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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates expressed his gratitude to the nation’s service members and their families in his annual Thanksgiving Day message. Video Here is the text of the secretary’s message: “In this season of hope, I want to say how uplifting it has been to get to know so many soldiers, sailors, airm...
WASHINGTON — In his 2008 Thanksgiving Day message, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted the wartime similarities between today and the proclamation of the national holiday 140 years ago. Here is the text of Mullen’s message: Citing the many blessings bestowed upon the United States, these timeless word...
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., gets so many holiday cards addressed to "A Recovering American Soldier" each year, they've enlisted the help of the Red Cross to handle them. Hospital officials can no longer accept cards addressed to the hospital. Instead, they're encouraging messages of support to be sent to the Red Cross "Ho...
VFW Commander-in-Chief Glen Gardner is once again calling upon veterans of the Vietnam War to search their memory and files for any information that might be of value in determining the fate of Vietnam’s 300,000 MIAs and might be of assistance in the recovery of their remains. Providing information of this nature to the Vietnamese government...
James Tuorila of East St. Cloud has been elected as the new surgeon general for the international Veterans of Foreign Wars organization. “I was humbled by it,” Tuorila said. “I never imagined I'd climb this high or this fast in the VFW. It also came as a surprise no one would run against me.” The VFW, which was founded 108...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Harleysville Insurance will sponsor a Free Call Day this Thanksgiving for U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait. That’s according to State Commander Larry Wade of the Department of Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars, which represents 119,000 combat veterans who have served in all wars dating back to ...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake vowed swift action after a handful of documents related to veterans’ applications for financial benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were found among documents identified for shredding. The documents, which were not duplicated in government files, could have ...
TheWreaths Across Americastory began over 15 years ago when Worcester Wreath Company (a for-profit commercial business from Harrington, Maine) began a tradition of placing wreaths on the headstones of our Nation's fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetery during the holidays. Over that period of time, Worcester Wreath has donated 90,000 wreaths...
Eleven years after he was recruited by the Army, Gabor Nap was courted by another time-honored organization: the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Over the past month, Sgt. Nap, a 31-year-old Iraq war vet, was invited to a brunch for recovering wounded veterans, attended a spaghetti social and dressed as the Phantom of the Opera for a Halloween party at t...
WASHINGTON — Walter Reed Army Medical Center officials want to remind those individuals who want to show their appreciation through mail to include packages, letters, and holiday cards addressed to 'Any Wounded Soldier' or 'A Recovering American Soldier' that Walter Reed cannot accept these packages in support of the decision by then Deputy U...
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