Filipino World War II veterans to get P1.2 billion in benefitsSamonte, Angelo S
Podgor discusses the inability of more than eighty-eight percent of American servicemembers who were exposed to atomic radiation to recover benefits for diseases caused by that exposure. The author examines the three statutes that grant compensation to atomic veterans as well as the policies and ...
* G.I. Bill- gave a bunch of benefits for WWII veterans including beneficial mortgages, loans to start business, tuition assistance and living expenses* Used by millions of G.I.'s Stalin * Leader of the Soviet Union from the mid 1920's until he died in 1953* Ruled with an iron fist...
NORTH TEXAS –This holiday season the children of one of the last surviving World War II veterans are thanking the I-Team for stepping in to make sure their 98-year-old father spends Christmas at home getting the healthcare he deserves. Shelby Dawson...
A 94-year-old World War II veteran from Indiana has received France's highest military honor for his wartime service. His wounds, severe enough to send him home, were listed in unit paperwork. But in the blur of wartime bureaucracy, they were lost. ...
“It taught them evasive ways to survive” is not how Tom Brokaw wanted us to look on the experience of American veterans of World War Two. But it’s the sort of bracingly brutal respect for honesty that makes Mary Lee Settle’s writing seem at times like a slap across the face. Not...
This program with Bill Moyers chronicles the return of World War II veterans to the battlefields of their youth. From D-Day to the Rhine follows the veterans as they go ashore at Normandy, move on through the Ardennes, visit battle sites such as the Battle of the Bulge, and wind up ...
The U.S. war machine and the military-industrial complex are actually running America, said U.S. political commentator Jimmy Dore. "Who benefits? I'll tell you right now, your enemy is not China or Russia. Your enemy is the military-industrial complex fleecing this country to the tune of...
A physical therapist born in Virginia, Bessie Blount Griffin, spent time looking after veterans of World War II, helping them use their feet and teeth instead of the hands they lost during combat. She developed a device to allow amputees to feed themselves and offer them an improved sens...
In November, an over 30-member delegation of the Flying Tigers veterans and their descendants visited Kunming, the starting point of "the Hump," a vital airlift route over the Himalayas and the primary way the Allies supplied China between 1942 and 1945 in World War II. ...