The unshakable brotherhood Russell 鈥淩uss鈥� Granger found among a ragtag group of men within a converted Catholic rectory was unlike anything he had experienced since he retired from the Air Force a decade prior. The Cornerstone Residence Recovery Home for Veterans - a nonprofit sober ...
There鈥檚 鈥渘o trick鈥� to living to be 105, said Julia Plasko. Clean living might have helped, said her daughter, Cindy Levo. Plasko never drank, and never smoked. But she鈥檚 managed to fit in a lot more in her 105 years, from serving in World War II to decades of contributions to the ...
For the second year, members of a Greene County non-profit visited with veterans in Waynesburg on Veterans Day to show their appreciation. Twenty-one members of the Patriots鈥� Dream Riding Association (PDRA) dropped off donated items to veterans at four assisted living facilities as part of ...
Last year on Memorial Day, Dean Stewart noticed that many of the flags marking the graves of veterans at Robinson鈥檚 Run Cemetery were falling over. Bob Moreau, superintendent of the McDonald graveyard, said Stewart offered a fix. 鈥淗e approached me and said he noticed a lot of the flag ...
Those who spoke Sunday at the National Cemetery for the Alleghenies shared a similar message: When celebrating Memorial Day remember those who gave their lives while fighting for their country. 鈥淭he biggest thing about Memorial Day is (to honor) those who died in combat,鈥� said Rocky ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has likely been around as long as men 鈥� and it has almost exclusively been men 鈥� have risked their lives in combat. It was not officially recognized as a mental health condition until 1980, but there are stories going back to the Civil War of ...
