VVA Chapter 272

If you are a veteran in emotional crisis and need help RIGHT NOW

Call this toll-free number 1-800-273-8255, available 24/7, and tell them you are a veteran.

All calls are confidential.

National Call Center for Homeless Veterans:

1-877-4AID-VET

or

1-877-424-3838

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Fourteen Vietnam Vets Needed for Agent Orange Claims Research Project

Graduate student at Johns Hopkins University seeks Vietnam vets for a comparative study of the VA’s “Fast Track Agent Orange Claims Processing System”. The study involves interviews with two groups of seven Vietnam vets each who have filed a VA claim of service connection for any of the three following conditions: ischemic heart disease, hairy cell and other B-Cell leukemias and Parkinson’s disease – one group of seven who’ve filed using the on-line fast track system and one group of seven who has not used the fast track system. For more information, contact Kelly Campbell at kcampbell826@gmail.com or 301/575-7318 by October 25th.

NOTE: this study’s I.R.B. documentation has been filed and reviewed by VVA’s I.R.B. research officer and judged to be in compliance with all applicable human subjects research guidelines.

Check out the National Website to learn more on Agent Orange at http://www.vva.org/

You Can Learn more on Facebook site:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vietnam-Veterans-of-America/122123037828089

To Attend Your Monthly Membership Meeting 

To Attend on the 1st Saturday of Every Month at High Noon at the Onslow Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Join Vietnam Veterans and Friends as the Rolling Thunder group reads the POW/MIA's names still unaccounted for. The reading will continue until everyone is home!

Vietnam Veterans of America is the nation’s only congressionally chartered veteran’s service organization dedicated to the needs of Vietnam-era veterans and our families. VVA’s founding principle is, “Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another.”

I came across "A Military Man's Promise" on Facebook and wanted to share it with you all, it begins . . .

"I cannot promise you every night of my life. I cannot promise to be beside you for every difficult moment, every trial, and every hardship. In truth, I can promise you that I will not be with you for most. I will leave you at inconvenient times. Any special date to us may be tainted with the anniversary of the death of one of my friends. I will ask you to take over whatever life we have built together for months and years at a time. And will then crash back into that life that you have used your sweat, your tears and your heartache to keep together, and try to take it back as I knew it before.

CLICK ON SECTION at Top of Page "THOUGHS OF AMERICA" to read the rest of it.