In 1866, the Grand Army of the Republic was organized to fill that need. Admission was limited to veterans of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and the Revenue Cutter Service (the predecessor to today ...

Ahram Online provides live coverage of the unfolding military confrontation between Israel and Iran as the two sides waged ...

Ahram Online provides live coverage of the unfolding military confrontation between Israel and Iran as the two sides waged ...

Today, only two Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Halls remain in Minnesota, though there were once over a hundred throughout the state. Photojournalist Bill Middeke visited one of the remaining ...

Israel asserts it had to launch its airstrike campaign to stop Iran from getting closer to being able to build a nuclear weapon. It came as Iran and the United States had been negotiating over the pos ...

After the end of the Civil War, Benjamin Stephenson in Decatur, Illinois, founded a veteran’s group known as the Grand Army of the Republic. It was organized as a brotherhood for Union veterans ...

The holiday was originally dedicated to the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War by the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans led by Major General John A. Logan ...

Elsewhere Monday, hundreds of people walked up the Avenue of Flags to the Grand Army of the Republic section of Bluff City Cemetery for Elgin’s annual Memorial Day program. The event has been ...

Over time, Memorial Day’s origin story became associated with the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), an organization of Union veterans that established Decoration Day as a national observance on ...

Memorial Day, one of the United States' first federal holidays in several months, is almost here. For many, it marks the unofficial start of summer as pools and outdoor activities open up, even ...

Word spread about the annual observations, and in 1868 John Logan, the commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, moved the date to May. “General John Logan laid out May 30th as the ...