Several veterans' support organizations in this area have announced plans to host a special weekend honoring military veterans. It starts November 7th and runs through November 11th.
In late 2010, a local soldier who had just returned home from Afghanistan stopped in to the Thrifty Peanut Book & Media Warehouse in Bossier City. He told owner Jason McLaughlin he had very little reading material while he was overseas, and had to resort to reading shipping cartons and cereal boxes.
The Combat Skyspot Memorial on Barksdale Air Force Base has been redicated -- nearly four years after it was first unveiled. The memorial recognizes nineteen members of the First Combat Evaluation Group who lost their lives in the war in Vietnam.
Six soldiers from around the country are coming to Shreveport-Bossier next weekend for a Wounded Warrior Deer Hunt at Barksdale Air Force Base...and they need your help.
It's had a long and storied history -- spanning more than thirty years -- but the Eighth Air Force Museum is no more! No, it hasn't closed -- it's now the Barksdale Global Power Museum and it's a very popular place.