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    Americans, both men and women, have sacrificed much for our country. We get veterans from various different tragedies and times in the United States. Our country is still home to veterans from World War II, the Vietnam War, and those influenced to serve from the tragedy of 9/11. I know that multitudes of veterans would like people to know how hard it was for them and out of reverence and honor I will tell of many struggles that veterans faced then and now. I extensively respect, honor, and value…

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    Access to health care is characterized as the timely use of service to achieve the best possible health care outcome. Active-duty military and veterans get their health care through the DOD's military health system, TRICARE, and the VA's health care system, respectively. Discontinuity of care in both those systems does occur. Electronic health records offer the guarantee of limiting fragmentation of care, however the DOD and VA have not yet coordinated their health records. There are…

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    country. I feel also veterans need of companionship from people to hear their story. It is very important to make sacrifices for people served the country as well as helping them in their time of need. The most interested point, No Veteran Dies Alone (NVDA), is a volunteer program to take care of all veterans during life and in death. This program focus on “no one faces the challenge of death alone”. The country provide the insurance to cover hospice and palliative care. Veterans who in hospice…

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    for Homeless Veterans is Priceless and Will Make You Wonder Why our Country Isn't Making Sure No Veteran is Ever Homeless! Photo: http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/homeless-veterans-free-houses-community-kansas-33.jpg Source: BoredPanda and Veterans Community Project http://www.boredpanda.com/homeless-veterans-free-houses-community-kansas/ http://veteranscommunityproject.org/services/ Views: 40K Likes: 20K Shares: Unknown Comments: 22 Homeless veterans. That term…

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven starts with the introduction of a man named Eddie. He is crippled war veteran of World War II. Eddie had a very difficult life because of his abusive drunk father. The only good part of the beginning of his life is his caring mother. His father is a maintenance man at a well known amusement park called Ruby Pier. The story begins with Eddie’s death as a 83 year old man when he attempted to save a young girl's life from a falling rollercoaster ride. Then through…

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    The question being asked of me is “Why Veterans are Important to Our Nation’s History and Future?” Veterans are important to me because I live with two of them and I have a lot of them in my family. Without them, I wouldn’t know the reason why we have people sacrificing themselves for our country. My Grandpa, Roy Noble, always said that “War is not good but fighting for our country is,” I didn’t really understand that until I realized without them we wouldn’t have a free country. Britain would…

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    everyone respect, especially our veterans. There’s many people that sacrificed their lives to help all of our daily lives better. I believe in an America where everybody respects our veterans. They fought and sacrificed their lives for us so we could have freedom. We could have our rights, freedom of speech, and they have improved our equality. A military veteran is someone who served honorably in one of the branches of US Military. “What is a veteran? A ‘veteran’ - whether active duty,…

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    How Veteran’s Service has Improved My Opportunities in My Community. My Father is an active duty Soldier in the in the army, he is a sergeant in human resources. He has served since 1998 to this day. He has deployed to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Korea. He has participated in the global war on terrorism, and when he participated, he helped a wounded warrior to medical attention. He was in Operation Iraqi Freedom campaigns, Iraqi governance, and the National Resolution campaign. He took…

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    Veterans are heroes in the eyes of many citizens of the United States. There are over twenty million veterans who have risked their lives to help give this nation a fear free life. They serve and protect the land for their children, spouses, parents, family, and neighbors. Yet they are not treated with the love and respect they truly deserve. Those who have served took a devastating loss when the, “House Appropriations Subcommittee marked up the 2016 Veterans Affairs funding bill, and slashed…

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    19% percent of students graduating high school in America are illiterate and 32,000,000 adults can not read. The amount of food waste generated by the US could eradicate world hunger four times over and veterans who have had their legs blown off by IEDS in Afghanistan are waiting ten to fifteen years to receive their benefits after serving this country. Meanwhile, childhood poverty does not exist in Norway. India, France, Russia, and most other industrialized as well as non-industrialized…

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