Decades after their fathers served in Vietnam, children living with disabilities are fighting for benefits that VA provides to children of women who served in the same war.

Watching my mother’s glossy wooden casket covered with yellow roses being lowered into the ground when I was only 10 taught me death’s brutal weight. Ever since, I’ve struggled to understand how ...

Children are falling from military housing windows. Why did the Pentagon loosen its interpretation of a 2017 law meant to protect them?

The War Horse reports on the U.S. military and veterans issues, exposing the true cost of military service and rebuilding America’s reporting ecosystem to inspire an informed citizenry that holds the ...

The email came last fall while James Harter was on vacation with his husband in Quebec City, Canada. He was checking his computer in their RV when he read the no-nonsense subject line: Certificate of ...

The midsummer heat reflected off the flightline at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina. It was the summer of 1990 and the beginning of Operation Desert Shield. The entire base was in full ...

Being a Marine and later an international aid and human rights worker taught me how to read a room. Vietnam. Beirut. Somalia. Bosnia. Rwanda. Iraq. Afghanistan. Survival depended on noticing what ...

I spent too many restless nights in a hot, wood-paneled room in my parents’ double-wide, taking self-soothing shots of five-buck Paul Masson brandy, and wondering how in the hell I ended up there. My ...

Active-duty service members and veterans thinking of harming themselves can get free crisis care. Contact the Military Crisis Line at 988, then press 1, or access online chat by texting 838255. In the ...

Carlos Morales was a few drinks in late one evening when he first contacted his local Coast Guard recruiting office, but when he woke up the next day, he did not regret his late-night submission. He ...

Editor’s note: This is a special edition of The War Horse’s “Under the Wire” newsletter. Each week, we tap into Operation Timeline, our ongoing recap of the Trump administration’s impact on the ...