This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

We veterans acknowledge the fact that as time passes the demand for medical care at VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age fosters illness.

The Roman veterans who had been settled there mistreated the locals and a temple to the former emperor Claudius had been erected there at local expense, making the city a focus for resentment.

In 1989, the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field, Don Zimmer's Cubs were led by a core group of veterans in Ryne Sandberg, Rick Sutcliffe and Andre Dawson, who were boosted by a crop of youngsters such as Mark Grace, Shawon Dunston, Greg Maddux, Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton, and Rookie of the Year Runner-Up Dwight Smith.

The novel provides motivation and backstory to Snake and Hauk — both disillusioned war veterans — deepening their relationship that was only hinted at it in the film.

Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.

On 25 April 2005, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, government officials from Australia and New Zealand, most of the last surviving Gallipoli veterans, and many Australian and New Zealand tourists traveled to Turkey for a special dawn service at Gallipoli.

* 1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U. S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

* 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.

* 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.

* 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.

Throughout the country, two minutes of silence are observed at 8 p. m. On May 5th, the liberation is celebrated and festivals are held at most places in the Netherlands, with a parade of veterans and day-long musical festival in Wageningen, the latter with an estimated attendance of 100, 000.

Air Force veterans are awarded the Purple Heart by the Awards Office of Randolph Air Force Base while the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard presents Purple Hearts to veterans through the Navy Liaison Officer at the National Personnel Records Center.

For requests received directly from veterans, these requests are routed through a Navy Liaison Office on site at 9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63132-5100 ( the location of the Military Personnel Records Center ).

bill permits veterans to take their educational benefits at religious schools, an extremely divisive issue when applied to primary and secondary schools.

Until 1850 the church looked at those veterans of the 1844 experience as a saving remnant.

It operated as a traditional high school until the end of World War II, when it was converted to a vocational and adult education institution for the benefit of veterans who wanted to finish high school but no longer fit in at regular schools.

Some U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital personnel also encouraged the veterans working at the Vet Centers to research and expand treatment options for veterans suffering the particular symptoms of this newly recognized syndrome.

Forbes ' main task at the Veterans bureau, having an unprecedented $ 500 million yearly budget, was to ensure that new hospitals would be built around the country to help 300, 000 wounded World War I veterans.

* In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum ( Colchester ).

Like several other people working at the mill, these two workers were discharged veterans of the Mormon Battalion.

In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, one of the new " young lions " was Christian McBride ( born 1972 ), who has performed with a range of veterans ranging from McCoy Tyner to fusion gurus Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, and who has released albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision.

As first lady, Reagan visited veterans, the elderly, and the handicapped, and worked with a number of charities.

The Reagans held dinners for former POWs and Vietnam War veterans while governor and first lady.

Other veterans like Shawn Marion, Jason Kidd, and Jason Terry also won their first titles with Nowitzki.

The team was managed by Dick Williams, and it had an offense that featured the veterans Steve Garvey, Garry Templeton, Graig Nettles, Alan Wiggins, plus the new, young star Tony Gwynn, who won his first of eight National League batting championships that year ( he won in 1987, 88, and 89 and from 1994 through 97 ).

Since 1915, the Ku Klux Klan was growing in urban chapters across the Midwest, particularly since veterans had been returning from the war ; it made its first major appearance in Oklahoma later that year on August 12, 1921, less than three months after the riot.

In 1979, Public Law 96-22 established the first Vet Centers, after a decade of effort by combat vets and others who realized the Vietnam veterans in America and elsewhere ( including Australia ) were facing specific kinds of readjustment problems.

These men founded one of the first local organizations by and for Vietnam veterans in 1981 ( now known as Veterans Village ).

However, advocates of this point of view ignore the many successful and well-adjusted Vietnam veterans who have played important roles in America since the end of the Vietnam War such as Al Gore, Fred Smith ( founder and president of Federal Express ), Colin Powell, John McCain, Craig Venter ( famed for being the first to map the human genome ), and many others.

* May 29 – The first of approximately 15, 000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D. C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.

The new men were often not even proficient in the use of their own rifles or weapons systems, and once in combat, could not receive enough practical instruction from veterans before being killed or wounded, usually within the first three or four days.

Diaz has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America ( IAVA ), the first and largest nonprofit organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has spoken as an advocate for military families.

The first organized international competitions for athletes with a physical disability ( not deaf ) began in 1952, when the first international Stoke Mandeville Games were organized for World War II veterans.

In 1957, he became the General Secretary of the National Front of Combatants, a veterans ' organization, as well as the first French politician to nominate a Muslim candidate, Ahmed Djebbour, an Algerian, elected in 1957 as deputy of Paris.

Because of autoinfection, humans have been known to still be infected up to 65 years after they were first exposed to the parasite ( e. g., World War II or Vietnam veterans ).

The first, located in Austin, Texas and headed by industry veterans Gordon Walton and Richard Vogel, was created to work on the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG project.

The Plymouth colony first cared for veterans beginning in 1636.

In 1811, the first domiciliary and medical facility for veterans was authorized by the federal government, but not opened until 1834.

The first guide dog training schools were established in Germany during World War I, to enhance the mobility of returning veterans who were blinded in combat.

Three of these first were Judy, Meta, and Folly, who were handed over to their new owners, veterans blinded in World War I, on 6 October 1931.

A blockhouse had been constructed during the conflict on the northwestern side of the Choctawhatchee River, and the first non-Indian residents of Dale County would be veterans who began to settle in the area around 1820.

Stephen Peck is active in support of American veterans from the Vietnam War ; his first wife is screenwriter Kimi Peck, who co-wrote Little Darlings with Dalene Young.