VA News Releases

** VA Rolling Out Suicide Hotline Ads in DC - WASHINGTON – Veterans and other residents of metropolitan Washington, D.C., have begun seeing outreach information on buses and inside subway cars about the suicide prevention hotline of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (7/25/08)
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** VA Names New South Carolina National Cemetery - WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs has named the national cemetery to be built near Columbia, S.C., as the “Fort Jackson National Cemetery.” VA also awarded a $2.53 million construction contract for the initial phase of development to International Public Works, LLC, of North Charleston. (7/25/08)
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** VA, Monster Partner for Veteran Job Seekers - WASHINGTON – In a new plan to help veterans find jobs, the Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with Monster Government Solutions, a division of Monster Worldwide, Inc., a company that markets online employment services to employers and job seekers. (7/22/08)
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** VA Reburies War of 1812 General at Congressional Cemetery - WASHINGTON – Descendants of a War of 1812 general officer who died in 1841 witnessed his re-interment during a ceremony July 17 at a historic gravesite administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (7/18/08)
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** VA Helps Vets Reengage with Life - WASHINGTON – From the laboratory to open air, making medical and mental miracles are the focus of the July edition of “The American Veteran,” the monthly half-hour news magazine from the Department of Veterans Affairs. (7/18/08)
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** VA’s National PTSD Center Deputy Honored - WASHINGTON -- Dr. Paula Schnurr, deputy executive director for VA’s National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), received the 3rd annual Ladies Home Journal “Health Breakthrough Award” for her work with PTSD and women veterans. (7/18/08)
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**Heroism and Athletics Converge in Omaha for Veterans Wheelchair Games - WASHINGTON – The 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, scheduled to take place July 25–29 in Omaha, Neb., will attract more than 500 veterans with disabilities. It has become the largest annual wheelchair sports competition in the world. Veterans from conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq will again join their fellow veterans in 17 competitive events. (7/17/08)
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**VA Announces On-Line Claims Applications - WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that on-line applications are now accepted from veterans, survivors and other claimants filing initial applications for disability compensation, pension, education, and vocational rehabilitation and employment benefits without the additional requirement to submit a signed paper copy of the application. (7/16/08)