Holidays

On this Fourth of July, celebrate our country’s freedom with the following holiday events offered for Independence Day.

Service members and families are being honored with a variety of military discounts to celebrate July 4th.

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most...

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her...

It happens each December: Volunteers and others place live wreaths on veterans’ gravesites in what has become a holiday...

Hosted by the American Veterans Center, the National Memorial Day Parade returns along Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C...

Learn Memorial Day flag etiquette, including when to fly the U.S. flag at half-staff and how to honor the fallen with proper...

The White House has backed off President Donald Trump’s stunning social media proposal to change the name of Veterans Day to...

In April 1968, I was a 21-year-old Air Force sergeant in Vietnam, assigned to an Army base camp surrounding the village of...

"Gold Star mother:" It's a distinction that no mother wants, but one that many of them wear proudly.