November 2024

DAVA Meeting Scheduled

The Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, Twin Lakes Unit 30 will be meeting on Wednesday November 20, 2024. The location will be the Heinz-Willett Wellness Center at Lake Forest Senior Living (formerly Good Samaritan), 300 Good Samaritan Drive, Mountain Home.
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Senate Speech Proposing First Presumptive Conditions for Great War Veterans

By the Veterans Administration After World War I, claims for disability from discharged soldiers poured into the offices of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the federal agency responsible for evaluating them. By mid-1921, the bureau had awarded some amount of compensation to 337,000 Veterans. But 258,000 had been denied benefits. Some of the men turned away were suffering from tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric disorders. These Veterans were often rebuffed not because bureau officials doubted the validity or seriousness of their ailments, but for a different reason: they could not prove their conditions were service connected.
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