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Discounts & Free Meals For Veterans
Today is Veterans Day, and dozens of restaurants are offering free meals and discounts to active-duty soldiers and veterans. Also, several businesses are giving away free and discounted services....
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Veterans Day Events
8:00 a.m. 15th Annual Veterans Day Breakfast Union Ballroom at Duquesne University 10:00 a.m. Veterans Day Observance Veterans Monument Park in Upper St. Clair 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Free Admission...
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Hundreds Celebrate Veterans At Duquesne University Breakfast
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – With Veterans Day events being held all across the area today, some are quite small, while others fill entire banquet halls. At Duquesne University, hundreds celebrated the veterans...
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Vets And Civilians Honor Those Who Serve At Veterans Day Parade
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Veterans Day Parade is a tradition. It’s a coming together of vets and civilians to honor and remember. “We’ve got to tip our hats to these men and women who are keeping our...
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Baldwin Students Celebrate Veterans Day By Hearing Vets’ Stories
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Generations of veterans passed through the heart of Pittsburgh, in the annual Veterans Day Parade. Young and old lined the parade route, as veterans, young and old, marched past....
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Flag Removal Complaints Prompt Beaver Co. To Reinforce Old Law
BEAVER (KDKA) — Beaver County is reinforcing a law already on the books after complaints about flags being removed by cemetery workers too soon. There have been several complaints at some of the 36...
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Pittsburgh Named No. 1 City For Veterans Starting Out
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Pittsburgh has topped lists as one of the best places to live for several years – and it turns out it’s no different for veterans. Forbes magazine published a list of the best...
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In the Service of Soldiers: Raytheon’s 2014 Week of Service Honors Warfighters
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The tour bus goes quiet as the granite pillars and archways come into view along 17th Street in Washington. An...
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Weekend Events To Clog Pittsburgh Roads
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – If you’re driving through Pittsburgh this weekend, expect some delays and major road closures. Both the EQT 10 Miler race and the 95th Annual Veterans Day Parade will close traffic...
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Pittsburgh Salutes Military Men & Women At Annual Veterans Day Parade
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The 95th Annual Veterans Day Parade in Downtown Pittsburgh gave many people an opportunity to say thank you to the men and women who have served their country in peacetime and in...
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Free Meals For Veterans On Veterans Day
PITTSBURGH (KDKA)- Veterans will have the opportunity to pick up some free meals around the area today. Dozens of restaurants and other businesses will be honoring our veterans and active military...
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Veterans Honored During Special Ceremony At Cemetery Of The Alleghenies
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Veterans Day is a time to pay respect to those who have served our country, both in the past and presently. For people in the Pittsburgh area, it is an especially reverent time....
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Local Veterans Honored At Duquesne University Breakfast
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – President Woodrow Wilson declared Nov. 11, 1919, as Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I. Since then, it has been re-named Veterans Day. This holiday is set aside to...
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Congressman Hopeful New VA Administrator Will Turn Things Around
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Like so many teenagers in the ‘60s, Don Bowers went to Vietnam. He was a boots on the ground infantry man when it happened. “It was December 31, New Year’s Eve day and our company...
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New Engineering Lab Helping Wounded Vets Find New Life
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — They’re wounded Iraq War veterans still suffering from post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries, but they consider themselves fortunate to have survived the improvised...
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WWII Vet Determined To Get Fellow Marine Recognized For His Ultimate Sacrifice
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A local World War II veteran has dedicated his life’s work to getting his former sergeant from the Battle of Iwo Jima recognized for saving his life during the war. That’s been...
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Police: Man Tried To Enter Middle School While Impersonating A Veteran
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A man has been charged after police say he impersonated a veteran in order to get inside a local school. Police say 23-year-old Jonathan Campbell of Uniontown went to Laurel...
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Conversations With Veterans: The Struggle Post Military Life
Photo Credit Thinkstock American women have a long tradition of service in the armed forces, and those numbers have increased significantly in the last decade. Currently, nearly 3% of all front-line...
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Veterans Day on KDKA
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War. Commemorated as Armistice Day the following year,...
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Best Veteran’s Day Drink Specials In Pittsburgh
Photo Credit: Thinkstock Veteran’s Day is Wednesday, November 11th. In order to thank the members past and present of our armed forces, many government offices are closed, which can mean an extra day...
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