Gene Russell, an Army Veteran and VA employee, submitted the winning design for the 2023 Veterans Day Poster Contest.
The I Am Not Invisible campaign brings awareness to the barriers and challenges that women Veterans face in obtaining health care and other services.
Why do we need Women Veterans Day? Women Veterans Day, also referred to as Women Veterans Recognition Day and Women Veterans Appreciation Day, is the anniversary of the day the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act (pub.L. 80–625, 62 Stat. 356) was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on June 12, 1948. Prior to then, only women nurses could serve in the regular and reserve forces during peacetime.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) thanks senior leaders whose tenure has ended as their deputies step up to lead temporarily.
The “I Am Not Invisible (IANI)” photography project aims to increase awareness about women Veterans. They make up ten percent of the Veteran.
we are a tenacious, determined band of sisters so nevertheless, we persist, making our place simply because it would not occur to us that the place is not ours to inhabit.