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May 11, 2015

Weekly Review for Veterans and Oral History for Monday, May 11, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans. Enjoy!

Veterans Support: VA to study benefits of service dogs, emotional support dogs for Veterans
Joel Nicholson started his military career with the U.S. Marine Corps in 1993. He later joined the National Guard in 2006 and was activated in 2008 with the 56th Stryker Brigade to deploy to Iraq. He spent much of his deployment patrolling route Michigan in between Fallujah and Baghdad.
After leaving the service in 2009, Joel noticed he was depressed, had severe memory loss and was relying too much on alcohol to self-medicate. That’s when he checked in to a PTSD Residential Rehabilitation Program in West Virginia where a VA doctor recommended he get a service dog.

Read more here…

Florida Legal News: Florida Veteran Invokes Stand Your Ground Law in Killing of Neighbors
William Woodward says he and his family thought their lives were threatened by their nasty neighbors.
Read more here…

Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for U.S. Veterans.

April 10, 2015

Weekly Review for Veterans and Oral History for Friday, April 10, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans. Enjoy!

Save 96 Year Old War Hero From An Eviction
As a young prisoner of war, he survived the brutality of the Nazi ‘death march’ across Europe. Now 96-year-old Robert Clark is engaged in a different sort of battle after a council refused to increase funding he needs for a live-in carer. It means the Second World War veteran could be forced out of his home of nearly 50 years and into a care home – a move his son describes as ‘like going back into a prisoner of war camp’.

Read more here…

VA Announces New Grants to Help End Veteran Homelessness
VA Secretary Bob McDonald today announced the award of nearly $93 million in Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) 3-year grants that will help approximately 45,000 homeless and at-risk Veterans and their families. The grants will be distributed to 24 non-profit agencies in 15 communities, with $30 million in awards being distributed to the Los Angeles area.

Read more here…

Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for U.S. Veterans.

April 6, 2015

Weekly Review for Veterans and Oral History for Monday, April 6, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans. Enjoy!

Helping Veterans: Veterans with PTSD reclaiming their lives
Major Joshua Brandon has been an Infantry Officer with the U.S. Army since 2002 and he has PTSD. Difficult memories were triggered when he was driving to the grocery store in Tennessee and he would smell the smoke from backyard fires.

“I started looking for threats in all directions. My adrenaline would spike. I had to pull over and talk myself out of it.”

Major Brandon has the courage to talk about his experience and how VA has helped him with his PTSD on the website AboutFace. Learn about posttraumatic stress disorder from Veterans who have experienced it. Hear their stories. Find out how treatment turned their lives around.

Read more here…

Help a Veteran: Supportive service partnerships key to ending Veteran homelessness
As VA works to end homelessness among Veterans by the end of 2015, partnerships of all types – including with federal, state, local and private entities – are essential in providing employment opportunities and safe and affordable housing to support homeless Veterans’ needs. These partnerships can increase the range of service offerings and thus provide better outcomes for Veterans and their families. The work of Yvette DeJesus exemplifies why partnerships play a critical role in helping to end Veteran homelessness.

Read more here…

Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for U.S. Veterans.

July 3, 2014

Weekly Review for U.S. Veterans for Friday, July 4, 2014

Happy 4th of July!!

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans. Enjoy!

Really? Veteran Fined for Flying Flag at Home
A U.S. veteran was fined $8,000 by his home owners association for flying an American flag outside of his home. Watch video here…

PTSD – My Shame Was Being Alive
In observance of PTSD Awareness Day: June 27, 2014, VAntage Point, in collaboration with VA’s National Center for PTSD, presents the following profile of a Veteran who is living with PTSD and has turned his life around with treatment. Read more here…

Preserving the Past: ‘Vietnam Remembered’: Souvenirs, wartime memorabilia tell soldiers’ tales
Sometimes the smallest items tell the biggest stories. Read more here…

Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for U.S. Veterans. Have a safe and happy holiday!

March 30, 2014September 10, 2018

Weekly Review for U.S. Veterans for Monday, March 31, 2014

Weekly Review for Veterans March 31, 2014

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans, Veterans assistance programs, Veterans jobs, Veterans counseling, Veterans recognition, Veterans oral history, Veterans museums, military history and World War 2.

Veteran’s group names suicide prevention top 2014 priority; extending PTSD care also high on list.

Broad action is needed from Congress and President Barack Obama to combat the growing problem of veteran’s suicide, a group representing veterans of recent wars declared Monday on Capitol Hill. Read more here…ow.ly/uWq4l

Discounted Florida Legal Services for Veterans
Russell Law starts initiative to provide discounted legal services to Veterans and Active Duty Military Service Members
I am proud of my Country and what it stands for. And I am eternally grateful to all U.S. Veterans, past and present, for their sacrifice in defending our freedom. That being said, it is our civic duty as citizens to help those same Veterans and active duty military service members when they need it most. Read more here…ow.ly/v0fXW.

Soldiers in Poland pay tribute to World War Two in Poland. May history never repeat itself.

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Enjoy and stay tuned for next week’s review for U.S. Veterans.

March 20, 2014

Weekly Review for U.S. Veterans – Friday, 3/21/14

Weekly Review for U.S. Veterans for the week of March 21, 2014

Veterans receive belated Medals of Honor:

CNN’s Jake Tapper talks with SSG Melvin Morris about receiving a long-awaited Medal of Honor.
Watch here…

24 Soldiers to Receive Medal of Honor:

Prejudices of earlier decades meant heroism was not fully recognized.

Read more here…

Federal Government Signs Off On Study Using Marijuana To Treat Veteran’s PTSD:

The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.

Read more here…

How PTSD affects families of veterans:

Not all our casualties of war served overseas in combat. Some are children who never left our shores. Collateral damage, some might call it.

Read more here…

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for next week’s Weekly Review for U.S. Veterans.