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All posts during January, 2009

IAVA Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff on CNN
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on January 31

On January 30th, IAVA's Executive Director and Founder Paul Rieckhoff discussed the alarming rise in U.S. Army suicides in Iraq and Afghanistan with CNN's Heidi Collins.

New VA Deputy Secretary Nominated
Posted by Meghan on January 30

Today, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the nation's first and largest nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, issued the following statement in response to President Obama's nomination of W. Scott Gould to serve as the next Deputy Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs:

Daily News Summary 1/30/09
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on January 30

Here are some of today's top stories and happenings at IAVA.  

IAVA Issues Groundbreaking Mental Health Report
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on January 29

Today, IAVA issued a groundbreaking mental health report, Invisible Wounds: Psychological and Neurological Injuries Confront a New Generation of Veterans, after a new military report revealed U.S. Army suicides hit a three-decade high in 2008.

Daily News Summary 1/29/09
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on January 29

Here are some of today’s top stories and happenings at IAVA.

VA To Offer Health Care to Previously Ineligible Veterans
Posted by Tom Tarantino on January 28

Department of Veterans Affairs News Release January 8, 2009  

Help veterans in need and vote
Posted by Tom Tarantino on January 28

Home and Garden TV (HGTV) has chosen 8 community veterans home from across the nation to participate in their cities for change contest. The two community homes with the most votes receive the remodels that each so desperately needs. You can review the 8 finalists and vote for the one that you feel is most deserving. You can vote once a day until March 2. The winners will be announced during the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway on March 15.

IAVA Delivers 2009 Legislative Agenda to Congress
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on January 28

Today, IAVA's Director of Government Affairs, Todd Bowers, presented IAVA's 2009 Legislative Agenda to Congress in testimony before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.

From Falluja to Washington, DC: Iraq Veteran Unveils New Roadmap for Congress
Posted by Paul Rieckhoff on January 28

I barely recall what I ate for breakfast yesterday let alone what I was doing four years ago. But ask Staff Sergeant Todd Bowers where he was and what he was doing on October 17, 2004 at 11:34am, and he’ll start rattling off the details.  

Daily News Summary 1/28/09
Posted by Michelle McCarthy on January 28

Here are some of today's top stories and happenings at IAVA.

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Veterans Day 2009

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