U.S. Army Archives - Bloom Magazine

John Thiel: Disabled Veteran Activist

Disabled by a leg injury he received in Vietnam, John Thiel retired from the U.S. Army and enrolled at Indiana University in 1971, almost…

October 2, 2019

Gene Shipp, who turned 100 in March, is an Army veteran of three major wars: World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam…

April 8, 2019

Forty years ago, Mike Long walked into a Florida leather shop and asked for a job. The owner asked if he knew how to…

August 22, 2018

Lynn Wilson pens theme party cookbook to help military families.

January 2, 2017

BY MIKE LEONARD, PHOTOGRAPHY BY TYAGAN MILLER Two days into his deployment in eastern Baghdad in October 2006, United States Army Major Mike Ogden’s…

December 9, 2015