war veterans
Former military combatants
War veterans are people who have served in armed forces during wartime.
The term emphasizes combat experience or wartime service rather than military service generally: War veterans gathered at the memorial on the anniversary of the battle.
Veterans often receive special benefits, recognition, or support from governments and communities.
The phrase sometimes carries connotations of sacrifice, trauma, or hard-won experience.
- military serviceDuty in armed forces
- disability benefitsPayments for those unable to work
- commemorationsActs honoring past events
- war storiesNarratives of military experience
- old soldiersFormer military personnel
remembrance · welcome home · thank you for your service · GI Bill · therapy · valor · bravery · Victory Day · PTSD · shell shock · service · courage · heroism · soldiers · anxiety · support group · Agent Orange · army
- notablesleaders, celebrities, dignitary, rulers, VIPs
- Veteransvets, VA, retired soldier, ex-serviceman, combat vet
- Soviet WarGreat Patriotic War, Eastern Front, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Berlin, Operation Barbarossa
- veterans groupsAmerican Legion, VFW, post, adjutant, membership drive
- War RemembranceCenotaph, war memorial, Remembrance Day, poppies, poppy
- WWII EraTuskegee Airmen, code talkers, POWs, Purple Heart recipients, Holocaust survivors
war veteranscivilians
Non-military population
pacifists · conscientious objectors · draft dodgers · non-combatants · civilian population
war veteranswar victims
Those harmed by conflict
civilian casualties · refugees · displaced persons · war orphans · prisoners of war
warfare, veteran, warring, warlike, wartime, veterans, warmonger, warmongering, war veteran