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Veterans Society of GMU Race for Veterans
Fairfax Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day Proclamation on March 23rd
This is a reminder about the issuance of the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day Proclamation by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on March 23 at the Government Center in Fairfax. Please note that the reception remains at 0830 but the Board has moved the presentation of this proclamation and 9 others to 0930. The reception will be in the Forum at the bottom of the lobby stairs.
For more details, contact Bruce Waxman at bruce_waxman@vva227.org
Veterans Campaign Workshop April 24th at GW University
Veterans Campaign is pleased to announce our second veterans campaign training workshop. It will be held on April 24th in Washington, D.C., and is generously being hosted by the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.
This non-partisan, non-ideological one-day campaign training event will be provided free-of-charge to a select group of veterans; if you or someone you know is interested in applying for this opportunity, please visit or direct the interested parties to our online application.
Even if you applied in the past, we would like you to provide us with some additional information (there is a space on the application to reference previous applications). While Veterans Campaign was originally founded on a first-come-first-serve basis of enrolling participants, the large volume of interested veterans has driven us to shift to an application process.
If you are an alumnus/ae of our September 2009 workshop at Princeton, the event will feature similar content, however we will keep you posted on future alumni events which we are excitedly planning for!
Please consult our website to learn more about our curriculum, frequently asked questions, or to see Veterans Campaign in the news.
Also to find out more information in the future and to connect with like-minded veterans, find us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn pages.
If you have any enrollment questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at apply@veteranscampaign.org.
Are You A Millennial Veteran With A Great Idea?
If you’re a veteran of the Armed Services aged 18-34, and you have an idea of how to improve your community, campus, or installation – click here to tell us your idea and to apply for a complimentary ticket to Los Angeles to share your idea with 100 other veterans, and the whole nation. While there, you’ll stay in the luxurious DoubleTree Hotel and attend the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team’s opening game. Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to earn thousands of dollars to fund your idea, in addition to a year of mentoring and support from other veterans – as well as a chance to appear on MTV.
Mobilize.org, in partnership with MTV, ServiceNation: Mission Serve, and with generous support from USO and the Goldhirsh and McCormick Foundations, is hosting Beyond the Welcome Home, a competition by and for veterans that will find and support the best veteran-led ideas from across America. Click here to learn more – and apply to join us in Los Angeles from April 1 – 3.
The team from Mobilize.org, ServiceNation, and MTV
Who’s Helping Our Wounded Vets?
The Pentagon estimates that as many as one in five American soldiers are coming home from war zones with traumatic brain injuries, many of which require round-the-clock attention. But lost in the reports of these returning soldiers are the stories of family members who often sacrifice everything to care for them.
One of our VMFC members, Mike Turner, who is also the Chief of Congressional Affairs with the Wounded Warrior Project helped to write Senate Bill 1963 – Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009, which is featured in the video above. Any help from VMFC members by emailing their Representatives and Senators would be greatly appreciated by Mike. He can be reached at chairman@loudoundemocrats.org.
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
The Virginia Chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is following through on a concept that was started as a grass roots effort in Whittier, California to basically say thank you to the brave soldiers returning home from Vietnam who were more often than not faced with social unrest and civil turmoil rather than the thank you they deserved.
The overall mission of the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day organization is to insure all honorably discharged veterans are received with more than just a thank you or a pat on the back when they have completed their tour of duty. However, their immediate focus is toward the debt of gratitude that Vietnam Veterans particularly deserve.
March 30th was chosen because it was on that date in 1973 that the U.S. Armed Forces completed withdrawal of combat troops.
Last year, Congress (patroned by Rep. Linda Sanchez and co-patroned by Frank Wolfe) passed a national Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. Each state chapter of VVA is now trying to get similar recognitions passed by state legislators.
In Virginia the state joint resolution is in progress. There was a hearing in the House of Delegates last Wednesday, January 20th. George Corbett, Secretary, Vietnam Veterans of America, Virginia State Council testified. House Joint Resolution No. 136 was patroned by Delegate David Bulova, et. al., and Senate Joint Resolution No. 42 was patroned by Senator Chap Petersen.
In Fairfax County on March 23rd at 8:30am, in the auditorium at the Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22035-0071, the Board of Supervisors will present Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 227 with a proclamation declaring March 30th as “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day”. Please consider being there in support of the proclamation. We want everyone, regardless of conflict. Please contact Bruce Waxman at bruce_waxman@vva227.org for further details.
Further details about “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day!” is available at www.whvvd.org.
Virginia is for Heroes 2010
The Virginia Wounded Warrior Program is proud to host the annual Virginia is for Heroes statewide conference addressing combat/operational stress and traumatic brain injury.
Conference participants include veterans and their family members; local, state and national leaders; subject matter experts; and those serving on the “front lines” of behavioral healthcare and supportive services.
Presenters will be sharing information about recent initiatives to partner with communities to expand behavioral healthcare and supportive services to veterans in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as those affected by previous conflicts.
There also will be opportunities to learn about the infrastructure established throughout Virginia as a result of the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program and to discuss and plan for regional resources.
Recognizing the importance of providing the best information available in order to support veterans and their families in their communities, this conference is offered free of charge.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
The Greater Richmond
Convention Center
403 North 3rd Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23219
More details available here.
Veterans Legislation
The Bills and Resolutions have now been filed for this year’s General Assembly session. There are a number of bills and resolutions that address Veterans and we will highlight some of them here on this website. In the mean time, you can follow all of them here.
What are your thoughts on any of these?