Active-duty military and veterans get a free sandwich with fries or tots on Available for dine-in or call-in to-go orders. Starbucks One free coffee, also eligible to military spouses. Veterans and active-duty military can redeem their dinner vouchers when the restaurant opens for dinner, through May 30, Wienerschnitzel Free small breakfast combo on Veterans Day.
Yard House One free appetizer or dessert. The Parade is the largest Veterans Day event in the country. These elite but little-known specialists are the only Special Forces members dedicated to saving lives. Marching bands, floats and vintage vehicles will add to the celebratory atmosphere.
In addition to the Grand Marshal, the Parade will welcome back U. The Parade, which takes place rain or shine, steps off at pm and will end around pm.
It will proceed on its traditional route on Fifth Avenue, stepping off at 28 th street and going north to 45 th Street, subject to final participation and COVID adjustments. Spectators can view the Parade on Fifth Avenue, from 29th Street to its endpoint.
We know that New Yorkers are eager to show their support for all of our veterans, and to welcome the Parade back to Fifth Avenue! For additional information, visit www. Produced by the United War Veterans Council UWVC , the Parade provides the public with the opportunity to salute our veterans and military and raises awareness for organizations working to serve their needs.
The Parade features veteran groups and service providers, military units, youth and civic groups, top high school bands from across America, vintage vehicles, floats and more. For more information, visit www.
UWVC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that honors and serves veterans. The UWVC supports and promotes a wide range of initiatives that provide vital services to our veterans community including health, wellness and education ; raises positive awareness and increases public understanding of the needs of our veterans community through major public events and promotional activities; and brings together veterans groups, community organizations, government agencies, businesses of all sizes and the general public.
For more information, visit. Don and the other veterans who survived D-Day will someday soon have passed into memory and legend. This realization inspires year-old filmmaker Charlotte Juergens to join Don and seven other D-Day vets on a journey to France — a commemorative pilgrimage to Omaha Beach for the 70th anniversary of the invasion.
The vets come to see Charlotte as a granddaughter, trusting her with their stories as they confront the trauma that still haunts them 70 years after the war.
In capturing their lives, Sunken Roads offers an intergenerational perspective on D-Day, presenting the memories of year-old combat veterans through the eyes of a year-old woman. Documentary by Charlotte Juergens. The last military planes have left Kabul and the evacuation operation is over, Marine Corps Gen.
Frank McKenzie, commander of U. The last C departed with Army Maj. Chris Donahue, the commander of troops in Kabul, and U. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ross Wilson aboard. It was fitting the State and Defense leaders left together, McKenzie said. That Cs played such a part in the evacuation is only fitting.
On Oct. More than , American service members and 25, civilians served in Afghanistan over the almost year mission. A total of 2, U. We honor their sacrifice today. While the military evacuation is complete, the diplomatic mission to ensure additional U. This was the largest non-combatant evacuation operation ever conducted by the U. Since then, U. He praised the more than 5, service members who enabled the operation. Coalition contributions were invaluable and McKenzie cited the contributions of Norway, which kept a hospital open during the evacuation that was instrumental in caring for some of the wounded from the ISIS strike.
The situation on the ground has been complicated. Assumptions and plans changed daily, the general said. One plan was to work with a functioning ally in the Afghan government and security forces. Another was based on the premise that the outer provinces would fall to the Taliban, but that Kabul would stand.
Finally, it became apparent that the government was collapsing and the security forces giving up. Each time the planners in U. Central Command rolled with the punches. They positioned forces in the region to act instantly and pre-positioned aircraft.
They worked with interagency officials and with international partners. McKenzie himself had to meet with Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, to tell them that if the group interfered with the U. This included military operations to bring Americans to be evacuated.
And they accomplished the mission. The film stars not one Mr. The idea itself was very simple: find a dead body, plant false papers on the corpse to make the Nazi leadership believe the Allied invasion in the Mediterranean would take place in Greece, and then drop it where the Germans would inevitably find it.
Yet to pull off the ruse would require ingenuity to navigate the central challenge of finding the appropriate body that looked like it had died in an air crash at sea and floated ashore.
The British eventually found their man in Glyndwr Michael, a vagrant who had recently died in London after swallowing rat poison. And indeed they did. While the idea originally came from none other than Fleming, Ian Fleming, he later admitted he had lifted the idea from a detective novel. It was agents Montagu and Cholmondeley who were the ultimate masterminds behind what they dubbed, rather tongue-in-cheek, Operation Mincemeat. Operation Mincemeat is scheduled to be in theaters in the U.
Read the complete article on the Army Times. In a nutshell…The U. Department of Veterans Affairs offers many benefits for eligible veterans, including VA loans, the GI Bill, job training, medical benefits and housing grants for disabled veterans.
After your time in military service, you may be eligible for numerous veteran benefits. One of the most well-known veteran benefits is VA housing assistance. It is meant to help veterans, service members and surviving spouses buy or build a home, refinance a home or make home improvements. Below are some of the specific programs and insights into each one. The VA backs the loan to protect the lender, not the borrower.
If you miss payments, you still risk getting hit with late fees, decreased credit scores or — worse — possible home foreclosure. VA loans can be used to …. Specific eligibility requirements can vary based on when you served. But veterans, surviving spouses and those joining the military today must generally meet one of the following eligibility criteria to qualify for a VA loan:. Additional eligibility requirements apply in some circumstances, so check with the VA for specifics.
The VA offers just one type of direct loan — through its Native American Direct Loan program for purchases on qualifying tribal lands. Otherwise it offers borrowers indirect, VA-backed loans from private lenders that participate in the VA loan program.
Be sure to shop around and compare mortgage rates to choose the best mortgage for you. Ask friends and family for lender recommendations and be sure to look at online reviews. VA loan programs specify that the home purchase being financed must be for a property used as a primary residence. Here are some other rules to keep in mind:. There are some key differences between VA loans and other types of mortgages that make VA loans so appealing. These differences are:.
There are several types of VA loans that are designed especially for the varying borrowing purposes listed above. These are:. There are both fixed-rate and adjustable-rate VA mortgages. With fixed-rate mortgages, you lock in your interest rate for the life of the loan. With adjustable-rate mortgages, your interest rate fluctuates according to the index of interest rates.
The VA no longer prescribes specific interest rates — adjustable-rate loan changes depend on whether the loan is a standard or hybrid adjustable rate mortgage. Be sure to talk with your lender about which option is best for you, and learn how often these rates are subject to adjustment.
Like almost any type of mortgage, institutions offering VA loans will typically require the borrower to purchase homeowners insurance. Additionally, the VA requires borrowers to have a hazard insurance policy where appropriate flood insurance, for example, in known flood zones , which may be included in the conventional homeowners policy required by your lender.
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