NO ONE LEFT BEHIND!“An Army veteran called our Lifeline for Vets and needed his DD214 to complete his job application for a federal job. I advised him that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Personnel Records Center was accepting urgent DD214 requests ...
Veterans Day, 2019
Veterans Day commemorates the end of World War I, the war to end all wars. It’s become a day to remember all Veterans and victims of war. In America we especially honor that precious one percent of our population who have fought our ...
Almost a Statistic: A Woman Vet Looks to the VA for Treatment
When he found his wife in their house, she asked for his forgiveness. She’d taken 50 pills in an attempted suicide. Pure chance that he found her so soon after she’d swallowed those pills. They would have killed her if they’d had time to ...
Screening of “Is Anybody Listening” Veteran Stories – D.C.
United States Congressman Raul Ruiz will be hosting a screening of "Is Anybody Listening?" is anybodylisteningmovie.org on June 16, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. in the Cannon House Office Building, 27 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003, Room ...
Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation Provides Special Ops Veterans Scholarships
Special Ops Veterans Scholarships The Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation's focus is on providing Special Ops Veterans Scholarships to current and former special operations professionals, from all branches of the government, the means ...
Oh Captain, My Captain…
Our guest blogger, Bob Fraser, served as a sergeant under Shad Meshad with the 98th KO (psychiatric team) in I Corps, South Vietnam in 1970. Upon discharge he was one of the co-founders of “Vet’s House,” a community-based multi-service ...
What the heck is Gulf War Syndrome?
Gulf War Syndrome, or Gulf War Illness as it is now known, is a chronic multisymptom disorder that affects up to 20 percent of the veterans and civilians that deployed to the Iraq Theater. Although the cause of Gulf War Syndrome is not ...
Veterans Day – Give Thanks to those who have Served
“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and ...
