Veterans Day 2025 deals and freebies: Chipotle, Shake Shack and more

Veterans Day 2025 deals and freebies: Chipotle, Shake Shack and more

Veterans Day is Tuesday, Nov. 11, and restaurants nationwide are showing their appreciation and honoring veterans with food deals and freebies. Some places require proof of service, like a military ID, and some allow veterans and their families to get in on it. Here are the deals to look out for this Veterans Day: Applebee’s … Read more

Exclusive | Navy helicopter pilot featured in 2025 Pin-Ups For Vets calendar has roots in Queens

Exclusive | Navy helicopter pilot featured in 2025 Pin-Ups For Vets calendar has roots in Queens

She was on cloud nine. Navy helicopter pilot Lt. Jennifer Bennie, one of the fearless female veterans featured in the 2025 Pin-Ups For Vets calendar, was flying high on the glam that comes with being a calendar girl. “I had never been so pampered. I felt so beautiful. I had my makeup professionally done, my … Read more

Ex-Green Beret and NFLer defends Michael Strahan in ‘ridiculous’ national anthem controversy

Ex-Green Beret and NFLer defends Michael Strahan in ‘ridiculous’ national anthem controversy

Nate Boyer said he doesn’t understand why Michael Strahan is facing backlash over his body language during the national anthem on a special pre-Veterans Day broadcast on “Fox NFL Sunday” from Naval Base San Diego. Strahan was criticized for standing with his hands folded in front of him during the national anthem, while his Fox Sports … Read more

Prince Harry pays tribute to ‘my fellow veterans’ after missing royal family reunion at Remembrance Day

Prince Harry pays tribute to ‘my fellow veterans’ after missing royal family reunion at Remembrance Day

Prince Harry has addressed “my fellow veterans” in a poignant speech in honor of Veterans Day and Remembrance Day, which falls on Nov. 11 annually. The Duke of Sussex, 40, released a tribute honoring the surviving and fallen veterans and servicemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country in conflicts such as the First … Read more

Military veterans say these dogs saved them from crippling PTSD — ‘He’s totally changed my life’

Military veterans say these dogs saved them from crippling PTSD — ‘He’s totally changed my life’

They fight for our freedoms but often struggle to live their own lives freely due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Roughly 7% of all US service veterans have PTSD, with symptoms such as severe anxiety, sleep disturbances and agoraphobia. For some struggling vets, a service dog proves invaluable. “He’s totally changed my life,” said Tarik … Read more

Veterans Day 2024 deals: All the restaurant and retail stores offering discounts

Veterans Day 2024 deals: All the restaurant and retail stores offering discounts

Thank you for your service. That’s the message restaurants across the country are serving up on Veterans Day this year. On Monday, Nov. 11 and in some cases beyond, popular chains from coast to coast are offering irresistible deals and free meals to our fierce defenders of freedom, as a small token of appreciation. From … Read more

Exclusive | ‘Tulsa King’ actress who plays Stallone’s daughter is a former Marine lieutenant married to a Green Beret

Exclusive | ‘Tulsa King’ actress who plays Stallone’s daughter is a former Marine lieutenant married to a Green Beret

She went from the Marines to the mob. Tatiana Zappardino plays a Mafia princess in “Tulsa King,” but in real life, is a former Marine lieutenant. The actress, who stars as Tina, the daughter of Sylvester Stallone’s character, Dwight, a New York Mafia capo exiled to Oklahoma, said her veteran status helped her land the role. … Read more

Exclusive | Father of Navy SEAL Michael Murphy has spent the last 20 years keeping hero son’s legacy alive: ‘A higher sense of purpose’

Exclusive | Father of Navy SEAL Michael Murphy has spent the last 20 years  keeping hero son’s legacy alive: ‘A higher sense of purpose’

It’s been nearly 20 years since Daniel Murphy was told his son Michael, a Navy SEAL Lieutenant from Long Island, had been killed in action in Afghanistan — along with two team members and 16 other military personnel. While the Medal of Honor recipient’s heroics were memorialized in the 2013 film “Lone Survivor,” his proud dad … Read more

High school kids step up to honor deceased homeless veterans — by serving as pallbearers

High school kids step up to honor deceased homeless veterans — by serving as pallbearers

With the country gripped by a homelessness epidemic, community-minded students at one high school in Detroit are volunteering their time to ensure dignified burials for homeless and unclaimed veterans in their city. “It’s a reminder that every person, especially in the Christian religious tradition, is made in the image of God and is deserving of … Read more

Veteran’s Day 2023: Meet the heroes who kept America safe

Veteran’s Day 2023:  Meet the heroes who kept America safe

On Veterans Day Weekend 2023, we can be proud that the United States still has citizens willing to fight and die for their country. As America faces renewed threats both at home and abroad, meet eight brave US veterans of our nation’s two most recent conflicts, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.  … Read more

Vietnam broadcast helped homesick troops — and inspired Robin Williams

Vietnam broadcast helped homesick troops — and inspired Robin Williams

“Gooooood morning, Vietnam!” The memorable greeting, immortalized by Robin Williams in the 1987 film of the same name, wasn’t a creation of Hollywood. It was inspired by the true story of DJ and Air Force Sgt. Adrian Cronauer, who hosted a morning radio show on the American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) in Saigon during the … Read more

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry make under-the-radar visit to Camp Pendleton ahead of Veterans Day as royal tensions swirl

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry make under-the-radar visit to Camp Pendleton ahead of Veterans Day as royal tensions swirl

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have paid a visit to San Diego’s Camp Pendleton ahead of Veterans Day. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Wednesday shared that they spent the morning with veterans, active duty service members, as well as their families during the brief visit. Meghan, 42, and Harry, 39, stopped by Operation … Read more

Las Vegas strip club offers free lap dances to military members for Veteran’s Day

Las Vegas strip club offers free lap dances to military members for Veteran’s Day

Thank you for your full-service. An America-loving Las Vegas strip club is honoring Veterans Day by offering free lap dances to current and former military members. Managers at Sin City’s world-famous Crazy Horse III announced the bump-and-grind giveaway on Monday, unveiling a frisky flyer for the patriotic promotion featuring a busty blond in a skimpy, … Read more

Boy born at 11:11 on Nov. 11, 2011, celebrates 11th birthday: ‘Nobody forgets!’

Boy born at 11:11 on Nov. 11, 2011, celebrates 11th birthday: ‘Nobody forgets!’

The number 11 is seventh heaven for this family. Back in 2011, Daniel Saunders of Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, UK, was due to be born on Nov. 17. But he had contorted himself into a position that led the doctors to schedule a cesarean section on Remembrance Day, as Nov. 11 is known in the United Kingdom … Read more