Monthly Archives: September 2004

Veterans Group Donates $20K in Support of Wounded Soldiers By Samantha L. Quigley A late-April visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany prompted the "Forty...

Upcoming Smithsonian Exhibition Honors Service Members By John ValceanuAmerican Forces Press Service The Smithsonian Institution will launch a major permanent exhibition honoring American armed forces...

What is a Vet? By Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC  Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a Jagged scar, a certain...

Rest Doesn't Come Easy at Arlington By Steve Vogel @@START_COMMENTplsfield:disp_date@@END_COMMENT @@START_COMMENTplsfield:description@@END_COMMENT Keith Barnes circled the pavement in front of the administrative building at Arlington National Cemetery,...

Findings from a National Study of Female Vietnam War Veterans During and after the Vietnam War, mental-health professionals and behavioral scientists began to notice adjustment...

A Vietnam veteran remembers, "Don't dwell on the bad stuff" By: Jerry Lyons, 199th Light Infantry BrigadeIn early 1968 I left school, got married, got...

Two Generations, One Common Cause By U.S. Air Force Capt. Susan A. Romano / 407th Air Expeditionary Group Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Lawrence...

Myers Tells Fort Campbell Combat Vets to 'Walk Tall' By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Ky., Sept. 1, 2004 "Walk tall," Air Force Gen. Richard B....

Retiree Returns to Serve Country By Army Spc. Aaron Ritter / Army News Service For some soldiers, one enlistment is enough. Others serve 20 years so...

Vietnam Veterans of America proposes mandatory funding for VA healthcare· The VA medical system is grossly underfunded. On a per capita basis, a veteran...

National Association of Veterans' Program Administrators  29th Annual Conference to be held in Chicago October 26 30, 2004 The 2004 Conference Committee is...

World War II Veteran receives Purple Heart By Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danet A 24-year-old navigator was wounded during a bombing mission over Germany on...

A WW II veteran's story: Clark Simmons, Survivor, USS Utah Excerpted from interviews taken for the National Geographic program, Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack, on...

Vietnam War is history, has no place in 2004 election By: Joe Galloway August 30, 2004, WASHINGTON - One more time, with feeling: The Vietnam War...

PTSD: Active coping with traumatic stress reactions When veterans take direct action to cope with their stress reactions and trauma-related problems, they put themselves in...

Veterans 2004 Creative Arts Festival uses arts as a form of rehab Nationwide, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities use the creative arts as a...