Famous Veterans

American Legion Magazine has announced a list of 25 beloved veterans, based on reader surveys.

Sumner Redstone was still an undergraduate college student when he began a three-year stint as an Army codebreaker in 1943.

In 1982, Tom Ridge became the first enlisted Vietnam veteran elected to Congress.

In 1971 Fred Smith, a young Marine veteran, set up a company that guaranteed overnight delivery of goods between several U.S...

Vernice Armour earned her wings in 2001 -- the first Black female aviator in the Corps.

Capt. Scotty Smiley - the Army's first blind active-duty officer - lives the true meaning of perseverance.

Navy veteran Ben Bradlee turned an undistinguished daily paper into one of the world's great news organizations.

You’d never know by looking at these four celebrities, but before they entered the limelight, they all served in the U.S...

Vin Scully, the beloved voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers for more than half a century, died in Hidden Hills, California, on...

Storch starred alongside fellow WWII vet Forrest Tucke and Army vet Ken Berry in the outrageous comedy series F Troop, about...