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Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 4:32 PM EST
|By Melissa Gaona
United States Air Force Colonel Peter Larsen creates an app to connect communities
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Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 4:51 PM EST
|By Melissa Gaona
Colonel Donna Fore recalls her time at the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks.
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Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 5:09 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
A Gulf War veteran continues to fight for her life
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Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 4:55 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
Once a month, a group of Marines meets for breakfast.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 3:28 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
He enjoys the small things because he knows what it's like to go without.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 4:15 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
A Hometown veteran helping other veterans with the gift of nutritious food
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 1:31 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
Todd Cassell retired with 21 years in the Navy and now runs a successful quilting business with his high school sweetheart.
Updated: May. 30, 2022 at 5:03 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
Help For Our Heroes assists first responders and veterans overcome addiction, depression, suicide, and ptsd.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 4:42 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
Orland Phillips is a World War II veteran and just turned 103 years old
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 4:35 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
An Army veteran found retirement and a wife in the military.
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Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 4:37 PM EST
|By Melissa Gaona
Vietnam Veteran explains his time in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 3:12 PM EST
|By Melissa Gaona
Cold War Veteran Roland Evans Walters describes his time in the service from 1961-1966.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2021 at 5:14 PM EST
|By WDBJ7 Staff
The entire 7@four show was produced live at the Vinton War Memorial on Veterans’ Day 2021.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2021 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
Army veteran Billy Riddle finds community through his new platform The Appalachian Podcast
Updated: Sep. 30, 2021 at 5:47 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
A local Vietnam veteran is not letting anything stop him from pursuing his purpose.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 at 4:59 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
A Roanoke Marine veteran explains how he turned his trials into success
Updated: Jul. 29, 2021 at 5:16 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
A man shares his father's military story in Vietnam to honor his memory.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2021 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
Picture having to be one of the first Black females to enter an all white military unit.
Updated: May. 27, 2021 at 5:03 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
A local veteran says Memorial Day is often taken for granted.
Updated: May. 27, 2021 at 11:30 AM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
When most people think of Bedford’s military, they think of the Bedford Boys, who died on D-Day. But not all Bedford’s heroes are gone.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2021 at 5:33 PM EDT
|By Melissa Gaona
Military families and the sacrifice they make so those who serve can do their jobs
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 5:21 PM EST
|By Melissa Gaona
For one Roanoke native, it was not a choice, but a calling.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2021 at 5:01 PM EST
|By Melissa Gaona
When you first meet Tammy, you’d probably never guess this petite, kind, and generous woman led troops in the United States Army.