On the question of admission to Veterans Administration hospitals of service-connected and non-service-connected disabled veterans, it must be recognized that there are many men who are greatly affected by war service.

On June 1, 1954, this signing ceremony changed Armistice Day to Veterans Day.

" On August 9, 1921, President Harding signed legislation known as the " Sweet Bill ", which established the Veterans Bureau as a new agency.

On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.

On December 8, 2008, President Barack Obama announced he would nominate retired army General Eric Shinseki to be the 7th Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

On Veterans Day, November 11, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon asked the Senate to ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons.

On 10 August 1994 construction began on the All Conflicts ' Veterans War Memorial on the site of the old POW / MIA memorial on the western end of Eglin Boulevard.

The Foxbrook Finance Unit is located near Humble in an unincorporated area ; On Monday May 10, 2008, the Foxbrook post office was dedicated as the " Texas Military Veterans Post Office " in a ceremony hosted by U. S. Congressperson Ted Poe.

As he aged, Gielgud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee ( Tiny Alice ), Alan Bennett ( Forty Years On ), Charles Wood ( Veterans ), Edward Bond ( Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare ), David Storey ( Home ), and Harold Pinter ( No Man's Land ), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame, saying that the play offered " nothing but loneliness and despair ".

On September 24, 2002 the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center ( originally the Bong ' World War II Heritage Center ') opened to the public in Superior, Wisconsin.

On March 9, 2006, President Bush signed as, which renewed the Patriot Act and amended the Presidential Succession Act to include the Secretary of Homeland Security in the line of succession after the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (§ 503 ).

On February 25, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled 2-1 that Frank Gaylord, sculptor of a portion of the Korean War Veterans Memorial, was entitled to compensation when an image of that sculpture was used on a 37 cent postage stamp because he had not signed away his intellectual property rights to the sculpture when it was erected.

On March 29, 2008, The Los Angeles Times reported that, " The California company headed by former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi overcharged the agency some $ 6 million under a long-term contract to conduct physical evaluations on veterans applying for disability benefits " in a recent government audit.

On August 25, 1965, he entered the Veterans Hospital in Sawtelle, California, for treatment of cirrhosis of the liver.

On November 19, 2003, the thirteen-member jury – which included Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and deputy mayor Patricia Harris – selected eight finalists.

On induction day at Cooperstown he only made it as far into his prepared remarks as thanking the Veterans Committee voters for choosing a player based largely on defensive skills ( a rarity ) before becoming so emotional he had to stop.

On February 2, 2009, he was appointed as Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs by Governor Steve Beshear.

On March 17, 2003, at around 12: 30 p. m. ( EST ), Watson, wearing a military helmet and displaying an upside down American flag, drove a John Deere tractor towing two vehicles into a shallow pond in Constitution Gardens near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.

On November 13 of the same year, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall was also dedicated within Constitution Gardens.

On February 3, 2011, the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and the United States Navy Memorial co-hosted a special program at the Memorial, in Washington, D. C.

On September 28, he had the final hit in Veterans Stadium ( a single against Jason Marquis ) in a 5 – 2 loss to Atlanta.

On 12 June 2010, Veterans of the 51st Highland Division attended a commemorative ceremony for the 70th Anniversary of the battle at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux.

On May 15, 1955, the Walt Whitman Bridge opened, helping to gain papularity of Veterans Stadium, The Spectrum, and other South Philadelphia attractions.

On April 13, 1986, while approaching his car after leaving a meeting at the Veterans & Friends Social Club on 86th St. in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Frank DeCicco was killed by a car bomb explosion.

On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.

On Election Day -- November 4 -- he energetically marshalled his force of bludgeon men, bribers, and experts in forging repeat votes.

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

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