Last year I founded a project called the VetCard Campaign to get young people and adults to create cards and letters of support and appreciation for our older military veterans, with the main focus right now on the Second World War generation.

I am hoping this year to expand the project...read more

All these years later, the railway men still do not sleep soundly. Every three months or so, the same two nightmares haunt Fred Seiker. In the first, a Japanese guard in a PoW camp thrusts a rifle in his face. He is tied down with barbed wire as the guard forces water into his mouth through a...read more

A 91-year-old World War II veteran will be honoured for his bravery… by the Russians. Canon Colin Craston, of Lever Park Avenue, Horwich, will receive a medal from the Russian Federation for his service in Arctic convoys. The medal, with the presentation at Manchester Town Hall on 13 October, is...read more

The Legend Continues!!!!! I ask you to not forget the sacrifices that these men have done to preserve our freedom. "Remember us" These were the words of Jack Womer of the Demolition Platoon of the Regimental HQ Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division....read more