Veterans

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Veterans’ Home of Wyoming in Buffalo has a new administrator. Rich Dunkley grew up in the Story area and graduated from Sheridan High School in 1971. Dunkley takes over the facility after spending the last 30 years working in nursing home management, working as a program director at a rehabilitation hospital over the sub-acute and brain injury programs and as a regional a

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum is seeking help in finding more than 40 photos to match the names of Wyoming service members killed in Vietnam. Photos will be displayed at the Education Center, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington, D.C.

When Wyoming Veterans Welcome Home Day was established, it was to partly make sure that no soldiers returning from war would have to face what Vietnam veterans did in the 1970′s. So it was only fitting to rededicate the Vietnam Memorial at the University of Wyoming on the second annual Welcome Home Day.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead will join in a ceremony to rededicate a Vietnam veterans’ memorial at the University of Wyoming on the afternoon of Friday, March 30th, at 3PM. The memorial is located southwest of Old Main. The ceremony is part of the second annual Wyoming Veterans Welcome Home Day, marking the day in 1973 when the last combat troops left Vietnam and the Wyoming contingent retu

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — People around Wyoming will be encouraged to say thanks to all veterans on March 30, which has been designated Wyoming Veterans Welcome Home Day. This will be the second annual event after Wyoming Veterans Welcome Home Day was codified into state law last year...

Known for their catchy melodies, smooth harmony and driving beats, The Doobie Brothers were one of the most popular and commercially successful bands of the 1970s. Much of this success, and certainly much of that driving beat came in large part from longtime drummer Michael Hossack, who died this week at his home in Dubois, Wyo.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emulating the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, the president Friday will unveil a new jobs program for the nation’s veterans, designed to rebuild roads, levees and trails on public lands. To make the announcement, President Obama will travel across the Potomac to a fire station in Arlington, Virginia, that was one of the first to respond to the Pentagon on Nine-Eleven...

The Wyoming Veterans Commission has a great new website with news and information and it’s the place to go to find out where and when to access a veterans service officer in your area. This month service officers will be out and about help veterans and their families starting tomorrow in Casper and Sundance. ” O ...