Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a 20-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces corporal shortly after D-Day.
The military expects to have the mission to distribute aid to the Gaza Strip in the next 60 days.
While reiterating his support for Israel, Biden used the announcement and the bright spotlight of his State of the Union speech to renew months of U.S. calls to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change how he conducts the war.
Heroism while his boat sank earned Torpedoman’s Mate 2nd Class Henry Breault the military's highest decoration in 1924.
While Biden dedicated significant portions of his first two State of the Union speeches to veterans policy, this year's speech included just a brief mention of his biggest accomplishment so far on veterans issues: the PACT Act.
The father of a Marine killed in Afghanistan was kicked out of the president's national address Thursday after trying to disrupt the speech.