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News Articles: veterans

Marine Corps veteran Ed O'Connor is seen outside his home in Fredericksburg, Va. He is among tens of thousands of veterans who took a COVID forbearance on a VA home loan. But the VA's program ended abruptly in October of 2022 and many veterans were asked to either pay all the missed payments or face foreclosure.

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  • Investigations

Veterans fear the VA's new foreclosure rescue plan won't help them

A pause in foreclosures after an NPR investigation may be of no help to many vets. They were already pushed into costly loan modifications after a move by the VA stranded them in a tough spot.

December 01, 2023
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
Veterans John Follmer, right, and Alejandro Rocha, left, do outreach on on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. They met Chris Brown, center, and offered to connect him with veterans services.

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  • National

The answer to veterans homelessness could be one of LA's most expensive neighborhoods

A massive VA campus in West Los Angeles is finally housing hundreds of vets, and may finally change the city's worst-in-the-nation status on veterans homelessness.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
Ronal Acuna,Jr. warms up at Truist Park before the Atlanta Braces home opener on April 6, 2023.

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GPB evening headlines for November 10, 2023

About one in eight families of active-duty soldiers and airmen in Georgia used a food bank or pantry to make ends meet. 

Three Atlanta Braves players win the Silver Slugger Award.

November 10, 2023
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  • GPB News Radio
Patricia Liddell, a retired U.S. Army master sergeant, is part of American Legion Post 333 and is the Veterans Service Officer for Alabama and Georgia and helps arrange funeral services for indigent and homeless veterans.

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  • News

'This is horrible.’ Homeless veterans are being buried in paupers graves in Georgia city

Columbus has long been a home to veterans of the military with Fort Moore, formerly Fort Benning, having been a part of the area for over 100 years.

August 29, 2023
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By:
  • Kelby Hutchison
Sen. Ossoff pictured with a service member.

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  • National Security

Ossoff touts successes in extending care for service members and national security improvement

Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has successfully led bipartisan efforts to improve national security and the quality of life for Georgia service members, military families, and veterans. The success comes from his work with the FY24 National Defense Authorization Act, which Ossoff helped pass last week in Congress.

August 03, 2023
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
Ret. Lt. Col. Bob Alexander stayed closeted in the Air Force for 20 years because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. He came out when the policy ended, and when he retired, he decided to help those who weren't discharged honorably because of their sexual orientation. He resides in Washington D.C., and works as a cybersecurity attorney.

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  • National

Discharged over sexual orientation, military still owes thousands of vets

Twelve years after repeal of the ban on gay and lesbian troops serving openly, no one in the military or Veterans Administration knows how many vets are still without the benefits they're owed.

July 02, 2023
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
 On March 3, Genesis Joy House founder and CEO Margaret Flowers, third from right, joins volunteers and staff at the Warner Robins Cracker Barrel for a birthday celebration. The nonprofit aims to end chronic homelessness among women veterans. Photo submitted by Genesis Joy House

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  • News

Georgia organizations embrace long road to end veterans homelessness

Thousands of former service members rely on government agencies and nonprofits to find a place to live and access resources including meals, counseling, job placement assistance and health care. 

May 30, 2023
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
A nationwide survey by the RAND Corporation found that veterans were less likely than the general population to support extremist groups.

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  • National Security

Survey: Surprising to some, veterans are less likely to support extremism

A RAND Corporation survey found that Americans who served in the military support extremist views at rates lower than nonveterans.

May 23, 2023
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
A backlit photo of a person extending a hand

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  • Health

Atlanta nonprofit to use $4M to fill behavioral health care gaps in access to local services

A federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will help CHRIS 180, as a certified community behavioral health center, to connect people to 24-hour crisis care.

February 16, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Gavin Kinney holds up a sign thanking veterans at the 2015 Veterans Day Parade in New York City.

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  • Family

These 12 restaurants are offering discounts on Veterans Day

Dozens of companies across the U.S. are offering freebies and discounts to veterans and active-duty military members on Veterans Day.

November 11, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
GPB News NPR

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  • Science

CTE is rare in brains of deceased service members, study finds

Despite a high risk of brain injuries, military personnel rarely develop a disabling brain condition often found in former boxers and football players.

June 14, 2022
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Former Georgia running back and Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker attends a college football game between UAB and Georgia, Sept. 11, 2021, in Athens, Ga. Police in Irving, Texas once confiscated a gun from Walker following a domestic disturbance because the former football legend talked about having “a shoot-out with police.” The revelation was included in a 2001 police report that recently obtained by The Associated Press.

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  • Politics

Herschel Walker's ties to veterans program face scrutiny

Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military who struggle with mental health. The football legend and leading Republican Senate candidate says the outreach is done through a program he created, called Patriot Support. But court filings and company documents offer a more complicated picture.

May 23, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Rafael Rivera's tattoo of an American Flag in the shape of Long Island, with a banner from John 15:13.

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  • National Security

Sick veterans demand medical coverage for illnesses caused by burn pits

President Biden is urging Congress to send a burn-pits bill to his desk.

March 09, 2022
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
In this April 28, 2011, photo, an Afghan national army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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  • National

House to vote on bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits

The bill would open up federal health care benefits to millions of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans exposed to toxic substances during their service.

March 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Science

Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why

Arts therapies appear to ease brain disorders from Parkinson's to PTSD. Now, artists and scientists have launched an effort to understand how these treatments change the brain.

February 19, 2022
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  • Jon Hamilton
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