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Kansas Legal Services helped Navy veteran, attacked by pirates, secure disability benefits
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VA and the Biden-Harris Administration announce new government-wide website, call center to protect Veterans from fraud and scams
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VA takes steps to expand access to benefits for Veterans who served at K2 and their survivors
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VA accepting proposals for new graduate medical education initiative to expand health care access for Veterans
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VA ends mandatory overtime for most employees processing benefits claims
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Virginia lawmakers restore military tuition program funding, for now
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Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is a nonprofit that drives veterans to medical appointments, assist them in filing benefit claims (e.g., VA health benefits or Medicare health insurance) with the government and helps vets with medical, employment and other general needs. The DAV needs volunteers to:
- Drive veterans to appointments at Veterans Affairs hospitals around the country.
- Volunteer at VA hospitals.
- Assist veterans in your community with needs such as grocery shopping, running errands or helping with yard work.
A couple of different organizations build new homes or adapt existing homes for veterans with severe injuries. If you’re a contractor or tradesman, Building Homes for Heroes and Homes for Our Troops can both use your skills to help build homes for injured vets. If you don’t have building expertise, you can still get involved by donating funds, goods and services or land.
Stand Down programs for veterans who are homeless are local one- to three-day events that provide a single spot for vets to receive food, shelter, health screenings and other needs. To volunteer for a Stand Down event near you, check with the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.
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The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American epic drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to civilian life after coming home from World War II.
In 1989, The Best Years of Our Lives was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Where to Watch: Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video
This harrowing Best Picture Oscar winner examines the devastating impact of the Vietnam War on an entire community. Small-town buddies Mike (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage), and Nick (Christopher Walken) are captured together and brutalized. Mike returns home relatively unscathed, but Steven comes back a self-pitying paraplegic, while the tragic Nick doesn't come back at all, remaining in Saigon and ritualistically re-enacting his torture for money. The film's Vietnam sequences are hyperbolically surreal, but its meditation on survivor's guilt and a generation's loss of innocence is genuine. The movie is credited with inspiring the drive to build the Vietnam War memorial on the Washington Mall.
Where to Watch: YouTube, Google Play, Apple TV
The documentary, directed by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers, follows the first group of women sent into direct combat. These five women were originally supposed to deal with terrorized Iraqi women and families but ended up being sent, unprepared, into combat. The filmmakers interview the quintet about their combat experience and their work in adjusting to home life.
Where to Watch: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
