Veteran’s Review

Have you or someone you know ever have been approached by someone claiming that they will assist you in obtaining benefits from the Veterans’ Affairs? Also you were charged a fee for their services.
If you have, I’m sorry to tell you that you may have just been scammed. It has been happening randomly across the […]

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** From the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2008) - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that on-line applications are now accepted from veterans, survivors and other claimants filing initial applications for disability compensation, pension, education, and vocational rehabilitation and employment benefits without the additional requirement to submit a signed paper […]

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He has made several appearances in Movies, Television, and done countless voiceovers in animated shows.
Perhaps he is most remembered as the Drill Sergeant in “Full Metal Jacket“.
Also, he is the host of one of the most popular shows on the History Channel… “Mail Call”.
R. Lee Ermey has one of the most recognizable personalities and voices […]

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Introduced by Rep. Martin Griffin on June 4, 2008, to require funeral homes to make an effort to discover whether a person to be cremated was a veteran, and if so notify the family that free burial is available in a veterans cemetery.
Rep. Martin Griffin is from the 64th District. Jackson County Michigan.
Other sponsors of […]

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From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Peake: Provide Counseling for All Combat Veterans
WASHINGTON – Combat veterans will receive readjustment counseling and other assistance in 39 additional communities across the country where the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will develop Vet Centers by fall 2009.
“Community-based Vet Centers — already in all 50 states — are a […]

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Grounds, reading tools, and infrastructure improvements planned
Contact: Michigan Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Security and Emergency Management Division 517.335.6735
LANSING, MICH. - The Veterans Memorial Park Commission and the Departments of Management and Budget and Military and Veterans Affairs are pleased to announce the approval of a project to refurbish and update the Vietnam […]

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Akaka, Feinstein and Kerry urge Veterans’ Affairs Secretary to end prohibition of voter registration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Senator John Kerry (D-MA), sent a letter today to Veterans Affairs Secretary James B. Peake, calling on him to end the current […]

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As of August 1, 2008. The GI fulltime student payment rate will increase to $1,321.00 a month.
 The increase will soon be 20%. An increase of nearly $220.00 a month.
In an announcement from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Montgomery GI Bill will soon be worth $47,556.00. That is a total increase of nearly $8,000 since […]

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In a recent comment I received about the authority of ordering the American Flag. I decided that I would post the Code. As it details how the Governor can make such an order.
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Under Section 7 of Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code, 4 USC 7, Governor […]

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For Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Matthew L. Hilton
LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today ordered United States flags throughout the state of Michigan and on Michigan waters lowered for one day on Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in honor of Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Matthew L. Hilton, of Livonia , who died […]

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