The All Veterans Honor Guard says unless it can attract more volunteers it will dissolve and thousands of veterans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing numbers of Vietnam veterans are being laid to rest in recent years, and in many cases their families are attending ...

When Michelle Ray sits in her rocking chair in her West Jefferson living room, she feels her late husband Tom Ray all around her. She feels him in the framed, folded American flag Army servicemembers ...

On the rolling green hills of Arlington National Cemetery, a group of volunteers makes sure no service member is laid to rest ...

Soldiers of the New York National Guard honor guard carry the remains of 1st Lt. John Thomas, a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot who was killed in action during World War II in 1943, to his final resting ...

Lt. Col. Thomas Carroll stands before Pvt. Warren DaVault's casket during DaVault's funeral in Dayton, Tennessee. The remains of DaVault, a World War II soldier who was killed in action during the ...

Some recent military funerals in the region are not including full military honors because of the federal government shutdown that began last week. Jerome Feltis, a licensed funeral director at ...

Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...

Illinois Public Act 104-78 amended the Family Military Leave Act to provide paid leave for eligible employees who participate in military funeral honors detail. The Family Military Leave Act was also ...

“I don’t recall that ever happening,” said Jerome Feltis, a funeral director at Gregory J. Norman Funeral Chapel in Grand Forks. In this 2012 Herald file photo, personnel at the Grand Forks Air Force ...