Veterans

Military veterans are targeted on social media in attempts to spread misinformation. Experts tell the News4 I-Team it’s a growing problem. Scott MacFarlane reports.

A U.S. House committee is planning a hearing this summer into the targeting of military veterans for social media disinformation, including by foreign actors seeking to destabilize American politics. Landon Copeland, a former U.S. Army sergeant charged with assaulting police on Jan. 6, said he consumed all of his news through social media.

There’s a new effort to make post 9/11 veterans eligible for health care and disability benefits based on toxic exposure during their service, but the News4 I-Team found some with devastating health conditions may still be left out. Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer has more on the battle they never thought they’d have to fight.

Under the current rules, veterans can collect disability and get free healthcare through the VA when their injury or illness is connected to their military service. But proving that connection can be challenging, especially when a condition develops years later.

Trudy Neely found herself tearing up when she heard the tale of her uncle’s final, harrowing moments in war. Neely had never met her mother’s older brother, Henry Edward Ellis, of Roanoke. The 22-year-old Marine was killed in action in 1950 — four years before Neely was born — during a firefight that erupted when his unit’s convoy encountered an…

The White House announced a plan for deported veterans to return to the United States including a plan for citizenship.

Research compiled by the Costs of War Project at Brown University found an estimated 30,177 active duty personnel and veterans who have served in the military since 9/11 have died by suicide, compared with 7,057 killed in post 9/11 military operations.

After years of planning and construction, a new veterans park opened Monday in District Heights.

News 4’s Darcy Spencer spoke with local veterans about what this new community space means to them.

After more than a year of isolation, American veterans are embracing plans for a more traditional Memorial Day.

Rolling to Remember, a massive motorcycle rally to honor veterans and advocate for their mental health, will be happening all weekend in the D.C. area.

Thousands of bikers are in D.C. to pay tribute to our servicemembers who never came home. News4 Photojournalist Jeff Cridland captured some of the sights and sounds of the Rolling to Remember rally.

“Veterans are absolutely planting roots in communities across the country,” said Chris Birk, director of education at Veterans United, a lender for homebuyers.

Here’s how restaurants are giving back to those who serve our country.

A Virginia veteran was killed, and two other adults and two children were hurt, when a driver fleeing from police on I-95 crashed through express lane gates into oncoming traffic on Thursday, police say. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

They served and protected our country and now they are getting protected from COVID-19.  Residents of military retirement community Falcon’s Landing who wanted to be vaccinated have received their second dose of the vaccine. It was one of the first places to have an outbreak.  With residents and staff vaccinated, the retirement community will scale back some restrictions on...

A success story at a senior living center. All residents and staff of a military retirement community who wanted to be vaccinated have gotten their second dose of the vaccine. And as Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder shows, many of them will soon start their new normal

The commitment of Vietnam War veteran Alan Alter, now 71, was the result of a sequence of trickle-down oversights starting at the top and trickling down to the local level.

A Vietnam veteran’s lucky coin is on its way to Afghanistan, the latest leg of an extraordinary journey that spans several decades and seven military deployments

A Vietnam veteran’s lucky coin is on its way to Afghanistan, the latest leg of an extraordinary journey that spans several decades and seven military deployments