The number of D-Day veterans still alive is presumably dwindling quickly, except there are still some alive to tell the tale, the Associated … Veterans are already treated as second-class citizens in some instances in this country, and the least the president can do is declare … It should be pretty easy for the White House, of all places, not to insult elderly veterans, but they even managed to mess that up.…
Carson, at the Atlanta one, was supposed to honor wounded veterans at a non-profit event. … Instead, he turned the speech into a speech about himself and his fight with the President, giving only the end of the speech to veterans … I thought it inappropriate that he turned a non-profit, non-partisan, non-political speech on veterans into something on himself.…
Get people to stop talking about the festering Veterans Administration scandal. … The swap occurred weeks after CNN first reported that dozens of U.S. veterans had died while waiting for health care at hospitals and … that the Veterans Affairs managers had concocted a scheme to hide this problem…
Put Congress on the defensive.…
The number of Americans killed is not trivial:
Michael Pregent, director of the advocacy organization Veterans Against the Deal, … keeping information detrimental to Iran’s Quds force and [IRGC Leader] Qasem Soleimani from the American people is an affront to veterans…
It’s been over a year since the Veterans’ Affairs healthcare scandal broke, and despite promises of change from the Obama administration … Katherine Mitchell said nurses lacked the proper training in medical triage, and 110 veterans “experienced dangerous delays in care … It’s a disgrace that we are failing our nation’s veterans this way.…
there were those in the media and around the country who were a bit stunned, and perhaps even put off by this answer, my fellow veterans … We veterans are also more likely to have a fuller picture of my father’s record. He’s the man who gave us the post-9/11 GI Bill.…
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SANDERS: Jim and I, under Jim’s leadership, as he indicated, passed the most significant veterans education bill in recent … We followed suit with a few years later passing, under my leadership, the most significant veterans’ health care legislation in the … with whom he maintains a bona fide family relationship; deferred because of extreme hardship to dependents]
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Affairs recently released a report showing there has been an increase in suicides among young veterans. … Veterans and service members in general have a higher rate of suicide than the civilian U.S. population. … We know from VA’s testimony that fourteen of those twenty veterans have not sought medical care at VA – meaning that only 30% of veterans…
This Veterans Day, Sgt. … Social studies teacher Mark Jackson organized an all-school assembly Veterans Day event at Roton Middle School. … At the assembly, the veterans gave speeches but also heard from the students.…
Happy Veterans Day and thank you to all who have served! … Since it’s Veterans Day, let’s tell the story. … So, this Veterans Day, as always, I honor our military service members and our fallen troops.…
