Army Sgt Bryan Ball (ret) was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds he received during his second combat tour in Afghanistan in 2009.  Bryan was hit with an improvised explosive device resulting in shrapnel throughout his body.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Mike Panus can’t begin to describe how happy he is to be working at FEMA. He called it a job that helped give him his life back. “A financial struggle is not a good struggle to have in life,” he said. “It’s a very stressful one.” And it’s a...

Like most people, Victor Almodovar wanted to accomplish the goal of earning his college degree. He was a Puerto Rican American with very little knowledge of the English language and needed to advance his education not only to improve his standing within the U.S. Navy,...