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Vanessa Guillen Act

The Historic I Am Vanessa Guillén Act

By Shad Meshad / February 3, 2022

For over five years, I’ve been writing about MST, military sexual trauma, initially as experienced by women Veterans. I had…

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Getting to Know our Women Veterans: A Navy Veteran Interview

By National Veterans Foundation / May 14, 2020

To honor and raise awareness of our women veterans we are asking them to complete our questionnaire to get to…

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Getting to Know our Women Veterans: An Army Veteran Interview

By National Veterans Foundation / April 8, 2020

This Army Veteran interview spotlights a woman veteran who joined the Army in 1995. She answers our questions for our…

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Veterans Day, 2019

By Shad Meshad / November 8, 2019

Veterans Day commemorates the end of World War I, the war to end all wars. It’s become a day to…

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Jackie Hill – A Personal Motivation

By National Veterans Foundation / May 23, 2018

A native Angeleno, Jackie Hill attended Cal State, Dominguez Hills for her undergrad work. She credits leaders at the university…

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Almost a Statistic: A Woman Vet Looks to the VA for Treatment

By Shad Meshad / October 26, 2017

When he found his wife in their house, she asked for his forgiveness. She’d taken 50 pills in an attempted…

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#MeToo Stories of Military Sexual Trauma

By Mary Ann Mayer / October 18, 2017

We here at the Women Veterans Outreach program hear stories from the women Vets we work with of sexual harassment…

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Served Like a Girl – Veteran Documentary

By National Veterans Foundation / October 3, 2017

Served Like A Girl is a documentary film chronicling the lives of female veterans as they compete for the crown…

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