#veteran

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. ↗

— Steve Buyer

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We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#access #appointment #back #colleagues #concerns

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us. ↗

— Jim Davis

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This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland. ↗

— John Doolittle

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It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#comes #disability #disabled #illinois #list

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#bravery #day #embodied #how #i

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. ↗

— Maya Lin

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