Veterans

Veterans to receive IVF treatment from VA

The Department of Veterans Affairs will start offering in vitro fertilization services to injured veterans for the first time in March, under new rules. The move comes just a few months after Congress dropped...

Veterans and Service dogs

Veterans may have returned from fighting in foreign wars, but the war continues inside them. Vets are now finding an unexpected friendship that is helping them deal with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Service dogs...

Veteran themed logo won Google competition

Each year, Google invites students to redesign the company logo based on a provided theme. For 2013, the Doodle 4 Google directions were simple: Illustrate your best day ever. Out of 130,000 submissions, a...

Veterans Get Virtual Visits to Memorials

For elderly or disabled veterans who are unable to travel, there are some sacred tributes to their service that they will never be able to visit – like the new WWII Memorial in Washington...

Veterans and Horses

To most people, the animals in veteran Tice Ridley’s menagerie look like they're living a comfortable life of leisure. But the five goats, two alpacas, two rabbits, potbellied pig, cat, guinea pig, dog and...

Veterans Given Federal Grant To Help With Homelessness

A $500,000 federal grant has been issued in the interests of keeping local veterans from being homeless in the country they served. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin met with local vets recently to see how...

Veterans Commemorated in Wreath Ceremony

At the Gates of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Sunnyvale California, dozens of family members and volunteers laid Christmas wreaths on the graves of 200 veterans who had served in the U.S. military. Volunteers and families...

Veterans – Love and War

Journalist Sebastian Junger was embedded with soldiers in the Korengal Valley during the war in Afghanistan. One of the reasons some veterans miss war, he says, is because it fulfills a deep human need...

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