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S&S: East TN patriot honored by French

2:36 PM, Jan 23, 2012

The French Government bestowed its highest honor on East Tennessee Veteran Harold Davis.

Two East TN Veterans receive high honor from French government

9:06 AM, Jan 13, 2012

The French Government honored two East Tennessee military Veterans with one of their country's highest awards on Thursday.

Service & Sacrifice: A Look Back at 2011

9:52 PM, Jan 5, 2012

The video compilation looks back at 2011 and our stories about East Tennessee veterans.

Service & Sacrifice: Christmas Surrounded by Enemy

9:22 PM, Dec 22, 2011

One WWII veteran we spoke to from East Tennessee spent a Christmas overseas surrounded by the enemy.

Service and Sacrifice: Homefront tragedy leaves scars

6:53 PM, Dec 8, 2011

When we picture injuries suffered at war, more often than not they are physical wounds.

Service & Sacrifice: Military Memories Lost & Found

9:32 PM, Nov 17, 2011

This week we resurrect memories and traditions tied to honoring military veterans here in East Tennessee.

Service & Sacrifice: Minorities & the Military

9:10 PM, Nov 10, 2011

The past couple weeks we have introduced our viewers to black veterans of WWII and Vietnam. In our latest interview we connect with current military recruiter SSgt. Mullins. We learn more about his experience as a black man in the military and his concerns about the shrinking number of minorities signing up to serve in the modern Army.

Service & Sacrifice: Cotton Fields, War, & Higher Education

4:14 PM, Nov 3, 2011

Long before he earned a doctorate in mathematics from an Ivy League college, Robert Harvey spent his youth picking cotton in Mississippi.

Service & Sacrifice: Drafted for Mayor & for Vietnam

12:09 AM, Oct 28, 2011

You may know Mayor Brown is a native Knoxville and graduate of Austin High School. Perhaps you have heard about his long career in the US Postal Service. But he doesn't often talk much about his career in the military.

Service & Sacrifice: TN Guard stares down "The Bear"

6:11 AM, Oct 21, 2011

Back in the early 1960's a few hundred airmen based in East Tennessee helped change the landscape of a tense political battle.

Service & Sacrifice: "TN Blue Star Moms" Seeing Red

9:15 PM, Oct 6, 2011

The process tied to obtaining a "Blue Star License Plate" has some military families seeing red.

Service & Sacrifice: Dual Theatre WWII Veteran

8:22 PM, Sep 22, 2011

East Tennessee Army veteran James Brennan served in both major theatres of World War II.

Service & Sacrifice: 1998 Vols, 9/11, & The Navy

9:12 PM, Sep 8, 2011

The urge to do something meaningful after 9/11 led many young men and women straight to the nearest military recruiter.
University of Tennessee graduate Nathan Weinbaum was one of them.

Service & Sacrifice: WWII Sweater, Back in Knoxville

9:18 PM, Aug 18, 2011

A sweater returned home to the Knoxville office of the Red Cross after close to sixty years.

Service & Sacrifice: Veterans Face Higher Risk of ALS

8:54 PM, Aug 4, 2011

Baseball legend Lou Gehrig has been the face of the muscle killing disease ALS for more than seventy years. But in this modern era the new face could easily be America's military veterans.

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