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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

US military veterans

A man identified as Scott Hayes holds a pistol during a fight with an identified man who attacked him during a pro-Israel rally in Newton, Massachusetts on September 12, 2024. (Screen capture: X/KassyAkiva)
September 13, 2024, 12:47 pm
Man shot after attacking pro-Israel demonstrator in Boston suburb
Activist Scott Hayes who shot his attacker was swiftly arrested and charged, drawing ADL complaint; video shows passerby yelling at group before rushing at Hayes and assaulting him
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative — A display stands in front of the headstone of Robert L. Cotton, who served in the US Navy, in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Sunday, May 29, 2022. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
July 1, 2024, 1:16 pm
US Defense Dept. lab finds pattern of brain damage in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
Veterans experienced debilitating cognitive issues and mood swings around age 40; damage linked to repeated blast exposure from own weapons
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli artillery unit firing shells towards Lebanon near the Israeli border with Lebanon, January 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 8, 2024, 4:29 pm
Invisible traumatic brain injuries in wounded IDF soldiers may have devastating effects
Recent immigrant and expert researcher on concussions, Dr. Raquel Gardner leads efforts to raise awareness among colleagues to accurately diagnose and treat patients post-Oct. 7
By Renee Ghert-Zand
US President Joe Biden talks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, May 26, 2023. (Susan Walsh/AP)
May 28, 2023, 10:48 am
US debt-ceiling deal: What’s known so far about the agreement to avert default
Non-defense spending roughly flat in the 2024 fiscal year, full funding for veterans as per Biden’s proposed budget plan, changes to food stamp program
By KEVIN FREKING
Edward Shames, center, hugs Ed McClung, center left, both members of the World War II Army Company E of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne, with veterans Jack Foley, left, Joe Lesniewski, right, and Shifty Powers, far right, at the Library of Congress in Washington, on July 16, 2003. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
December 5, 2021, 8:41 pm
Dead at 99, WWII vet who used cognac from Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest at son’s bar mitzvah
Edward Shames, last surviving ‘Band of Brothers’ officer, was the first member of the 101st Airborne Division to enter Dachau concentration camp
By AP
World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks acknowledges the crowd as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, September 12, 2019. (AP Photo/ Gerald Herbert)
September 13, 2021, 9:04 pm
Oldest American WWII veteran celebrates 112th birthday
Lawrence Brooks, who served in New Guinea and Philippines during war, feted with jeep parade, musical performances and an official proclamation by city of New Orleans
By AP
In this photo provided by Holly Wooten McDonald, World War II veteran and COVID-19 survivor Major Wooten holds a celebratory milkshake on his 104th birthday on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Madison, Alabama. Wooten was released from the hospital this week after contracting the illness caused by the new coronavirus before Thanksgiving. (Holly Wooten McDonald via AP)
December 4, 2020, 1:14 am
US WWII vet survives COVID to celebrate 104th birthday
Family hails miracle recovery of Major Wooten of Alabama, who was treated with newly approved antibody therapy after being diagnosed
By JAY REEVES
US President Donald Trump participates in a Veterans Day wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. on November 11, 2020. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
November 11, 2020, 9:39 pm
Trump visits Arlington for Veteran’s Day in first public event since defeat
Trip to cemetery follows days holed up at White House tweeting angry, baseless claims of voter fraud after losing to Biden
By Zeke Miller and AAMER MADHANI
World War II veteran Philip Kahn, who died from the coronavirus on April 17, 2020. (Facebook)
April 25, 2020, 1:54 pm
WWII veteran dies from coronavirus 100 years after his twin died of Spanish Flu
Grandson of Philip Kahn says he would often warn that history repeats itself, ‘knew the irony of what was going on’ after he began coughing
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The entrance of the SS concentration camp at Ohrdruf in Thuringia, Germany on April 8, 1945, in which yet more damming proof of atrocities committed by Hitler’s SS was uncovered when units of the fourth armoured division of General Patton’s Third US army overran the district and liberated those inmates who were still alive. (AP Photo)
April 16, 2020, 5:13 pm
Jewish liberator of Nazi camp, wife of 78 years die hours apart
Daughter of Muriel and David Cohen, an American WWII veteran, says the couple chose not to be separated after her mom tested positive for virus: ‘They were always together’
By AP
In this photo taken on November 7, 2019, Marcel Schmetz shows the motor of a crashed World War II Marauder B-26 at the Remember Museum 39-45 in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
December 15, 2019, 3:58 pm
75 years on, Battle of the Bulge memories bond veterans
In Belgium, a special museum links the surviving veterans of World War II even as it works to preserve their legacy
By Raf Casert
World War II and Battle of the Bulge US veteran Arthur Jacobson, from Port St. Lucie, Florida, at an interview with The Associated Press at the Remember Museum 39-45 in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, December 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
December 13, 2019, 4:37 pm
75 years later, US troops who foiled Hitler’s last gamble return to battlefield
In Belgium, veteran Arthur Jacobson, 95, wistfully visits the graves of friends he lost in WWII’s Battle of the Bulge, considered one of the greatest battles in US history
By Raf Casert
Goldstrom (right) with his chaplain assistant in Afghanistan, Sgt David Teakell, while riding to visit military personnel at other bases and outposts in 2013. (Courtesy of Goldstrom via JTA)
November 8, 2019, 9:58 pm
Meet the rabbi who led Yom Kippur services in Saddam Hussein’s palace
A three-decade military career has taken David Goldstrom from serving in the US Navy in the Pacific, to Iraq and Afghanistan, and now a chaplain for veterans who have returned home
By Ben Sales
Gregory J. Melikian, a 20-year old Sergeant working in SHAEF headquarters of Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1944 and 1945, and a witness in the surrender of the high German Authorities in Reims, France, poses during an interview with the Associated Press on August 23, 2019 in Paris. (AP/Daniel Cole)
August 24, 2019, 4:59 pm
75 years later, US World War II veterans celebrate liberation of Paris
Now in their 90s, former Allied soldiers, French resistance fighters and others take part in ceremonies marking anniversary of operation to free the capital from Nazi occupation
By Angela Charlton
Howard and Jean Somers testify about their son's suicide following during a House Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill. Washington, DC, July 10, 2014. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
August 5, 2019, 3:38 pm
6 years on, parents of Jewish Army vet who took own life still fight for change
Howard and Jean Somers of Arizona have become tireless advocates for reform in what they see as a system that failed their son
By Josefin Dolsten
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