The State of Missouri provides skilled care homes for its veterans, working with the V-A, and sometimes it’s free. Ashley Byrd spoke with Becky McCann, a longtime nurse at the Missouri Veterans Commission home in Mt. Vernon. She is a veteran herself and explains...
The cost of cleaning and maintaining grave markers at veterans’ cemeteries in Missouri is covered by a state fund. There is no similar fund for military vets buried in public or private cemeteries. Marshall Griffin tells us that would change under legislation...
Imagine losing your home, your job, your school, everything you’ve worked for, not because of anything you did, but because of who you are. That was the reality for thousands of Japanese American families during World War II. A new exhibition at the St. Louis Kaplan...
Rocky Sickmann grew up in a small town in Missouri and joined the Marines after graduating from high school. He had no idea he would be the center of world attention when the U-S embassy in Iran would fall, he would be taken hostage, and eventually there would be an...
A Kansas City-area organization strives to restore the dignity and self-worth of homeless veterans. Alisa Nelson talks to Debbie Childress, who launched Valor Ranch after her time as a military spouse showed her the need to help veterans re-enter civilian life with...
