12 November 2024 Pacific Air Forces commander honors service members in Veterans Day address Nestled within the natural “punch bowl” of an extinct volcanic crater and watched over by the figure of Lady Columbia, military veterans were honored and celebrated for their courage, dedication, and enduring legacy of service during a Veterans Day Ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the...
12 November 2024 Statement From Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Veterans Day On Veterans Day, we honor the extraordinary selflessness and strength of the American patriots who have served in the U.S. military. Today and every day, we give thanks to the generations of men and women who have answered the call to protect our country. They have defended our freedoms and upheld...
11 December 2015 Corporal Tibor Rubin, Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 86 WASHINGTON -- Holocaust survivor, Korean War hero and Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin died Dec. 5 of natural causes. The Garden Grove, California, resident was 86 years old when he passed.Rubin, born in Pásztó, Hungary, in 1929, found himself in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, at...
13 November 2015 Tarawa Marine Returns Home 72 Years After the Battle HONOLULU - Marines from U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency performed a dignified transfer of remains, Nov. 12, 2015, for Cpl. Roger K. Nielson, a Marine killed during the WWII Battle of Tarawa.The Battle of Tarawa took place Nov. 20 1943 on the small island...
13 November 2015 Honolulu City and County, U.S. Military Rededicate Neal S. Blaisdell Center as War Memorial HONOLULU, Hawaii – Service members and community members gathered at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu for a war memorial plaque rededication ceremony Nov. 10.Originally dedicated on Sept. 12, 1964, as a living memorial to all of Hawaii's war veterans and war dead, acknowledgement and...
11 November 2015 Patriotism Celebrated, Service Honored During Veteran's Day Ceremony HAWAII STATE VETERANS CEMETERY, Hawaii – American veterans were honored and celebrated for their patriotism, love of country and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good during the 2015 Governor’s Veterans Day Ceremony at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Nov. 11.The event included a...
10 November 2015 State-of-the-Art Lab Helps Identify Lost Service Members JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Sifting through the remains of lost military members is no easy task, but it’s one researchers and scientists take very seriously at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency labs in Hawaii. Now, they have a brand-new building that will centralize their efforts...
09 November 2015 Veteran Honors Parents as Caretaker for the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC, Hawaii -- Veterans Day serves as a time to celebrate and honor American veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the preservation and protection of the nation. For some veterans, taking time to honor and...
29 December 2014 France to honor Maui WWII veterans WAILUKU, Hawaii — Eighteen Mauians, members of the famed 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team, are among 50 World War II veterans in Hawaii who have been approved for the Legion of Honor, France's highest decoration. The 18 men, three of whom will be honored posthumously, were...