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September 15, 2021

 

Marine veteran imprisoned in Russia refused consideration of case by court A top Russian court declined to hear a U.S. Marine veteran's petition to be turned over to his home country to serve the remainder of his prison term for an espionage conviction. READ MORE

More VA health care workers get coronavirus vaccine as deadline approaches to prove status While more employees are getting vaccinated, the department is working out a process to discipline and ultimately terminate workers who refuse the vaccines or fail to get an approved exemption. About 380,000 employees are subject to the mandate, and many face a deadline of Oct. 8 to show proof of vaccination. READ MORE

‘Get on my back. I’ll carry you:’ Army officers recall their escape from the Pentagon on 9/11 As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, retired Army officers told us what it was like to be inside the Pentagon that day. READ MORE   ‘They want to make sure their loved ones are not forgotten:’ Organizers feel urgency to establish Global War on Terrorism Memorial With the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks Saturday, the foundation is putting a renewed focus toward establishing a Global War on Terrorism Memorial as a place for veterans to gather and other Americans to learn about conflicts such as Afghanistan and Iraq. READ MORE   Two veterans file class-action lawsuit against Air Force over ‘bad paper' discharges Certain discharges, also known as “bad paper,” carry a stigma and prevent veterans from receiving many government benefits, such as Department of Veterans Affairs home loans, health care and education benefits. READ MORE

As a child, she wrote to a WWII vet. He carried the letter everywhere, and 12 years later, they finally met. When they met for the first time, they both broke down in tears. Dashauna Priest, 21, who went on to join the Army National Guard, embraced her pen pal Frank Grasberger, 95. READ MORE   Missing veteran’s body decayed in VA stairwell for a month; report details how it happened A U.S. Army veteran died in a stairwell of a Veterans Administration housing facility and sat there for a month because no one thought to check the stairs — despite them being just down the hall from his room, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Veterans Affairs. READ MORE   The therapists who helped following 9/11 needed to help themselves There were concentric circles of trauma that rippled through Americans after the Sept. 11 attacks 20 years ago. The center of those circles are the survivors and their family members, the immediate impact of that attack on them searing and obvious. Then there were the first responders, the firefighters, the medical teams, the police officers and others who recovered and rescued. READ MORE   Retired Wright-Patterson general to receive oldest Dayton-area volunteer leadership recognition Retired Lt. Gen. Richard V. “Dick” Reynolds, a stalwart advocate of Air Camp and more than a few other noteworthy causes, will be the 70th recipient of the region’s 2021 Citizen Legion of Honor Award from the Presidents Club of Dayton. READ MORE   Lawrence Brooks, oldest living WWII veteran, celebrates 112th birthday Veteran and Louisiana native Lawrence Brooks celebrated his 112th birthday on Sunday at his home in Central City as residents gathered for a drive-by celebration hosted by the National World War II Museum. READ MORE   Vietnam War photos returned to former Air Force photographer In 1968, a young U.S. Air Force captain assigned as a photographer was trekking through the cities and countryside of South Vietnam focusing his lens on city scenes, infantrymen and the casualties of war. Fifty-three years later, Richard Pitera was reunited with at least a thousand of those photos he took during those dangerous days. READ MORE

 

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