VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A Virginia Beach family is preparing to close the chapter on a decades-old mystery. Wilbur Mitts grew up near Monterey, California in the town of Seaside before enlisting ...

There are two days in the life of a 9-year-old that she will never forget: the day her dad went off to war and the day he didn’t come back. “I remember it like it was yesterday. We drove him to the ...

When Doug Ellis announced he planned to run 7 Ironmans in 7 cities in 7 days, many people were shocked, but his family was not. They watched him train for the feat, and on Saturday evening, Ellis ...

Fathers, mothers and wives share the poignant final letters of troops killed in Iraq in the documentary, Last Letters Home: Voices of American... Just before Christmas last year, Pfc. Holly McGeogh, a ...

An incredibly poignant last letter home from a tragic Tommy to his army veteran dad days before he was killed in the First ...

On Last Letters Home, News 12 is honoring local heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice. Service men and women have written millions of war letters that express their fears, dreams for the future and ...

On May 24, 1862, Capt. Levi Coman wrote a letter from a hospital in Tennessee. It is the last in existence. Fortunately, his wife furnished more details in her book, “Memories of Martha Seymour Coman” ...