Purple Heart returned
Following a brief ceremony Thursday, a Purple Heart medal found by a local man 27 years ago in an attic started its journey back to
March 10, 2017
12:34 pm
Category: News
employment
Unemployment rate falls sharply for recent veterans
Recent veterans found jobs in February, helping reduce their unemployment rate to its lowest level in five months. The jobless rate for veterans who have
March 10, 2017
10:20 am
mental health
VA offers free Military Sexual Trauma health care services to Veterans regardless of service-connected status
I enlisted in the Army in 2000 and served for five years as an Arabic linguist, including a year-long Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment with the
March 10, 2017
7:58 am
WWII veterans
Pendleton celebrates the Doolittle raiders 75 years later
Only remnants remain of the bustling Army base at the Pendleton airport during World War II, but organizers are looking to revive the spirit for
March 9, 2017
6:06 pm
women veterans
Women Veterans celebrate women’s history month through art
Laura Taylor is one of 10 artists who will share messages of hope, healing, and inclusion at VA medical centers across the country during March
March 9, 2017
6:33 am
TBI
VA Research in the area of traumatic brain injury is leading to new discoveries, treatment
National Brain Injury Awareness Month, observed in March, is an appropriate time to remember our Veterans, particularly the wounds they have sustained—both visible and invisible—through
March 8, 2017
12:22 pm
mental health
VA secretary announces intention to expand mental health care to former service members with other-than-honorable discharges and in crisis
VA Secretary Dr. David J. Shulkin, while testifying in a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing March 7, 2017, announced his intention to expand provisions for urgent
March 8, 2017
11:15 am
WWII veterans
World War II Veteran reunites with B-17 bomber
Memories were flying high last weekend as Norman Norquist took flight in the same type of plane he flew in during World War II. Norman,
March 8, 2017
7:00 am
mental health
VA to provide mental health care to veterans with ‘bad paper’ discharges
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin making mental health care services available to veterans with other-than-honorable discharges who urgently need it, VA
March 7, 2017
7:06 pm
employment
Trailblazing Women Veterans
On March 17, 1917, when Loretta Perfectus Walsh enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, she became the first woman allowed to serve outside of a
March 7, 2017
4:25 am
mental health
PTSD: A Lasting Impact of War
“…In January of ’06 for the very first time in my life, I went to the VA and I said, with tears in my eyes,
March 6, 2017
8:55 am
memorials
Vietnam veterans memorial revealed at Roseburg VA
As the blasts of the 21-gun salute faded across the dry gray sky, a military musician began to play Taps on the bugle. A crowd
March 5, 2017
9:03 am