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USAA’s Poppy Wall of Honor returns to National Mall for 6th year to honor and remember fallen service members

The temporary installation provides a space for remembrance and reflection while honoring the lives and impact made by the 600,000 military members lost in service to our country.
By Tessa Robinson

Posted on May 23, 2025 1:01 PM PDT

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Feature

Army vets use AI to make home management easy

Oply tells you what your home needs before you need it and connects you with pros in the local area to get it done.

By Miguel Ortiz

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Feature

AI is improving America’s cities thanks to these Air Force vets

By Miguel Ortiz

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Entertainment

Behind the Badge: FOX News Johnny Joey Jones shines a light on the hidden battles of first responders

By Jessica Manfre

Beijing, CHINA: Visitors walk past China's second nuclear missile on display as they visit the Military Museum in Beijing, 23 July 2007. The US military 22 July said its troops had found Chinese-made missiles which they believe were smuggled into Iraq by groups in Iran in order to arm groups fighting US-led forces. AFP PHOTO/TEH ENG KOON (Photo credit should read TEH ENG KOON/AFP via Getty Images)
History

The US ‘misplaced’ these nuclear weapons

By Bethaney Phillips

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Sports

Ally Racing to honor fallen Vietnam Veteran during Coca-Cola 600 with custom car

By Joel Searls

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History

History

4 deadly weapons the military never made

By Bethaney Phillips

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History

Roman gladiators fought lions for sport and there’s finally proof

By Blake Stilwell

Oslyabya Imperial Russian Battleship
History

The first modern steel battleship to be sunk by gunfire was an Imperial Russian flagship

By Blake Stilwell

These everyday inventions came from failed military experiments
History

These everyday inventions came from failed military experiments

By Bethaney Phillips

The last C-130 out of Vietnam
Vietnam War

The last C-130 out of Vietnam

By Miguel Ortiz

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Entertainment

Movies

Why the Air Force wouldn’t take George Lucas as an officer

By Joel Searls

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: Mr. T attends the Team USA Awards at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts on April 26, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Larry French/Getty Images for USOC)
Movies

Mr. T: 80s icon, US Army veteran, pitier of fools, former pro-wrestler and A-Team star turns 73!

By Joel Searls

How Gordon Logan went from the Air Force to founding Sport Clips
Sports

How Gordon Logan went from the Air Force to founding Sport Clips

By Joel Searls

PARIS - SEPTEMBER 13: American author Clive Cussler poses while on a visit to Paris,France on the 13th of September 2004.(Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
Entertainment

Before Clive Cussler was a best-selling novelist, he served in the Korean War

By Joel Searls

American actor Jack Nicholson smiling at the camera. (Photo by Roy Jones/Getty Images)
Movies

Jack Nicholson, Hollywood Icon and military veteran, turns 88

By Joel Searls

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Military News

Navy

$580 million contract awarded to Raytheon for new Navy jammer

By Miguel Ortiz

circa 1980: A sidewinder, a small venomous rattlesnake, raises its head to strike a human hand. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Military News

 A self-taught snake expert’s 200 snake bites may lead to a universal ‘cure’ for snake venom

By Blake Stilwell

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
Military News

First American pope, Pope Leo XIV, is the son of WWII Navy veteran

By Tessa Robinson

Team Red, White & Blue runners kick Off 3,000-mile relay across the United States
Military News

Team Red, White & Blue runners kick Off 3,000-mile relay across the United States

By Team Mighty

No REAL ID is no problem with these military & veteran ID cards
Military News

No REAL ID is no problem with these military & veteran ID cards

By Miguel Ortiz

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Career

Tory Burch Fellowship fuels Spouse-ly founder to support entrepreneurs

By Teal Yost

6 real truths about the deployment glow-up
Wellness

6 real truths about the deployment glow-up

By Jessica Evans

The red-flag phrases in the milspouse group chat
MilSpouse Mental Health

The red-flag phrases in the milspouse group chat

By Jessica Evans

9 places for your next milspouse girls’ trip
Travel

9 places for your next milspouse girls’ trip

By Erin Henderson

A deploying North Carolina Air National Guardsman hugs his wife and says goodbye before departure at the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, April 28, 2017. The day’s deployment kicks off the second wave of the North Carolina Air National Guard’s final C-130 deployment, a mission in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
Wellness

Yes, you know what you were signing up for

By Jessica Evans

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