The chant of “Geaux Pokes” echoes in the stands of Navarre Stadium every Saturday night, but on “Victory Day,” instead of rooting for the cowboy players, kids with special needs got to live out their ...

Rhode Island was always an outlier with its Victory Day observance: in 1953 the AP inaccurately called it “the only state in the union that voted to make V-J a legal holiday,” though two years ...

He signed a proclamation on Wednesday that designates May 8, 2025, as a “day in celebration of Victory Day for World War II.” He's expected to issue a similar proclamation for World War I ...

(Some websites claim Victory Day used to be a federal holiday, too, but that appears to be a myth – there is no evidence for it in an authoritative 1999 U.S. Senate report on the topic.) ...

I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I,” he said last week on social media. “We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of ...