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Category: Veterans Coming Home
VCH – Wreaths Across America
Next weekend, hundreds of thousands of wreaths will be laid on the graves of Veterans all across the country. A ceremony to honor more than 150 veterans at the Saint Bernard’s and United Methodist Cemetery in the hamlet of Lyon Mountain will be held again this year. Volunteers are joining in Wreaths Across America, and placing holiday…
Adirondack craftsman creates Northern Red Oak flagpoles
A retired Marine from the North Country has become known across America for his hand-crafted flagpoles. Danny Kaifetz uses red oak from the Adirondacks to create his beautiful wooden flagpoles.
Veterans Coming Home | Wilderness Camp
A Veterans organization transforms a former camp in the Adirondacks into a retreat for veterans. Many veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan can have a hard time adjusting to life back home. Homeward Bound Adirondacks is a non-profit group that helps Veterans who are having trouble adjusting or suffering from PTSD. For several…
Reviving History
In honor of Memorial Day this week our Veterans Coming Home Series Producer Michael Hansen has the story of an Army Veteran who on a visit to a cemetery found a gravesite almost entirely overgrown with sod & moss. When he peeled it back, he discovered it was a veteran’s marker. That’s how Carl Benware’s…
Local vets fly to see the memorials that honor them for the first time
North Country Honor Flight took 15 Veterans to Washington, D.C. on October 20th to visit the memorials in their honor. Hundreds gathered on the Oval of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base to give the veterans a huge send-off, including a parade to Plattsburgh International Airport. The veterans were greeted by more than 100 people…
Sailor Honored in Malone
Jack LaDuke has the the story of a local veteran recently honored more than 50 years after losing his life in the worst naval disaster in U.S. history. Steve Cayey from Malone, New York, was among the 129 sailors who died in the sinking of the USS Thresher submarine, off the coast of Cape Cod…
VCH – My Lai Memorial
One of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War was the My Lai Massacre. On the 50th anniversary this past fall a Memorial Exhibit was put on display at the Grange Hall in Whallonsburg, New York to remember the thousands of Vietnamese people who were executed, and the cover-up. Veterans Coming Home Producer Michael Hansen…
Turning A Mess Into A Message
When he was young, planes flew over Scott Aubin’s house everyday out of Plattsburgh’s Strategic Air Command base. He later joined the United States Air Force and became a crew chief. A pair of traumatic accidents while he served left Scott with an alcohol problem and increasingly unable to deal with life at home. He…
A Vietnam Vet’s Love of Photography
We meet a Vietnam veteran, who discovered a passion for photography, that after the war, turned into a career. Watch Michael Hansen’s Veterans Coming Home story on Clifford Oliver, who as a African-American, faced racism in the Deep South during his time in the service.
The Falling and The Rising: New Seagle Music Colony Opera
Seagle Music Colony is excited to be a co-commissioner of this important new opera that explores the experiences of wounded US Veterans — The Falling and The Rising. Based on the real-life experiences of returning veterans, The Falling and The Rising follows the triumph and struggle of veterans returning home from deployment. The opera explores…
