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Father and son outdoors, measuring wood soon to be cut for a wood working project.

Discounts & Benefits

WeSalute Review: Maximize Your Savings with the Home Depot Military Buyer’s Guide

Home Depot deeply appreciates the service of U.S. veterans, active-duty service members, and their spouses, and offers a 10% military discount on eligible purchases. This latest WeSalute Review is a buyer’s guide designed to help you navigate and maximize this valuable benefit, and based on WeSalute’s 25+ years of experience speaking with members who review and redeem military discounts. 
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Discounts & Benefits

WeSalute Review: CVS Buyer’s Guide for Military & Veterans

Here at WeSalute we understand stretching every dollar is important to our nation’s military, veterans, and their family members. That's why we've created this CVS Buyer's Guide highlighting some of the great products you can save on. WeSalute+ members receive an exclusive 20% sitewide discount and free shipping through CVS! So, in need of a convenient gift for a friend or family member? Look no further than our CVS Buyer’s Guide.
 World War II veterans

Military & Veterans Life

Cover Story: With the Death of John Kinsel Sr., Only Two Navajo Code Talkers of World War II Are Still Alive

John Kinsel Sr., one of last remaining Navajo Code Talkers from World War II, passed away peacefully on October 19, 2024 at the age of 107. His life embodied the importance of the Navajo Code Talkers in U.S. military history. They transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe's native Diné bizaad language in a code that Japanese cryptologists were unable to break.
Heroes Meet Heroes 2024

Military & Veterans Life

Cover Story: Heroes Meet Heroes 2024

On November 7, WeSalute held its fifth streaming of the “Heroes Meet Heroes” event, where military heroes meet Olympic heroes. Moderated by WeSalute co-founder and Chairman Scott Higgins, the annual conversation was started 12 years ago by WeSalute CEO Lin Higgins. It celebrates both the military and sports successes and similarities across two panel discussions. This year’s session was dedicated to Captain Paul “Bud” Bucha, a Medal of Honor recipient and longtime member of the WeSalute Advisory Board who passed away this year at the age of 80.
Cover Story: Medal of Honor trends

Military & Veterans Life

Cover Story: Medal of Honor Trends

On October 17, 2005, near Samarra, Iraq, Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. Cashe retrieved six Soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter from the burning vehicle, receiving burns on nearly 72% of his body. He died less than a month later. Recently, he was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic acts of valor - the first Black veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to earn the decoration.
Sgt. Frank Charrow

Military & Veterans Life

Cover Story: Sgt. Frank Charrow lost and found

Editor’s Note: General Bell is the former Commanding General 220th Military Police Brigade (Army Reserve), USMA Graduate Class 1957, Graduate of Army and National War Colleges and is the author of more than 300 military, domestic and foreign publications.  He is also the most published free-lance writer in the 20th Century to the oldest military journal in the world still being published, the Austrian OeMZ. In this Cover Story, he gives a little-known historical perspective of D-Day, the Allied Forces attack on Normandy Beach nearly 75 years ago.