Then they attempted to promote someone who was deeply embroiled in the crisis as head of veterans health services. … And to celebrate that the culture had changed, the VA ran a victory lap:
The Department of Veterans Affairs is promoting an administrator … It doesn’t matter to them if veterans die while awaiting appointments.…
Enter Bruce Sprinsteen and the “Concert for Valor” concert on the National Mall held in conjunction with Veterans Day. … You can’t denigrate the nation and claim to honor the veterans who served her. … You can’t malign veterans and hold any claim to having respect for our nation.
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Civil War veterans were hastily demobilized and newspapers and popular fiction featured the opium addicted, criminally inclined veteran … in a rather stunning preview of how veterans were viewed after Vietnam. … Indeed, the modern place held in society by veterans is something that is very new to America and reflects the experience of World…
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He’s also the father of three servicemen, with two being combat veterans and one a wounded warrior. … No doubt, North Carolina is a military state, with 130,000 men and women on active-duty, and 774,000 military veterans who call the…
and why they matter, let me give you a brief summary of it, and then I’ll explain why it’s a matter of huge significance for our veterans … Our federal gov’t owes our veterans and active duty members of the military answers to these questions. … Forty veterans at the Phoenix, AZ VA alone died while waiting for treatment for serious health conditions.…
group called Concerned Veterans for America. … Concerned Veterans says it does not favor privatization of veterans health care. … The veterans organizations lose a cash cow.…
The woeful neglect of our nation’s veterans should be a shame on the head of every taxpayer and every lawmaker. … When we have a record number of homeless, and many of them are veterans, it should be looked upon as nothing less than criminal.…
action and has already been rehired at another veterans center, the Tulsa World has learned. … The Department of Veterans Affairs has for years assigned star ratings for each of its medical centers based on the quality of care … “My concern is that veterans are going to see that their hospital is a ‘one’ in our star system, assume that’s bad quality and veterans…
Taya Kyle, wife of the “Legend”, Chris Kyle of American Sniper fame, was out showing her support for our veterans and their families … Read our blog or listen to Wreaths Across America Radio, the 24/7 internet radio station with stories for and about our veterans, their…
time the Feds wanted to impose Obamacare, we already had two decades-long visual aides of government medicine – Medicare and the Veterans … : “One year after outrage about long waiting lists for health care shook the Department of Veterans Affairs, the agency is facing a … new crisis: The number of veterans on waiting lists of one month or more is now 50 percent higher than it was during the height of…
