On Veterans Day, Boys Town reflects on how its founding father helped those in uniform. Father Edward Flanagan founded his boys' home in 1917, which would later become Boys Town. Thomas Lynch ...

Starting with just a few boys in a rented house, Father Flanagan eventually establishes Boys Town on 200 acres of land 10 miles outside of Omaha, Nebraska. Much of the film focuses on Flanagan's ...

Boys Town was founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan in Omaha in 1917, where it started as a home for wayward boys and over the next century expanded into a nationwide organization that works to ...