Veterans

Larry Schlesinger, a WWII Army veteran, celebrated his 103rd birthday Saturday surrounded by generations of family and friends, reflecting on over a century of life. Kathy Vara reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Oct. 6, 2024.

A WWII veteran celebrated his 103rd birthday with family and friends Saturday, reflecting on over a century of life.

Federal Judge David O. Carter ruled Thursday that the ballpark is incompatible with the mission of the VA and that the property can be better used to build housing for homeless vets. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Sept. 26, 2024.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must lock down UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium on the VA’s West Los Angeles, a federal judge ordered.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must lock down UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium on the VA’s West Los Angeles campus at noon Thursday, a judge says. Video broadcast Thursday Sept. 26, 2024 on Today in LA

In a hard-hitting, sometimes-shocking ruling that blasts the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for “turning its back” on the disabled veterans it was designed to help, a federal judge today ordered additional permanent housing on the agency’s West Los Angeles campus.

A federal judge has ordered the VA to build hundreds of housing units and to stop leasing its West LA units to non-veterans. This video was broadcast on Today in LA on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.

Disability payments had sometimes been considered compensation and pushed veterans over the income limits for receiving assistance. The policy was changed Thursday.

The statistics come amid renewed calls to change a law that has thrown many veterans into sudden hardship.

Comedian Jon Stewart and troops sickened by uranium have ended a meeting at the Department of Veterans Affairs angry that once again they have been told they will have to wait to see whether the VA will connect their illnesses to the toxic base where they were deployed shortly after 9/11.

Special operations forces deployed to Karshi-Khanabad, or “K2,” in Uzbekistan have pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs for help for years, but so far the VA has not acted.

The Best Defense Foundation brought American veterans back to the battlefields where they served.

World War II veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot near the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France. He’s 100, she’s a youngster of just 96.

Robert Persichitti suffered a medical episode while on a ship en route to Normandy, he was airlifted to a hospital in Germany and “died peacefully” to music by his favorite artist, Frank Sinatra.

While the U.S. military used the herbicide to defoliate the dense jungles of Vietnam and adjoining countries, it was contaminating the land and waters on U.S. bases with the same chemicals, according to documents.

Thieves targeted a third cemetery in the Compton and Carson area, stealing more than 100 bronze name plaques of those who’ve passed away as well as a plaque dedicated to black WWII soldiers.

Lincoln Memorial Park Cemertery is the third cemetery targeted in a series of bronze thefts in the Carson-Compton area. Over 100 bronze nameplates and a 1944 bronze plaque honoring African American veterans were stolen. Anastassia Olmos reports for the NBC4 News on Jan. 15, 2024.

A Kentucky veteran killed during World War II was buried on Friday after his remains were identified through DNA testing.

New data from the Veterans Benefits Administration that NBC obtained shows a wide disparity for former military members seeking disability benefits.

Students at a Detroit high school are serving as pallbearers for military veterans who were homeless when they died or without a family.