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OLEAN — A short ceremony Monday allowed Oleanders to gather and reflect on those who died defending the nation. Dozens of residents attended the cerem...

BUFFALO — It looks much different from one year ago at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park. In spring 2020, the Naval Park was shutter...

BUFFALO — Harsh winter weather and winds have damaged the USS The Sullivans, a World War II-era destroyer at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Milit...

HONOLULU (AP) — Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, he s...

By mid-October 1968, I had arrived in Vietnam to begin my nearly 400-day odyssey. Basic training at Fort Dix, military police school in Georgia and th...

As we look ahead to Veterans Day, which is Wednesday, we urge readers to take a long look at our special section inserted today, saluting veterans fro...

Donald Trump’s history of denigrating our country’s brave service men and women and his praise for dangerous dictators endanger the security of our mi...

In a picture he looks all of 14. But in fact he’s 24. My brother, Robert Littell, Alfred University alumnus, later to become a world-famous author of ...

On this Memorial Day weekend, we look back at one of the deadliest days in the history of U.S. Special Operations. Nineteen Americans — among them U.S...

Seven years ago, U.S. Navy Lt. Rebekah Fleming joined the Navy for the education and career opportunities it would provide her. Now she’s serving on t...

MAYPORT — Seven years ago, Lt. Rebekah Fleming joined the Navy for the education and career opportunities it would provide her, and she is now serving...

Late in the 1990s, Eloise Coyne’s sister convinced her to come down from the Southern Tier of New York to Florida. Eloise did, and she soon met someon...

A 42-year member of the American Legion from Limestone was honored this month for his life of service — to his country, to his community and to his Le...

The oceans are huge, deep and mysterious, stretching across the globe from the bitter cold of the poles to the blistering heat of the tropics. Oceans ...

Last month a group of veterans I was stationed with in Baghdad, Iraq from 2008-9 met in Florida for our much-anticipated reunion. Sadly, last year we ...

OLEAN — Hundreds lined South Union Street on Monday to watch Olean’s Memorial Day parade and ceremonies. One veteran who was awaiting the casting of t...

When World War II ended in 1945, hundreds of men and women from Olean and the Twin Tiers region returned in jubilant homecomings, as family and friend...

From a call to veterans to remember their fallen comrades to a small world for sailors at war; from hopes for ice skating at War Vets Park to new hope...