#veterans

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#administration #amount #approved #billion #care

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#avenue #collect #collected #effort #fifth

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. ↗

— John Doolittle

#around #belief #country #democracy #freedom

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#feel #gentle #gentler #hard #home

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#america #embody #founded #ideals #more

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#decade #faith #funding #healthcare #increased

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#commitment #eight #established #freedom #generations

As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me. ↗

— Al Kaline

#ballpark #be the first #days #easiest #fact

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#around #away #built #bunch #drunk

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#congress #contracts #donors #members #must