Howard Milhoan is 98, and he got a surprise tribute at a Patriots BBQ in Greenwood County, South Carolina. He joined the Navy at 17 in 1945 and served in the Pacific. When the Korean War started, he put on the uniform again and served as an Army first sergeant. His secret at 98 is one good deed a day and staying active. His words: "It's hard to hit a moving target." The best gift of the night came from an 8-year-old girl who gave him a bracelet she made herself. Thank you for your service, Howard. Happy early 99th, coming Nov. 9. 🇺🇸 I guess the key to a long life, according to Howard, is doing a good deed every day and keeping moving. "It's hard to hit a moving target." indexjournal.com/townnews/po…

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William Gervais Jr. went missing in the Hurtgen Forest in World War II, and eighty years later he's finally coming home to Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He was a 2nd Ranger Battalion soldier sent as a messenger after his unit took a hill in Germany. The last anyone saw of him, he was being led into a German pillbox. His remains were found in 1946 and buried in Belgium. The Army identified him this June. It started in 2018, when the Army contacted his great-niece, Pauline Parker, for a DNA sample. She didn't even know she had a great-uncle who served. When someone suggested burying him in Germany, she said, "We are his family. He should come home to us and not be buried where nobody will see him or know of him." He'll be laid to rest at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne this December, surrounded by the family who never forgot him. Welcome home, Ranger. Thank you for your service. 🇺🇸 It warms my heart that the military is still actively working to identify the unidentified heroes of the past. And thanks to DNA research, it's happening at a quickening pace. sippican.theweektoday.com/ar…

Thousands of trained service members leave the military every year with exactly the skills employers say they can't find, and too many have no clear path to a job. A Louisiana group called The Boot, run by former military to help transitioning service members and their families, just won a $6.5 million, three-year U.S. Department of Labor grant to change that. The program will move veterans, service members and military family members into construction, manufacturing, defense and aviation maintenance jobs across Louisiana, coastal Mississippi and the Texas Gulf Coast. It pays for the things that sideline good people before they start: tuition, travel, lodging and certification fees. It also gives veterans credit for the skills they earned in uniform instead of making them start over. The goal is a job for every participant within six months. This is the kind of help our veterans have earned. Enrollment details are coming in the next few weeks. houmatimes.com/news/the-boot…

59 veterans just came home to Rochester, New York, on the last Honor Flight of the 2026 season. Honor Flight Rochester's Mission 99 carried veterans from every era: 2 from the Korean War, 1 Cold War veteran, 1 who served in both the Cold War and Vietnam, 9 Vietnam veterans, and 46 who served after 1975. Neighbors, fellow veterans and a color guard from the West Webster Fire Department were waiting at the airport to welcome them back. Some of these men and women came home to nothing at all. Seeing a crowd cheering for every era of veterans is what this country should do. Welcome home, and thank you for your service. 🇺🇸 13wham.com/news/local/honor-…

Flo Sasse turned 105 this week, and she got to school on a sleigh. Born in North Dakota in 1921, Florence "Flo" Sasse rode a sleigh or wagon to a one-room schoolhouse, then spent her career as an elementary school teacher. Her life took her to Guam and Iran before she settled in Santa Maria, California, and she spent 35 years with the Evangelism Good News team. Family, staff and fellow residents threw her an early party at Marian Extended Care Center. She said, "I have lots of friends from various places. Last year I think I got 150 birthday cards." Asked for her secret, she said, "Live one day at a time. Don't count the time, just live it. Live for today and be thankful." That's 105 years of wisdom in two sentences. Happy birthday, Flo. 🎂 independent.com/2026/10/25/c…

Hundreds of free hot jambalaya lunches are about to go to the first responders of Southwest Louisiana. Faith Bible Church in Lake Charles does this every year to say thank you to the people who run toward trouble when everyone else runs away. This year's meal is Tuesday, October 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church on Tom Hebert Road, one day before National First Responders Day. No speeches, no big production, just a hot meal and a thank you. That's how it's done in Louisiana. 🇺🇸 We need more people doing events like this for the people who put their lives on the line for us right here at home. kplctv.com/2026/10/25/faith-…

Patrick Feges is a military veteran who owns a Houston barbecue joint, and every Friday since 2018 he has handed fellow veterans a free tray of brisket-and-sides and asked for nothing. Two meats, two sides, a drink and a dessert. More than 23,000 meals in eight years, for veterans from every branch. Some are doing fine, and some are down on their luck. Now they gather out front every week just to catch up, and Feges says, "They take care of each other and look after each other. That's what we all need." It runs on donations. $23 buys one veteran's meal. A few of his friends just left their credit cards with him. One told him to keep feeding people every week until they hit a number nobody ever hit. Veterans Day is Nov. 11. As Feges puts it, "this is a pretty easy thing for somebody to do." I'm in for a meal. Are you? 🇺🇸 chron.com/food/article/feges…

Any delivery driver who's worked a route knows when a stop doesn't look right. A driver in Peoria, Arizona noticed 30 to 50 packages under different names piling up at the same house over just a couple of days and called it in. That one tip just blew open an alleged $1.23 million fraud ring. Police and federal agents arrested six people, allegedly led by 30-year-old Hoài Nguyen Nguyen, after investigators say the crew used hacked Walmart accounts and stolen cards to place 15,500 orders, funnel the boxes through two boba tea shops, haul them to California in a U-Haul, and ship them in cargo containers to Vietnam. Officers even seized $35,000 in cash and $45,000 in gold bars. As Peoria Police Officer William Kennedy put it: "Without that delivery driver, I don't know if it would have come across our radar." Never underestimate the guy on the route who actually pays attention. I had this happen many times when I was a driver, and I reported every single one. I hate thieves. azfamily.com/2026/10/22/6-ar…