Category: In Memoriam

The retired Ventura County Superior Court judge who started several specialty court programs for veterans, the mentally ill and others died this month.  Judge Colleen Toy White died Aug. 10 amid her second battle with cancer. She was 77, said Arthur Bliss, her husband of 20 years. Over the past year and a half, White had been […]

A highly decorated Simi Valley Marine known for his “larger-than-life” personality was killed during a mission against an Islamic State stronghold in north central Iraq, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, a critical-skills operator from Simi Valley, and Capt. Moises A. Navas, a special operations officer from Germantown, Maryland, suffered fatal […]

Honoring Our Fallen:  CalVet honors members of the U.S. Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice for our great nation. Efforts continue to bring home those who went missing in action, including 72,906 American service members unaccounted for from World War II, 7,699 from the Korean War and 1,594 from the Vietnam War. Early last week, […]

NEW YORK — Americans looked back on 9/11 Tuesday with tears and somber tributes as President Donald Trump hailed “the moment when America fought back” on one of the hijacked planes used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Victims’ relatives said prayers for their country, pleaded for national unity and pressed […]