As a child, Leigh Ann Hester’s father took her to see parade where she watched service men and women march in uniform. Looking up as
A Wallowa County veteran is healing from much-needed shoulder replacement surgery thanks to Angel Flight, a national nonprofit that arranges free nonemergency air travel for
In our weekly War Stories series, we tell the stories of Central Oregon’s war veterans–some who made it back from their war and some who
Bomb blasts cause an estimated 78 percent of combat injuries from Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND). A group of 333 Veterans
A soldier from Medford is being portrayed in a National Geographic TV series called “The Long Road Home,” but he hasn’t been able to see
When you have a physical injury, go to the doctor. A psychological injury? Get thee to a psychiatrist. But what can be done if you
Wednesday, October 18 at 10:00 p.m. Shot over the course of the entire nine-month battle to retake Mosul from ISIS, this vivid documentary follows the
The Toxic Exposure / Agent Orange & Veteran’s Health Issues Town Hall will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at the Winston Community Center,
When I came home from Iraq in 2004, little information and relatively few resources were available to help me reintegrate. And in addition to trying
On Monday, as people across the U.S. remembered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, members of the Yamhill County Veterans Honor Guard shoot of a volley in
Today, we commemorate the lives lost in 2001 in New York, the Pentagon, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Our nation’s resilience in the face of the unspeakable
CENTRAL POINT — After serving four tours of duty in Iraq between 1999 and 2009, Adam Esposito came back a different person. He has been
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