Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Patrick County, Virginia" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Veterans and Confederate
The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library was established at Beauvoir Plantation, the white-columned Biloxi mansion that was Davis's final home, in 1998, after its use for some years as a Confederate Veterans Home.
Bertram Hayes-Davis, Davis's great-great grandson, was recently hired as executive director of Beauvoir, which is owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Thurmond was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a similar group for men.
Category: Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
About 300 Confederate flag supporters, including members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, rallied before the City Council meeting, and after the vote the Sons of Confederate Veterans vowed to challenge the new local ordinance in court.
United Confederate Veterans organized a chapter known as the " William P. Rogers Camp " in San Saba County after the death in 1889 of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
* 1889-United Confederate Veterans William P. Rogers Camp No. 322 was established, named for Col. William P. Rogers.
* Rusk County Sons of Confederate Veterans
The statue was funded by public donations, the civic organization Self Culture Club, Jeff Davis Camp 117, and United Confederate Veterans.
* 1896 Camp Ben McCulloch, named after Brigadier General, was organized for reunions of United Confederate Veterans.
In September 2009, the Chattooga County Camp 507, Sons of Confederate Veterans in conjunction with the Missionary Ridge Camp 63 Sons of Union Veterans, and several local groups erected a memorial monument to remember the " First Battle of Trion Factory " and the soldiers who are buried in unmarked graves at Trion.
He was adjutant general and commander of the Louisiana division of the United Confederate Veterans.
The major organizations dedicated to creating and maintaining the tradition were the United Daughters of the Confederacy and United Confederate Veterans.
Columbia is also the home of the national headquarters for the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The Tipton County Confederate Veterans Reunion, as it became to be known, continued to be held at Brighton until 1940.
* Sons of Confederate Veterans, Gen. Alfred E. Jackson Camp # 2159
The local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is named after General Jackson.

Veterans and States
Externally, political activity on the part of Ásatrú organizations has surrounded campaigns against alleged religious discrimination, such as the call for the introduction of an Ásatrú " emblem of belief " by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to parallel the Wiccan pentacle granted to the widow of Patrick Stewart in 2006.
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs does not list any Ásatrú symbols as available emblems of belief for placement on government headstones and markers.
* United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans ' Hospital is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Its first use was in the development of medical applications for the Veterans Administration, now called the Department of Veterans Affairs, a branch of the United States Government.
In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day.
It is known as Veterans Day in the United States.
For example, see figure, in the US United States Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA ) the program management life cycle is depicted and describe in the overall VA IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT FRAMEwork to address the integration of OMB Exhibit 300 project ( investment ) management activities and the overall project budgeting process.
* Segs4Vets, provides Segways to United States wounded Veterans
* July 21 – United States Department of Veterans Affairs established.
The United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans ' benefits and related matters.
When the post of Secretary is vacant, the United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs or any other person designated by the President serves as Acting Secretary until the President nominates and the United States Senate confirms a new Secretary.
* Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, United States, 1960
* National Resource Directory links to resources for United States Service Members, Veterans and their families ( NRD. gov ).
::( 1 ) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is no President pro tempore to act as President under subsection ( b ) of this section, then the officer of the United States who is highest on the following list, and who is not under disability to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President shall act as President: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Homeland Security.
The United States ' Veterans Health Administration, and the medical departments of the US Army, Navy, and Air Force, would also fall under this narrow definition.
Veterans Day is commemorated in the United States on 11 November, and is both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states.
* Gordon H. Mansfield, Acting United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
There currently are thirteen United States courts of appeals, although there are other tribunals ( such as the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, which hears appeals in court-martial cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, which reviews final decisions by the Board of Veterans ' Appeals in the Department of Veterans Affairs ) that have " Court of Appeals " in their titles.

Veterans and America
Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.
* Korea Defense Veterans of America
* Vietnam Veterans of America
Twyla Tharp received two Emmy Awards, 19 honorary doctorates, the Vietnam Veterans of America President ’ s Award, the 2004 National Medal of the Arts, and numerous grants including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
* Vietnam Veterans of America President ’ s Award for Excellence in the Arts
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.
Veterans of goldfields in California and Australia, plus many other fortune-seekers from Europe, North America and China, poured into the then Province of Otago, eroding its Scottish Presbyterian character.
The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation ( VVAF ), established in 1980, now the Veterans for America ( VFA ), is a Washington, D. C .- based international humanitarian organization that addresses the consequences of war and conflict.
In this same period, such organizations as the Sons of the American Revolution ( SAR ), the Colonial Dames of America, the Mary Washington Memorial Society, Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Sons of Confederate Veterans were also founded.
* Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America
# Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America ( JWV )
He has been a regular participant in the " Concerts for a Landmine Free World ," benefiting the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.
* Paralyzed Veterans of America
In addition, Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the U. S. Treasury, the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Sister Kenny Foundation, the Boy Scouts of America, Community Chest, the National Reading Council, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, Christmas Seals, the National Amputation Foundation and Disabled American Veterans, among others.
Williams also co-authored a seminal book on the landmine crisis in 1995, After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmines ( Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, Washington, DC ).
The coalition was formed in 1992 when six groups with similar interests, including Human Rights Watch, Medico International, Handicap International, Physicians for Human Rights, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and the Mines Advisory Group, agreed to cooperate on their common goal.
The project was funded by an array of donors including the Allen Research Institute, Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation, the ALS Association, Wyeth Research, PEMCO Insurance, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, International Spinal Research Trust, and many other organizations, foundations, corporate and private donors.
* Veterans for a Secure America
* Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
After failing to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ), the Veterans Committee elected Bancroft in 1971.
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc. ( VVA ) is a national non-profit corporation founded in 1978 in the United States that promotes the interests of United States military veterans of the Vietnam War era.

0.157 seconds.