veterans

It’s time once again for this week’s Hometown Hero.  The Hometown Hero is brought to you by Keller Chevrolet and Batavia Downs Gaming.  She is originally from Buffalo, NY.  This week’s Hometown Hero is US Army Specialist Cruscita Flythe.

It sounds like something out of a movie: a complete stranger rescues a man from a burning house and then just disappears. Well, it actually happened recently in Fresno, California.

Each year, more than 250,000 Servicemembers take off their uniform for the last time. And for those transitioning Veterans, among the first questions they ask is: What’s next?

To better meet the needs of Veterans and others who have suffered mild to moderate concussion associated with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed "Concussion Coach," a mobile application (“app”) that provides portable tools to recognize symptoms and to identify and make use of coping strategies.

We are proud each week to tell you about people from right here in Western New York who help to ensure our freedom in our armed services.  This week, we honor 29 year old Sgt. Mark Flack with the United States Marine Corps.

This week's Hometown Hero is originally from Buffalo.  It's 26 year old Army Sergeant Katie Bauman!

He’s currently deployed but he is making his hometown of Mount Morris proud.  Today’s Hometown Hero is representing the Navy.  It’s Shane Chesnes.

It's hard to think that footage of a guy tooling around in Ferrari will be so touching, but that's exactly the case here.

Jim 'Pee Wee' Martin was not about to let the 70th anniversary of D-Day go by without showing his respects.

You really ought to know the way to San Jose.

In May of 2012, I had written a post here at WYRK.com about some interesting facts about the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. I had used a website called freerepublic.com for some of the facts. However, yesterday I received an email from John Shields who actually served as a Sentinel at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier from ’00 to ’02. He explained that some of the statements made in the post were inco

It's been years since the government was shut down. Nonetheless, it's happened again. As of last night at midnight, our government is officially shut down. So what does that mean? It means that essential parts of our government are still active, but many services, such as parks and monuments, will be unavailable to the public. But that wasn't going to stop 92 veterans from seeing a memorial set up