WWI vet, recently honored, dies at 111
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Ernest Charles Pusey, one of the nation's longest living World War I veterans, died a little over a week after he was honored with a medal for his service to the country, family members said. He was 111.
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With the number of Americans killed in Iraq over 1,000, the latest soldier from Indiana to die in the conflict will be buried on Friday.
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By Kasie Hunt  WASHINGTON - Army Pvt. Clinton Tyler McCormick is buried in Florida, but his photo and his words are still online. They haven't changed since he logged in to his MySpace.com profile on Dec. 26, 2006 - the day before he was killed by a makeshift bomb in Baghdad.
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Families of British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in World War I will be able to trace their relatives' war records through a Web site launched Monday.
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"These World War I veterans raised a generation that did them one better"  CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. Frank Buckles, frail but sharp, surrounds himself with totems from another time and distant lands. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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The national commander of the proud, patriotic, 2.4 million strong Veterans of Foreign Wars (motto: "Honor the dead by helping the living") took one look at the mushrooming dispute between three antiwar Marine reservists and the U.S. Marine Corps, and knew where his sympathies lay: with the prote...
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R.W. Apple Jr., 71 , a New York Times war correspondent who distinguished himself in Vietnam and became an influential political writer and roving epicure, died Oct. 4 at his home in Washington. He had thoracic cancer.
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Servicemen and women who died in wars are remembered across Wales on Remembrance Day.
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Peter Norman, the Australian who stood alongside the U.S. athletes staging the civil rights protest from the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 64.
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Britain and France paid tribute on Tuesday to one of the greatest spies of the Second World War, a little-known Baltimore woman who organized resistance and sabotage behind Nazi lines despite a prewar hunting mishap that left her with only one leg.
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PARIS In somber ceremonies on Thursday, world leaders and war veterans paid tribute to their war dead on the anniversary of the end of World War I. Armistice Day commemorations are held on the eleventh hour
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Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee paid homage to the thousands of Indians killed in Europe in the First World War.
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Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108.
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A British soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan will be the first to be posthumously awarded the nation's highest military honour since the Falklands War, reports said.
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Family at the funeral of one of the youngest U.S. soldiers to die in the Iraq war remembered him on Tuesday as an enthusiastic boy from Trinidad whose love of guns and his adoptive country drew him into the army at 17.
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BUTTE, Mont. -- Mourners remembered daredevil Evel Knievel on Monday as a red, white and blue American icon who made a spiritual leap of faith long after his death-defying motorcycle jumps.
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A British soldier who died after being injured on patrol in Iraq is named by the Ministry of Defence.