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November 28, 2015

VA to Start Search for New Appointments System

The Veterans Affairs Department in late September will begin accepting proposals for a new electronic appointments system.,The Veterans Affairs Department is shopping to replace an electronic appointments scheduling system that was manipulated by staff at dozens of VA hospitals to conceal the fact facilities were not meeting the needs of veterans trying to see a doctor.

November 28, 2015

Obama Dedicates Disabled Veterans’ Memorial in Washington

America’s disabled veterans were honored Sunday during the dedication of a national memorial that President Obama called a reminder to the nation of what it owes to those injured and wounded in combat.

November 28, 2015

Vet sues after burial with gay partner is denied by cemetery

Seventy-four-year-old Madelynn Taylor filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boise after she tried to make advance arrangements last year to have her ashes interred with Jean Mixner, whom she met on a blind date in 1995 and married in California in 2008 when gay marriage was briefly legal.

November 28, 2015

Civil War general's Medal of Honor discovered inside book at church sale

The medal Chamberlain received in 1893 for his heroism at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg is at the Pejepscot Historical Society.

November 28, 2015

Navy destroyer Zumwalt to be christened in Maine

The U.S. Navy is christening the first ship of its newest class of destroyers.

November 28, 2015

About time: WWII airmen receive long-overdue POW medals

Seven World War II era U.S. Army Air Forces personnel shot down and captured while fighting Hitler’s Nazi regime will finally receive long overdue Prisoner of War medals during a ceremony Wednesday at the Pentagon. For decades, the airmen were denied POW status after they were shot down over Germany, only to be later interned in a prison camp in Wauwilermoos, Switzerland.

November 28, 2015

IG Tells Congress VA Leaders Should Face Charges

Some VA hospital officials linked to manipulation of patient appointments will have to be charged if the VA wants employees to take it seriously.,Department of Veterans Affairs employees linked to manipulation of patient appointments will have to be charged criminally before the rest of the workforce takes the situation seriously, the VA's acting inspector general told Congress late Monday night.

November 28, 2015

Army veteran's wife gets erroneous letter from government declaring her husband dead

An 81-year-old Army veteran from Wisconsin wants the U.S. government to know he's alive and well, despite its information to the contrary.

November 28, 2015

Richard Faulkner, World War II veteran, awarded Purple Heart after declining honor 70 years ago

An 89-year-old World War II veteran who turned down a Purple Heart medal in 1944 was decorated with the honor on Saturday.

November 28, 2015

Bill 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, of 'Band of Brothers' fame, dies at 90

William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died. He was 90.