Howard Somers and Jean Somers are the parents of California Army National Guard Sgt. Daniel Somers, who took his life in June, 2013, after suffering for nearly a decade with Post Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Gulf War Syndrome subsequent to serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Contamination at a former Soviet and Uzbek military base used by the U.S. Armed Forces in the early 2000s may be responsible for incidence of cancer among veterans.
President Donald Trump traveled Monday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to pay respects to two U.S. soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan when a soldier dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire with a machine gun.