The largest veteran graduating class from Judge Dwaine Thomas’ Monroe County Veterans Court since the court’s January 2014 inception; EIGHT! Criminal charges dismissed, errors corrected, lives straightened out. The graduating class included 2 Army, 3 Marines, 2 Navy, and 1 Air Force Veterans aged from 22 to 72. The class included Veterans from Bradley, McMinn,…
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If you receive a suspicious email from the Department of Veterans Affairs, DO NOT open the email or click on any attachments or links. VA does not send emails asking for personal information, threatening emails, or emails claiming to take adverse actions on claimants or beneficiaries (jail or lawsuits). If you receive any of these…
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Donald “Don” Walter Wallace Sr. is from Lincoln Park, Michigan. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 17 in 1949 and was stationed in Japan. In July 1950 when North Korea invaded the south Don was sent to Korea as the first troops in. He was a Cpl. Recon Scout with the…
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to propose adding certain rare respiratory cancers to the list of presumed service-connected disabilities in relation to military environmental exposure to particulate matter. VA determined through a focused review of scientific and medical evidence there is biologic plausibility between airborne hazards, specifically particulate matter, and carcinogenesis of the respiratory tract,…
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