With proximity to Fort Belvoir and Quantico, Prince William Humane Society embarks on a new "warrior buddies" program that helps homeless dogs to find homes and and wounded veterans to find companion service animals.

Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) has introduced H.R. 3792 to repeal the provision in the Bipartisan Budget Act, H.J.Res. 59, affecting military retirees and has written a letter to House Armed Services Committee Chairman McKeon, asking for his commitment to address this issue before it goes into effect at the end of 2014.

US Senators from Virginia, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, have introduced legislation they say will repeal and replace the Bipartisan Budget Act provisions that propose to cut military pensions for working-age military retirees by 1 percent beginning in January 2015.

Manassas Lioness Lions Club and Daughters of the Confederacy added the Manassas Confederate Cemetery on Center Street to 500+ cemeteries participating in Wreaths Across America. On Saturday, December 14th at noon sharp, all of these cemeteries will be honoring our fallen heroes at the same time.

the United States Army Band’s, American Holiday Festival concert scheduled for TONIGHT at 7:30 p.m. at Brucker Hall on Fort Myer in Arlington, Va. has been rescheduled to Saturday, December 14 at 7:30 p.m.

North American Aerospace Defense Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region (CONR), will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 14-02 Monday night and into Tuesday morning in the Washington, D.C. area between midnight and 2 a.m. (EST).

Prince William County Public Schools salutes our nation’s heroes on Veterans Day, November 11. The Armistice, which halted the fighting during World War I, was signed on November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m., known as “the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.”

A Veterans Day Celebration will be held at Veterans Memorial Park in Woodbridge VA on Friday, November 8 from 9 a.m. to noon.