Large numbers of Jewish immigrants, many of them World War II veterans and Holocaust survivors now began arriving in the new state of Israel, and many joined the IDF.

* 1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge ; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

Other interviews focus on a specific period or a specific event in people's lives, such as in the case of war veterans or survivors of a hurricane.

Similarly, a meta-analysis of five studies of group psychotherapy for adult sexual abuse survivors showed moderate to strong effect sizes, and there is also good evidence for effectiveness with chronic traumatic stress in war veterans.

With a total 2009 budget of about $ 87. 6 billion, VA employs nearly 280, 000 people at hundreds of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, clinics, and benefits offices and is responsible for administering programs of veterans ’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors.

As of 2010, there were 2612 veterans or survivors in Hopkins County receiving $ 11, 722, 000 from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Most of those who successfully evaded the US fighter screens were aviators who were seasoned veterans of the six-month Japanese advance early in the Pacific war, the South Pacific campaign and survivors of the Battle of Midway.

Some of them Holocaust survivors and others veterans from World War II.

* The Social Security Act was amended ( 1946 ) to provide coverage to private maritime employees under State unemployment insurance, monthly benefits under old age and survivors insurance for survivors of certain World War II veterans, and temporary unemployment benefits to seamen with wartime Federal employment.

Over the years the Hurricane Monument has been cared for by local veterans, hurricane survivors, and descendants of the victims.

After the Civil War, the United States Congress passed legislation that greatly extended the scope of pension coverage for veterans and for their survivors and dependents, notably their widows and orphans.

The federal government also runs the Veterans Administration, which provides care to retired or disabled veterans, their families, and survivors through medical centers and clinics.

It commemorates those who died in WWII and pays tribute to survivors and veterans.

Following the end of the Civil War, the United States Congress passed legislation that greatly extended the scope of pension coverage for both veterans and for their survivors and dependents, notably their widows and orphans.

Currently, MAPS has been given a Schedule I license to conduct research with MDMA on veterans and survivors of physical or sexual assault who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, as well as with advanced-stage cancer patients who are experiencing anxiety associated with this diagnosis, the first licenses the DEA has granted for MDMA psychotherapy research.

The public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the representative sample of a population, while consumer opinion is the similar aggregate collected as part of marketing research, and group opinion is collected from group of subjects, such as members of some sociological strata, profession, veterans, childhood trauma survivors etc.

The name change reflects the expansion of the organization's mission to include all types of survivors of global conflict and war, including United States service members and veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The name change reflects the expansion of their mission to include all types of survivors of global conflict and war, including United States service members and veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After World War 2 veterans were welcomed as part of their readjustment and Holocaust survivors began using the baths as part of their healing process.

Other accounts include first-person testimonies of Nanking Massacre survivors, eyewitness reports of journalists ( both Western and Japanese ), as well as the field diaries of military personnel.

* May 20 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705, a Boeing 720-040B on an inaugural flight carrying mostly journalists and owners of travel agencies and crewed by what the airline considered its best crew members, crashes short of the runway while descending to land at Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 119 of the 125 people on board and injuring all six survivors.

Gemma, who was held in Block II of the camp and assigned prisoner # 44139, was one of the few survivors of this camp and wrote about her time at Ravensbrück with great clarity.

There is a brief epilogue sequence in which the fates of the six only known survivors are shown: Sydney underwent surgery on his kneecap injuries and lives as a horticulturist with his son Seymour, Arthur received an OBE for lifelong service to the theatre and retired to the country, Sebastian wrote a book about the film's events and is currently negotiating the film rights.

In Cuzco in 1589, Don Mancio Serra de Leguisamo — one of the last survivors of the original conquerors of Peru — wrote in the preamble of his will, the following, in parts:

In 2007, Gideon Haigh wrote an article in The Monthly arguing that On the Beach is Australia's most important novel: " Most novels of apocalypse posit at least a group of survivors and the semblance of hope.

The critic B. W. Findon wrote, " Among the survivors of the old brigade – of the artists who thoroughly understand the requirements of farcical comedy, who know how to treat its humour with breadth, and grapple successfully with its ludicrous situations – is Mr. Weedon Grossmith.

Bernardin so touched the lives of cancer patients, relating to them on such a personal and spiritual level, that countless sick, dying and survivors of the terror of cancer wrote to him, expressing their thanks, admiration, love and hope.

In 2002, rapper Bizzy Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony wrote a song for the show ( AMW ) and dedicated it to Adam and John Walsh, encouraging abduction survivors not to keep their abductions a secret, as Bizzy Bone did after being abducted in the early 1980s.

In 1997, the 60th anniversary of Operation Rügen, then German President Roman Herzog wrote to survivors of the raid apologizing on behalf of the German people and state.

Gleig wrote a memoir of the disastrous ( First ) Anglo-Afghan War, of which he was one of the very few survivors.

Wellington wrote that " While Géricault carried his interest in actual detail to the point of searching for more survivors from the wreck as models, Delacroix felt his composition more vividly as a whole, thought of his figures and crowds as types, and dominated them by the symbolic figure of Republican Liberty which is one of his finest plastic inventions.

* James Clavell is one of the most famous survivors ; he wrote about his experiences in the book King Rat.

In 1997, the 60th anniversary of Operation Rügen, then German President Roman Herzog wrote to survivors apologizing on behalf of the German people and state for Germany's role in the Civil War in general.

Cabeza de Vaca wrote a narration entitled Naufragios ( Castaways ), in which he described the journey made by these four survivors on foot across the present day southeastern United States.

During his service, he wrote numerous stories and Adrift in a Boneyard as an extended fiction about survivors of a disaster.

Falconer was one of the three survivors of a trading ship on voyage from Alexandria to Venice and in 1751 he wrote and published a poem on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Antonio Pigafetta, one of the expedition's few survivors and the chronicler of Magellan's expedition, wrote in his account about their encounter with natives twice a normal person's height:

Two survivors wrote accounts of the wrecking:

One of the survivors later wrote, " Practically half of the Eighth's 1, 000 Georgians fell dead or wounded, or were captured or lost ... Bartow led his men to an exposed eminence which was too hot to hold.

Despite these hardships, survivors from this group of prisoners who wrote about their experiences generally stated that they were treated humanely at Camp Douglas.

IGN wrote " he appeared to be both integral and counterproductive to their survival " and " Boone appeared to be a pure and honest guy who tried to help people on the island and attempted to carry his own weight among the seemingly-unscathed survivors of Oceanic Flight 815.