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  • Veteran Army medic finds healing at Summer Sports Clinic

    Veteran Army medic finds healing at Summer Sports Clinic

    Army Veteran “Doc” Jackson spent his career as a medic saving lives. He rediscovered his passion at the 2022 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic.

  • Milwaukee VA employee is Wisconsin Woman Veteran of Year

    Milwaukee VA employee is Wisconsin Woman Veteran of Year

    VA employee Darcie Greuel, also a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, was honored by Gov. Tony Evers as Woman Veteran of the Year.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Thomas H. Kochanek

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Thomas H. Kochanek

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Thomas H. Kochanek, who served as a medic in New Guinea, the Philippines and Japan during World War II.

  • #DesertStorm30: Out to save people

    #DesertStorm30: Out to save people

    Army Veteran Harry Low has always been on a mission to save other people. His mission started in 1988, when he followed two older brothers in the service. He was a combat medic in an engineering unit, stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. By 1992, Low’s mission to care for military ended when he left the Army. He picked up a new mission, caring for Veterans as a VA employee.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Michael Rodriguez

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Michael Rodriguez

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Michael Rodriguez, who served as a medic with the 5th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Gulf War.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Carl Thorson

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Carl Thorson

    Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Carl Lennart Thorson, who served as a medic during World War II in the European theater.

  • Medic recalls landing on Omaha Beach and the profound impact on his life

    Medic recalls landing on Omaha Beach and the profound impact on his life

    On the 74th anniversary of D-Day, Penobscot tribal elder Charles Norman Shay returns to the beaches of the Normandy Landing.

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