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Reflections On Our Pow’s And MiA’s

Reflecting on our nation’s POW’s and MIA’s, disabled veteran and United Spinal COB, Thomas Cooke, pays tribute to these gallant men and women.

Blue Water Veterans Sunk By Federal Appeals Court

Blue Water Veterans sunk by Federal Appeals Court. Did Congress make it easier or tougher for Blue Water Vets to establish service connection for an Agent Orange-related disease?

VA Issues Updated Veterans Benefits Handbook

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently published an updated edition of the Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents handbook.
The handbook is revised every year to reflect the most current VA benefits and health care programs and services, as well as the rates for certain benefits payments. The 2008 version of the handbook [...]

Employment Discrimination Against Disabled Veterans

When a disabled veteran gets well enough to rejoin the workforce, it’s a slap in the face to run into employment discrimination. The honorable men and women who have become disabled in the service of our country deserve our support in every way.
Often the best healing agent is to return to the workforce with [...]

Veterans Sue Government Over Mental Health Services

By Aaron Glantz
“(IPS/GIN) – Two veterans groups sued the Department of Veterans Affairs Monday for alleged “shameful failures” to help veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The lawsuit, which was filed by Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans [...]

Support the Veterans’ Benefits Protection Act, H.R. 1318

Action alert from: Disabled American Veterans

Action Type: Letter to Representative.

In the final hours of last year’s session, the 109th Congress passed its major benefits bill for the year, which became Public Law 109-461. Despite strong objections by the DAV and other veterans organizations, Senator Larry Craig used his position as then Chairman of the Senate [...]

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