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Hometown Heroes

Hometown Heroes

What does it take to be a hero? Courage? Honor? A commitment to serve others? Heroes may wear a uniform…or not. Join us as we salute…Hometown Heroes.

Circle A Home For Horses is a non-profit organization that rescues and rehabilitates over 45 horses in their pastures. Each volunteer (mostly Navy sailors) takes time out of their days each week to feed, groom, and ride each horse...
Katherine G. Johnson, a human super computer and brilliant mathematician, calculated trajectories and played a major key role in the U.S. space flight program, including the Apollo 11 moon landing. She lived a remarkable life as being one of...
In 1607, the "first landing" of 104 English settlers was in Cape Henry, named after Prince Henry of England at the time. This had marked the beginning of the American Colony history. On September 5, 1781, The Battle of...
As several thousand volunteers along the Commonwealth come together for this special day, hundreds of miles of shore lines and streams are cleaned fro debris and litter by the tons. 3500 volunteers gathered at about 200 different sites all...
On May 31, 2019....tragedy struck too close to home. A shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center left 12 dead and 4 injured and hospitalized. First responders were there in minutes. The shooter, who allegedly carried and armed with...
The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is an aircraft carrier and the second ship to bear the 16th United States President's name. She laid keel in Newport News, VA on November 3rd, 1984, was christened four years later, and commissioned...
Fort Story is a training facility for the Marines, Army and Navy here in Virginia. It is for "logistic-over-the-shore" operations that train troops into practicing the transfer of military cargo from ship to shore and also on special equipment...
1945. The Final Solution. What a tragic time in history; not just to Germany, but the entire world. The Holocaust is one of the most painful and heartbreaking events in our history that we hope to never relive and...
In Quantico of July 1918, two kite balloons were flown to search artillery fire; thus beginning Aviation. Today, Marine Corps Air Facility in Quantico executes a "no fail" mission to support HMX-1 and their Presidential lift mission. The MCAF did...
Join us as we visit Fort Story in Virginia Beach, the home of the first federal construction project authorized by President George Washington after the Revolutionary War. We'll meet a group of medical professionals who have created a way...