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.

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

In such cases, NPRC searches through unit records, military pay records, and records of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes veterans that served in the country then known as the Republic of Vietnam from February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975, as being eligible for such programs as the department's Readjustment Counseling Services program ( aka Vet Centers ).

While allowing him to participate in the All-Century Team, MLB has refused to allow him to participate in local events in Cincinnati, such as the 25th anniversary reunion of the Big Red Machine, the closing of Cinergy Field, and the opening of the Great American Ballpark, as well as the closing of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia and 1980 Phillies anniversary celebrations.

The term is often used to criticize publicly provided health care outside the US, but rarely to describe similar health care programs in the US, such as the Veterans Administration clinics and hospitals, military health care, nor the single payer programs such as Medicaid and Medicare.

Spassky continued to play occasional events through much of the 1990s, such as the Veterans versus Women series.

There are several notable Beaux-Arts buildings, such as the Veterans ' Administration building, the Newark Museum, the Newark Public Library, and the Cass Gilbert-designed Essex County Courthouse.

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 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.

Veteran service organizations such as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans, as well as state-operated Veterans Affairs offices and County Veteran Service Officers ( CVSO ), have been known to assist veterans in the process of getting care from the VA.

It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county, though a few private establishments ( such as the Searcy Country Club, and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts in Searcy and Beebe ) can sell alcohol.

* The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award, saluting actual dubious achievements by the government or famous people, such as the announcement of a new Veterans Administration hospital to be erected in Southern California shortly after another such facility was destroyed in the Sylmar earthquake of 1971.

Throughout the year, the Art Discovery Series presents plays, concerts, and musicals, and in the summer, there are regular band concerts at Veterans ' Park, as well as many activities at the Sierra Vista Public Library such as a film series, lectures, readings, and other programs for children and adults.

The first two such bridges are the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, completed in 2006, and the Veterans ' Glass City Skyway, completed in 2007.

The pattern of establishing departments and local posts was later used by other veterans ' organizations, such as the American Legion ( WWI ) and the Veterans of Foreign Wars ( WWII ).

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.

Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills is a park dedicated to the preservation of American history, and hosts high-profile events such as an annual Veterans Day ceremony attended by dignitaries and other VIPs.

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.

* Oral history interview with Albert D ' Amico, a Navy Veteran who was aboard LST 278 during the landing at Okinawa from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University

The monument was created by Maya Lin who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.

* 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.

* Evocati: Veterans of the Roman army who had the right to retire, but had chosen to stay on after their tenure was finished.

According to the U. S. Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ( VEVRAA ) states, " A Vietnam era veteran is a person who

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.

President Harding sent Charles R. Forbes, Director of the Veterans Bureau, to privately investigate the matter ; upsetting Daugherty, who proclaimed the prison situation in Atlanta was none of Forbes business.

Harding placed a reformer, Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, in charge of the Veterans Bureau who immediately cleared up the mess left by Forbes.

* 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.

On Veterans Day, November 11, 1981, Dan Goodwin, who had successfully climbed the Sears Tower on Memorial Day, battled for his life on the side of the John Hancock Center.

The County leased the auditorium to the Independence Veterans of Foreign Wars, who used it as a meeting facility and community theater until 1951.

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.

::( 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 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.

Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, who directed the Veterans Bureau for seven years, was named as the first Administrator of Veterans Affairs, a job he held until 1945.

Veterans with lesser qualifying factors who exceed a pre-defined income threshold have to make co-payments for care for non-service-connected ailments and pay $ 9 per 30-day supply for each prescription medication.

* Veterans of the First World War who died in 2001

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.

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.

Veterans from the south had higher rates of throat cancer, acute / chronic leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, soft tissue sarcoma and liver cancer.

Katherine Marcia Forbes, wife of Harding's Veterans Bureau appointment Charles R. Forbes, had unprecedented access to the White House.

Previously, in the fall of 1922 Cramer had been " bitterly assailed " by the American Legion at Indianapolis over alleged corruption at the Veterans Bureau.

Cramer had paid $ 40, 000 in Veteran funds to a private landholder to lease land to build a Veterans Hospital in Camp Kearny, California.

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

Critics pointed out that her apology came at a time when a group of New England Veterans had launched a campaign to disrupt a film project she was working on, leading to the charge that her apology was motivated at least partially by self-interest.

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.

During her tenure as mayor she had the accomplishments of the covered bridge, Veterans Memorial Park, Boys & Girls Club / Civic Center, Senior Center, Food Pantry, and a new branch of the Lake County Public Library took place under her administration.

He had a great-grandfather who fought in the American Civil War in the Confederate Army, which is why Pat is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

It was in part out of public concern over the sale of pets to research facilities that the 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act was ushered in — the Senate Committee on Commerce reported in 1966 that stolen pets had been retrieved from Veterans Administration facilities, the Mayo Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Harvard and Yale Medical Schools.

Thurmond had completed the documentation and long been a member of the corresponding Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Veterans and legislators from New York and Pennsylvania requested to keep their namesake battleships as museum ships, as Texas had done with its battleship, but the JTF-1 replied, "... it is regretted that such ships as the New York cannot be spared.

In addition, his 1928 trip to Munich was to oversee the making of the stained glass windows he had designed for a Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids.

On February 25, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled 2-1 that Frank Gaylord, sculptor of a portion of the Korean War Veterans Memorial, was entitled to compensation when an image of that sculpture was used on a 37 cent postage stamp because he had not signed away his intellectual property rights to the sculpture when it was erected.

When he died at the age of 106, the Canadian Department of Veterans ' Affairs believed he had been the last surviving pilot in the world to have seen action in the Great War.

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.

Earlier that day, Sipple had visited a friend and said he had been turned away by the Veterans Administration hospital where he went concerning his difficulty in breathing due to pneumonia.