Veterans News Bureau

The Worcester Wreath Company from Harrington, Maine, has donated about 90,000 wreaths for the program since its president, Morrill Worcester, started the annual tradition in 1992. Working with the National Cemetery Administration and a bevy of volunteers, the company has made balsam fir wreaths with bright red bows to adorn ...

David K. Rehbein, National Commander of The American Legion, and Desiree A. Stoy, National President of The American Legion Auxiliary, have just completed their annual visit to Taiwan at the invitation of General Kao Hua-chu, Minister of Veterans Affairs of the Republic of China. The American Legion officials, representing the world’s ...

The retired general was ousted from his role as army chief of staff at the start of the Iraq war. He is now expected to fix a broken VA and to ensure proper treatment and benefits for veterans.

President-elect Barack Obama will name former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki to head the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “General Shinseki is exactly the right person who is going to be able to make sure that we honor our troops when they comes home,” Obama said during an interview with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many of the thousands of troops who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of long-term health problems including depression and Alzheimer's-like dementia, but it's impossible to predict how high those risks are, researchers say. About 22 percent of wounded troops have a brain ...

VA News for the week of December 1, 2008.

Ground combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted just 100 hours, but it's meant 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans. Those who came home and complained of symptoms such as memory loss and joint pain are even sicker. As their lives unraveled and their ...

Expressing deep gratitude for the enormous sacrifices made by the three million living disabled American veterans, including the more than 53,000 who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, philanthropist Lois Pope presented today a check for $5 million to help build the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. To be ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has sent the October 2008 report from the VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) for review and recommendations. The October report from the advisory committee identified potential causes for -- and asserted ...

A Virginia veteran is speaking out after police threatened to arrest him for distributing ‘Buddy Poppies,’ or memorial flowers, at the National Mall in Washington D.C. Now the Charlottesville-based Rutherford Institute has stepped in and filed a first amendment lawsuit against the National Park Police. John Miska is known in the community ...