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Veterans Affairs

A story of service and strength

2025-08-14
By: John Griggs
On: August 14, 2025
In: History, Military, Veterans Affairs

By Wyatt Anthony VA Public Affairs Specialist “All of a sudden, the firecrackers began. Submarines were hitting those ships — men screaming, fire, burning . . .” That’s how Lee O. McKinnon remembers the morning of the North Africa invasion in 1942, when the 17-year-old Navy steward stood on theContinue Reading

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