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Veterans and World
* 1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D. C. in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
* Veterans Benevolent Association, an early gay-interest organization founded by World War II veterans
Charles R. Forbes, the energetic Director of the Veterans Bureau, disregarded the dire needs of wounded World War I veterans to procure his own wealth.
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.
Like other monuments on the National Mall – including the nearby Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, and National World War II Memorial – the memorial is administered by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks group.
The federal department of Veterans Affairs Canada states that the date is of " remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace "; specifically, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and all conflicts since then in which members of the Canadian Forces have participated.
The team was founded in 1972 during the 1972 – 73 NHL season as part of a bid to keep the rival World Hockey Association out of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum where the Islanders have played since their founding.
With the impending start of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) in the fall of 1972, the upstart league had plans to place its New York team, the Raiders, in the then brand-new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County.
* Veterans of the First World War who died in 2001
The Veterans ' Museum on the grounds of the former Dyersburg Army Air Base in Halls, Tennessee is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of materials related to military activities from World War I to the Iraq war, as well as documenting the history of the air base itself.
After World War II, the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II Veterans and city planners transformed the city into a working-class community.
The campus also includes the Mooresville Veterans Memorial, which honors Mooresville's fallen soldiers from World War I and beyond.
< font size = 2 > The Veterans of Foreign Wars | VFW post is named for James D. Boston, Jr. ( 1916-1986 ), a World War II prisoner of war and later a history teacher at Montgomery High School .</ font size = 2 >
Halls is home to the Veterans ' Museum on the grounds of the Dyersburg Army Air Base, which documents the history of the World War II Army Air Corps.
The Veterans ' Museum on the grounds of the former Dyersburg Army Air Base is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of materials related to military activities from World War I to the Iraq war, as well as documenting the history of the air base itself.
The Veterans Park remains a state-of-the-art baseball stadium, having hosted a Babe Ruth League World Series Tournament in 2005.
Wright contracted with the Veterans Administration in 1919 to provide care for World War I veterans suffering from lung ailments ; the William L. Sill Tuberculosis Resort operated northwest of Boerne ; and Mrs. Adolph ( Emilie ) Lex opened her home to recovering patients, eventually converting two rooms into operating rooms.
The new settlers to the area consisted primarily of young farmers from Idaho and Southwestern Oregon and World War II Veterans, who received preferential status on the purchase of federal lands that were sold as part of the Project.
* The Second Battle of Ypres in Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914 – 1918 at Library and Archives Canada
* History of Fil-Am Veterans of World War II
From 1969 to 1998, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz ( himself a veteran of World War II ) regularly paid tribute to Bill Mauldin in his Peanuts comic strip on Veterans Day.

Veterans and War
* 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D. C ..
* National War Veterans ' Day ( Finland )
The Effects of Exposure to Agent Orange on the Intellectual Functioning, Academic Achievement, Visual Motor Skill, and Activity Level of the Offspring of Vietnam War Veterans.
* Cox, Paul ; " The Legacy of Agent Orange is a Continuing Focus of VVAW ", The Veteran, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Volume 38, No. 2, Fall 2008.
* 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
* 1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C ..
* Korean War Veterans Association
* 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.
* 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
* The Toledo War Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
In order to handle the needs of these veterans, the new Veterans Bureau incorporated the War Risk Insurance Bureau, the Brig.
* June 1 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U. S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
* November 13 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C., after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
In the same year, Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War ( VVAW ) in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
The book's dedication reads: " For the Gulf War Veterans ".

Veterans and I
Yucaipa is home to Yucaipa Regional Park, Flag Hill Veterans Memorial Park, Seventh Street Park, " I " Street Park, and Wildwood Park.
* R. I. Veterans Memorial Cemetery
* Jeffrey I. Richman, " Final Camping Ground: Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, In Their Own Words "
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.
A veteran of both World War I ( United States Navy ) and World War II ( United States Army ), Frooks also served as the National Commander of the Women World War Veterans.
In announcing his donation of services ( valued at $ 500, 000 ), Nicklaus said, " I was moved to see the amazing efforts at American Lake Veterans Golf Course where our wounded warriors learn to play golf with the help of an incredible army of volunteers.
The emblem of the legion was a capricorn ,< ref name =" Keppie ">, The Origins and Early History of the Second Augustan Legion, in, Legions and Veterans: Roman Army Papers 1971-2000, Stuttgart, 2000, p. < span class = plainlinks > 128 .</ ref > used along with the winged horse Pegasus, on the helmets the symbol used by I Adiutrix legionaries was a dolphin.
The son of a French-Jewish merchant, he served as a soldier in World War I, and later went on to form the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation.
Veterans of the First World War who died in 2003List of last surviving World War I veterans by countryList of last veterans of World War I by country and branch of service
Veterans played a central role in the post-World War I instability of Germany, while in the United States, the Bonus Army of unemployed veterans was one of the most important protest movements of the Great Depression, marching on Washington, DC, to get a claimed bonus that Congress had promised them.
Within the United States, it was veterans groups, like the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organization, that pushed for and got the G. I.
* When I Came Home Documentary about the experiences of American Veterans upon returning home.
Veterans of World War I, many of whom had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression, sought immediate cash payment of Service Certificates granted to them eight years earlier via the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924.
As a battalion commander, he was named Technical Adviser to the Minister of National Defense, Veterans and War Victims on 1 March 1977 as well as Aide-de-camp of His Imperial Majesty Bokassa I.
* The Veterans ' regulations were amended ( 1945 ) to provide increased rates of pension for certain service-incurred disabilities, generally on a parity with rates payable for similar disabilities under the World War I Veterans ' Act, 1924, as amended.

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