Article: WAR AMPS: War Amps video claims government purposely denied veterans benefits to merchant seamen.

Article: National veterans organizations thank government for full funding ...
M2 Presswire;  May 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... PRESSWIRE-8 May 2001-WAR AMPS: National veterans organizations ... government for full funding for merchant seamen (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... final payment for Canada's Merchant Seamen. Chadderton stated that ... surprised at the number of Merchant Seamen and widows ...

Article: WAR AMPS: Veterans and government officials battle ...
M2 Presswire;  May 21, 1999 ;     619 words ... ... 21 May 1999-WAR AMPS: Veterans and ... RDATE:190599 * Merchant Seamen Claim For Benefits ... for Canada's Merchant Seamen, Veterans Affairs ... Internet, giving The War Amps an opportunity ... refusal to compensate Merchant Seamen for the failure ... Armed Forces. ...

Article: REMEMBERING MERCHANT SEAMEN
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 13, 1995 ;     407 words ... ... 08-13-1995 REMEMBERING MERCHANT SEAMEN Date: 08-13-1995, Sunday ... transports, manned by volunteer merchant seamen -- carried the material ... troops and naval ships. The merchant seamen, together with the U.S ...

Article: Salute to merchant seamen who have been reluctantly ...
Cape Times (South Africa);  November 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Reveille. This is the annual tribute to merchant seamen who died during various wars as their ... that German, Japanese and Italian merchant seamen also endured bombing raids and naval ... to train youngsters by the dozen. Merchant seamen did not escape harm during the Falklands ...

Article: Appointment to the Merchant Seamen Compensation ...
Marketwire Canada;  October 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Cyr as Chairperson and Member of the Merchant Seamen Compensation Board. "I am pleased ... from the University of Ottawa. The Merchant Seamen Compensation Act provides compensation ... provincial acts. It is administered by the Merchant Seamen Compensation Board, whose members ...

Article: FIRST OF WWII MERCHANT SEAMEN RECEIVE STATUS AS US ...
The Boston Globe;  March 19, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... 000 applicants among World War II merchant seamen were granted war veterans status yesterday ... Providence. The response of wartime merchant seamen has been overwhelming, according ... he said, not only survivors of merchant seamen who died in the war, but survivors ...

Article: MERCHANT SEAMEN MOVE CLOSER TO GETTING WWII VETERAN ...
The Boston Globe;  July 23, 1987 ;     700+ words ...Thousands of American merchant seamen, many retired, soon may become ... place in American history of the merchant seamen who served in World War II ... veterans' status to each of the merchant seamen's groups" -- those in oceangoing ...