Home sweet home.
Today is Veterans Day, and to celebrate the land of the free and the home of the brave, here are some pictures of the men and women of America's armed forces being welcomed back from overseas to the opened arms of their loved ones. The touching homecoming embraces are so sentimental I bet you'll break out into "God Bless America" before the end of the album! Read more
Today is Veterans Day and to commemorate the day I thought we should cover where the fitness world and the military collide and that's the ever-popular boot camp. I talked recently with vet Ruben Belliard, co owner of Warrior Fitness Boot Camp in NYC. A former Marine (but I think Ruben would say once a Marine always a Marine), Ruben met his business partner Alex Fell at basic training, and now Read more
Color me impressed. It's hard enough to find a good-looking accent chair for under $300, but Overstock's Hero Chair ($250) does just that. And even better? $50 of that price tag is actually directly donated to the Wounded Warrior Project, a program which serves the wounded men and women of the United States armed forces by raising awareness, enlisting public aid, and providing programs to meet Read more
In honor of Veterans Day, which is commemorated today, many people wear poppies on their lapels. Ever wonder how this tradition originated? The poppies are an image from Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields," which was written during World War I. The poppies in the poem reference those that grew in the battlefields and cemeteries in Flanders. Make sure to read the poem if Read more
Happy Veterans Day! Check out more happy reunion videos over at mental floss. Read more
Today is Veterans Day to honor the men and women who have served this country, but have you stopped to consider who serves the soldiers if they go overseas and have no human family members to watch over animals in their absence? Well, that's where NetPets's MilitaryPetsFOSTER Project comes in. The nonprofit has a huge database of foster homes in all 50 states as well as several foreign countries Read more
Yesterday members of the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment's Old Guard held a wreath of more than 700 red silk poppies marked with the words "Lafayette, We Are Here" at Arlington National Cemetery, honoring the 116,516 Americans killed in the First World War. While you're not expected to hang such a massive wreath on Veterans Day — though I applaud you if you have! — I'm sure some of you Read more
Nations around the world celebrate the brave men and women who served their countries. In America, today marks Veterans Day. Stories about Americans working to honor veterans by improving their quality of life have special resonance today. Homes For Troops provides specially adapted homes for those wounded in combat, free of charge. And one New York farm offers horseback riding as a form of Read more
Up in the Napa Valley, where gourmands rule the roost, Veterans Day is celebrated with a celebrity-chef luncheon honoring the veterans in the area. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I want to honor our country's brave vets with a little round of posts about boot camps. That is as militaristic as it gets here at FitSugar. Boot-camp workout programs are popping up all over and if you want to Read more
Today is Veterans Day, and if you're looking for a great way to honor the veterans in your life, then whip up a batch of these Chocolate Sable Red Remembrance Poppies. — Bron Marshall Read more
