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November 10, 2015
For World War II veteran Johnnie Hodges, Sr., being able to repurchase his home after having been evicted in July…
October 27, 2015
When 36-year-old Carlos Martin saw the now viral video of a high school police officer manhandling a student in a…
September 3, 2015
The Black Lives Matter movement "promotes racism," according to one African-American marine whose video on the topic has gone viral.
August 22, 2015
REPORT - Kevin Downing, a retired U.S. Army Reserves captain, was upset at being fired by the U.S. Department of…
August 18, 2015
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 93-year-old veteran who was part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen was the victim of crimes…
August 18, 2015
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan (AP) — A woman who was believed to be the oldest U.S. veteran at 110 has died,…
July 19, 2015
theGrio - On Friday, President Obama met with the 110-year-old Emma Didlake, who is the oldest living U.S. veteran.
May 6, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Richard Overton, take a bow. Overton, the oldest living World War II vet, celebrated his 109th birthday…
March 27, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - In 2010, Alicia Watkins appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to tell her story. The 10-year veteran…
August 1, 2014
VIDEO - One national organization is paying it forward, and granting a deserving Jacksonville, Florida mother the gift of a…
July 16, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Vietnam veteran Michael Sulsona was visiting a Staten Island Lowe's when his wheelchair broke shortly before closing...
November 8, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Richard Overton was honored with a standing ovation and a box of cigars Thursday for being America’s…
October 22, 2013
CINCINNATI (AP) — Officials at a cemetery that removed a slain Iraq war veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone from her…
October 7, 2013
TODAY - Linny Boyette, but he was perhaps better known as TODAY's superfan, has passed away at the age of…
May 20, 2013
NBC Philadelphia - A Vietnam War veteran, confined to a wheelchair, was attacked by a group of armed masked men…
August 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - America’s oldest Tuskegee airman has finally been honored seven decades after he fought in World War II...
July 30, 2012
VIDEO - A 63-year-old veteran was attacked and stabbed by a group of women around 6.am Sunday on a Manhattan…
July 5, 2012
Perhaps it's fitting that on the week we celebrate our nation's birth, a former soldier -- now homeless -- showed…
June 22, 2012
VIDEO - Kari Miller is a United States military veteran, who was hit by a drunk driver and lost both…
February 3, 2012
VIDEO - A Florida veteran is in a battle with the federal government to prove that he is alive...