Recently added articles from VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine:
New GI Bill: Victory for Veterans
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... VFW scores legislative triumph on behalf of newest generation of war veterans. Education benefits on par with WWII GI Bill "The money should help GIs get over the sticker shock and to raise the ambitions and aspirations and bring into the Americandreamer category more young men and young ...
Major League Baseball Backs Vets
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Major League Baseball launched an initiative in July to raise $100 million to provide free psychological counseling via private practitioners and job assistance for Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans. The effort is designed to supplement existing government programs and plug gaps, ...
Canada to Expel Deserters
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Some 200 American deserters who fled to Canada to escape duty in Iraq will not be given sanctuary, despite a sympathetic House of Commons resolution. The first among them was expelled July 15. Leftovers that dodged the draft during the Vietnam War and make up the War Resisters Support ...
National Home Meeting
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The annual meeting of the VFW National Home for Children will be held in Eaton Rapids, Mich., on Oct ....
BOOK CORNER
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Clemons, Kortney and Bill Briggs. Amped: A Soldier's Race for Gold in the Shadow of War. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley,2008. Garland, Joseph E. Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe. Rockport, Mass.: Protean Press, 2008. Gat, Azar. War in Human Civilization. N.Y.: Oxford Univ ....
New GI Bill Benefit Worth $80,000
Sep 01, 2008; Dyhouse, Tim ... One year from now, eligible vets can take advantage of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act. In the meantime, here's some information about what they'll actually receive, by Tim Dyhouse It's free, it's worth about twice what it was before and it's now law. The new GI ...
VFW Pushed for the GI Bill and Much More During WWII
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Passage of the most important veterans legislation in history came about because of VFWs role. The part VFW played in achieving the Gl Bill of Rights, the popular name for the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was critical to its development and ultimate passage. Under the ...
VFW Calls for Action Over Chantix
Sep 01, 2008; Dyhouse, Tim ... VA's latest misstep of prescribing a drug that causes potential suicidal behavior in veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has VFW calling for resignations at the department. "Those in VA who failed to properly notify America's veterans that their medication could ...
Vet Costs Reach All-Time High
Sep 01, 2008; Dyhouse, Tim ... News from VFWs Washington Office SERVICE The federal government is spending more money on veterans than at any time in the nation's history, according to a Congressional Research Service report submitted to Congress in June. The $82 billion spent in 2007 surpasses the nearly $81 ...
VFW Sponsors Patient Summit
Sep 01, 2008; Dyhouse, Tim ... At a VFW-sponsored meeting of health-care advocates in June, attendees agreed that VA must focus more time and resources on preventive medical practices. The Patient Advocacy Leaders Summit held in Washington, D.C., attracted almost 100 representatives of more than three dozen medical and ...
Senate Bill to Aid Women Vets
Sep 01, 2008; Dyhouse, Tim ... LEGISLATION In June, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee approved a measure, sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), that would mandate studies dealing with problems faced by women vets at VA, as well as expanding relevant staff and training. This follows hot on the heels of ...
VA to Open 39 New Vet Centers
Sep 01, 2008; Dyhouse, Tim ... VA plans to open 39 new counseling centers for combat veterans during the next year. They will add to VA's existing 232 community-based Vet Centers. They offer combat vets and their families counseling on employment, family issues and education. For family members of vets killed on ...
Halt Goggle Sales to Iraq, Says VFW
Sep 01, 2008; Dyhouse, Tim ... SECURITY Concerned that the proposed sale of night-vision goggles to Iraq could endanger U.S. troops, VFW expressed its opposition directly to the Pentagon in July. "VFW's concern stems from Iraq's past performance and inability to account for other high-tech weapons and ...
Vets Clubs Offer Peer Support on Campus
Sep 01, 2008; Lanigan, Kelly ... Veterans who attend college on the GI Bill today are different from their 18-year-old freshman counterparts in many ways. And things are changing for these student-veterans. To help adjust to these differences, the Student Veterans of America was formed this year with VFW assistance. In ...
Center Assists Mississippi State Veterans
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas) introduced H.R. 5143, the securing Success for Veterans on Campus Act of 2008, in January. The act would award three-year grants to colleges and universities to develop campus Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success. While the bill has not seen any action ...
stay TUNED to your hearing
Sep 01, 2008; Lanigan, Kelly ... Today, VA's National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research in Portland, Ore., is pioneering new ways to prevent and treat hearing loss. Younger war veterans as well as older vets are benefiting, with nearly 850,000 receiving compensation for auditory disabilities. Harry James Rand ...
Purple Heart Vets Share Memories at NASCAR Event
Sep 01, 2008; Lanigan, Kelly ... During their trip to the Coke Zero 400 race courtesy of VFW's Kahle Fund, seven Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans spoke of their experiences since being wounded in action. VFW's Kahle Fund sent seven Iraq and Afghanistan War Purple Heart recipients to the Daytona International Speedway ...
VFW's National Legislative Service: Crafting Legislation on Capitol Hill
Sep 01, 2008; Netzer, Jaime ... VFW's National Legislative Service has been lobbying on behalf of veterans for nearly 90 years. Never has its expertise been more important and needed than today. Here is how it works for you, the member. Editor's note: With this article, VFW magazine launches a yearlong series called ...
How France Remembers Its Vietnam War Dead
Sep 01, 2008; Kolb, Richard K ... Between 1946 and 1954, France's force sustained more than 55,000 military deaths (only 28% of whom were Frenchmen) in Indochina. It would be 50 years before they and 300,000 French veterans would be officially and publicly recognized. With America's Vietnam Veterans Memorial Center ...
Past Commander-in-Chief Ray Sisk Dies
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... VFW National Headquarters was saddened by the death of past Commander-in-Chief Ray Sisk, 71, on July 6, 2008, in Talihina, Okla. Services were held July 10 at Talihina High School. Burial followed at Talihina Cemetery. Mr. Sisk was born Dec. 26, 1936, in Marshall, Ark He served ...