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Stars and Stripes Veterans News

June 23, 2021

 

New bill would make extra pandemic assistance permanent for homeless veterans 

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, introduced the Building Solutions for Veterans Experiencing Homelessness Act of 2021 this week. The committee discussed the measure during a hearing Wednesday.  

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House introduces bill merging two high-profile measures to combat military sexual assault

The new legislation would remove the decision to prosecute serious crimes in the military from the chain of command. Instead, the decision would fall to trained, independent military prosecutors.

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VA secretary vows to increase focus on veteran housing project in LA 

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough delivered an opening address Monday for the annual meeting of National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.

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3M found partly liable for veteran’s hearing loss in third trial over military-issued earplugs

The jury determined the Minnesota-based company failed to provide warnings about their product, though the earplug was not defective, according to court documents from the trial held in Pensacola, Fla.

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VA plans to offer gender-confirmation surgery to transgender veterans, reversing ban

The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving to provide gender-confirmation surgery through its health care coverage, reversing a 2013 ban, VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced Saturday.

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Veteran sentenced to prison after promising six million N95 masks he couldn’t deliver to VA

While he was never paid for his $38.5 million in contracts with VA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Air Force veteran Robert Stewart Jr. wasted critical time and gave officials a false sense of hope that more than 6 million masks were on the way.

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Jill Biden tells English surf therapy group about her board

U.S. first lady Jill Biden told members of a British group that uses surfing as therapy that she once owned a surfboard and it was "white with a big butterfly" on it.

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Community gathers for return of WWII soldier's remains

Lyle Reab's remains were interred in the family plot — relocated from an unknown soldier grave in Ardennes American Cemetery at Neupré, Belgium — and placed alongside those of his parents, Willis Harry and Daisy, in the cemetery.

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John Daly partners with Iraq War veteran Ed Pulido on Heart of a Lion Foundation

Major Ed Pulido teamed with PGA Tour Champions star Daly to launch the John Daly-Major Ed Heart of a Lion Foundation last October. Pulido said their fundraising events brought in $260,000 in the first three months and they’re on track to total $1 million in the inaugural year.

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Veterans court program graduate is ‘as tough as they come’

People typically go to court to be judged for the wrongs they’ve committed against society, not to be praised for being superstars. But when a former drug addict and thief uses the programs and resources available to change her old ways and start anew, a court proceeding turns into a celebration.

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Decorated WWII veteran Joseph Capone dies at 98

After graduating from Westinghouse High School in 1940, Capone enlisted in the Army, where he served on the Western Front, from January 1943 through December 1945, as an infantryman in Company E, 415th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division, also called the Timberwolf Division.

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