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.

* 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.

Visits to war memorials such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are often seen as pilgrimages.

Some representatives of organizations like the Disabled American Veterans started advocating for the combat veterans to receive benefits for their war related psychological trauma.

Harding pushed for the establishment of the Bureau of Veterans Affairs ( later organized as the Department of Veterans Affairs ), the first permanent attempt at answering the needs of those who had served the nation in time of war.

* 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.

Veterans seasoned by 20 years of wars can't be intimidated by the presence of an army ignorant of the art of war, incapable of discipline, and renowned for insubordination.

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.

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 establishment of the Veterans Administration came in 1930 when Congress authorized the president to " consolidate and coordinate Government activities affecting war veterans.

Dewey is not listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C. because the United States Department of Defense has ruled that the war officially started, from a U. S. perspective, on November 1, 1955, after the U. S. took over following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.

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.

Growth was slow during the war years of 1861 to 1865 but started to boom shortly there after Veterans of the Civil War took advantage of the homestead act and many came to Mason County after the war to start a new life.

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:* Veterans Memorial Park is located along the Wolftever Creek Greenway and features plaques, sculptures and flags as a memorial to United States war veterans.

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 psychiatric diagnosis post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) was coined in the mid 1970s, in part through the efforts of anti-Vietnam War activists and the anti war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Chaim F. Shatan.

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.

* Veterans ' Park-A park dedicated to the hundreds of men and women from Sikeston and other communities in Southeast Missouri who have valiantly served their country in times of war, the park features a large, lighted granite monument and American flag display.

President Truman appointed Bradley to head the Veterans Administration for two years after the war.

However, many Mexican American war veterans were discriminated against and even denied medical services by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs when they arrived home.

The Pathet Lao, stiffened by Communist Veterans from neighboring North Viet Nam, were supplied by Soviet aircraft.

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.

Veteran qualifications differed from the junior enrollee ; one needed to be certified by the Veterans Administration by application, they could be any age, and married or single as long as they were in need of work.

Veterans were mostly assigned to entire veteran camps.

Among these were the 1989 " Bounty Bowls ," in which Ryan allegedly placed a bounty on Dallas kicker Luis Zendejas and Veterans Stadium fans pelted the Cowboys with snowballs and other debris.

Veterans, particularly in Southern California, were responsible for many of those early lobbying and subsequent Vet Center treatment programs.

Dr. Charles Sawyer and Forbes were rivals at the Veterans Bureau.

Dr. Sawyer and Forbes were at odds with each other over authority at the Veterans Bureau.

Players who were not selected by the BWAA could be considered by the Veterans Committee in the first year after they would have lost their place on the Baseball Writers ' ballot.

Veterans such as Aaron Ward, Andrew Alberts, and Stephane Yelle were brought in to help drive the team further, but things did not go according to plan.

By the 1920s, the various benefits were administered by three different federal agencies: the Veterans Bureau, the Bureau of Pensions of the Interior Department, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

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

John Logie Baird's experimental transmissions from UK to Berlin, Germany were transmitted from the stable block of Kingsbury Manor, now the Veterans Club in Roe Green Park.

** During the All-Stars version of Expedition Robinson the tribes were initially divided into two tribes, one composed of " Veterans " and the other of " Fans ".

Veterans of the Roman legions who had served Julius Caesar in his Nile campaigns, at the end of fifteen years of soldiering, were given plots of land to cultivate on the plain of Nîmes.

The Veterans Committee specifically looks at jazz artists who are no longer living who were overlooked for one reason or another while they were alive.

He and other builders were guaranteed by the Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Association ( FHA ) that qualified veterans could receive housing for a fraction of rental costs.

Knudsen Drive and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall on Macomb Street were named in his honor.

The major organizations dedicated to creating and maintaining the tradition were the United Daughters of the Confederacy and United Confederate Veterans.

Veterans of the Revolution were awarded land grants in this tract as payments for service.

Veterans of World War I and World War II were given homesteading opportunities on the reclaimed land.

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.

He was chairman, House Neophytes Bloc in which ( President ) Diosdado Macapagal, ( Vice President ) Emmanuel Pelaez and ( Manila Mayor ) Arsenio J. Lacson were members, House Committee on Industry ; LP spokesman on economic matters ; member, Special Committee on Import and Price Controls and on Reparations ; House Committees on Ways and Means, Banks Currency, War Veterans, Civil Service, Corporations and Economic Planning ; and the House Electoral Tribunal.