Centenarian Steve Ellis was barely 16 when he joined the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Tulane University—months before the U.S. entered World War II. Before t ...

Sanford L. Jones, drafted as a teen, fought fascism with valor in World War II and came home to college on the GI Bill. He turns 100 on Sept. 22.

Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a ...

As wrestling great Ric Flair famously said, to be the man, you gotta beat the man. Defending national champion Ohio State is still the man in college football.

The lean, bespectacled veteran from Kentucky sat silently in the early evening of Aug. 14 on a stage in the cavernous U.S.