Guest post by Eric Livingston, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania Independence Day I love when a photo tells a story. Here's a young woman the night before she is to leave for the Naval Academy. One hundred neighbors gathered in her driveway to see her off with well wishes and stories from when we knew her. She's the oldest...

Shortly after my son deployed to Iraq in 2007, I was approached by another military mother in the community, and she handed me a small lapel pin. "Wear this," she told me. "It shows that you are a mother of a soldier serving in a time of war." I was buckled, at the time. My kid...

We’re multi-tasking with our first post on the Military Family page, as we introduce you the new secretary of Operation Warrior Watch. Let’s hear a round of applause for Rachel Kumler: Rachel is no stranger to military life. She grew up a Navy brat: her father retired from the United States Navy, and her mother retired...