TONIGHT: Cardinal & Pine to hold ‘Voices for Veterans’ event to highlight the devastating effects of proposed VA cuts

TONIGHT: Cardinal & Pine to hold ‘Voices for Veterans’ event to highlight the devastating effects of proposed VA cuts

In a panel discussion, veterans, doctors, nurses, and advocates will tell their stories, and call attention to the fatal consequences significant cuts would mean for veterans and military families. My grandfather served in the Army during World War II. I met him only once, a few months after I was born, when he was in the hospital dying of liver failure and my father placed me on his father’s chest. My grandfather had started drinking heavily wh…

‘We call it betrayal’: Veterans join Dems in D.C. to protest Trump’s sweeping VA job cuts | The Highland County Press

Veterans and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill this month protested the Trump administration’s planned cuts for the Department of Veterans Affairs that include slashing some 80,000 jobs, which many worry will affect the massive agency’s delivery of medical care and benefits.