This year, VA Voluntary Service —one of the largest volunteer programs in the federal government—is celebrating its 70th anniversary.
While you may not know Bill Hale, you probably have someone like him in your community – someone who gives a Vet a ride to the hospital, or goes around collecting clothes for the next homeless stand-down event.
During this year’s Black History Month, let us honor and celebrate all African American Veterans who have risked, and often sacrificed, their lives in service to this great nation.
In 1918, at the 11th hour of the 11th day […]
In this series of blogs, I’ll be talking about colleges: […]
Fourteen years after the end of the war in Vietnam and several years after the creation of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C., the state of New Jersey finally had a fitting monument for the men and women who lost their lives in Southeast Asia. The memorial, located on the grounds of the PNCBank Arts Center, was designed by Hien Nguyen of Marlboro, New Jersey. Nguyen, an architect, is a former South Vietnamese citizen forced to flee his country with his mother and sister after the communist takeover in 1975. His family fought at the side of American troops during the entire length of the Vietnam War.
Members of The Last Patrol were told they could expect muscle stiffness and sore legs, shin splints, pain and tingling in the feet, and blisters. They were told the temperature could spike to 90 degrees and the weather could turn rainy and humid.
This is National Volunteer Week, a time to celebrate service. Time to salute those great men and women in every VA medical center who give of themselves to others. And time to invite everyone else to come along and discover the power of making a difference.
The VA health care model is to deliver proactive, personalized, […]
The mission is clear for the many dedicated health care […]
In a recent message to VA employees, Dr. Carolyn M. […]
On Feb 2, 2015, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the […]