For decades, disability ratings have been based on medical evidence and the real-world impact of a service-connected condition on a veteran’s life. Section 108 of the introduced Take Care of America’s Veterans Act — House Resolution 9237/Senate Bill 4744, sponsored by senior Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran — would move Congress directly into that process by changing how certain disabilities, including tinnitus and sleep apnea, are evaluated and compensated. There are more that 2...
VFW Post 1790 leaders surprised a local Vietnam veteran with the Quilt of Valor on April 9 at his home in Valley Stream, New York. Post 1790 Commander Kevin Hill, along with Senior Vice Kyle Carter and Junior Vice Patrick Clayton, presented Army veteran Alfred Bosco with the Post’s first Quilt of Valor. “Al Bosco was the first recipient to receive the Quilt of Valor since I have been at the Post,” Hill said of Bosco, a Purple Heart recipient who served in Vietnam with th...
“I was ready to move on with my life, but I didn’t have money for college,” said Nadine Willits. After high school, Willits, now 59, felt the pull to go out into the world and do something. But, like so many, she lacked the necessary resources. Then, she had an idea. “I decided to join the Army,” she said. “They would train me, pay me, give me a place to live, and best of all, I could jump out of airplanes!” Willits ended up serving in the Army for three years as a field...
Frank Thomas Vizza Jr., 43, could not help feeling like he had more to give. “I knew I could be doing more for my community, my country and myself. I was meant to do more,” he insisted. “So, I joined the Navy.” After serving as a corpsman from 2013 to 2017, Vizza found himself at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). His GI Bill educational benefits were about to run out when his boss at the UNLV Military and Veteran Services Center told Vizza about the VFW’s “Spor...
After returning home from a deployment to Afghanistan in 2012, Army veteran Sam George fell into drug addiction. The discipline, self-reliance and structure he established for himself from his time in service, he felt, had dissipated. According to the VA, more than 2.8 million veterans in 2023 reported having suffered from a substance abuse disorder within the past year. More than half of veterans suffering from PTSD are reported to have substance abuse disorders. Knowin...
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