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How Does Crisis Text Line Work?

https://www.crisistextline.org/texting-in

VA Shadow Rulers Had Sway Over Contracting and Budgeting: New disclosures and investigations are straining the three Trump associates’ relationship with the new VA secretary.

https://www.propublica.org/article/va-shadow-rulers-had-sway-over-contracting-and-budgeting?fbclid=IwAR0-hinrI9NufB__7B2QanBrhG0orW0CwbIUWEoajQS5ZEehtRAHckBkUyU

Veterans Advisory Commission 6-20-2018, Philadelphia City Council

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=veterans+advisory+commission

Veterans Advisory Commission 9-12-2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jDIrdfUXEs

Veterans Advisory Commission 12-12-2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6lvReuR_yk

Bill to extend Agent Orange benefits to U.S. Navy Vietnam vets dies in U.S. Senate

https://ktvq.com/news/montana-news/2018/12/10/bill-to-extend-agent-orange-benefits-to-u-s-navy-vietnam-vets-dies-in-u-s-senate/?fbclid=IwAR1Bq60qD4jUWRV2f7JJQH_11_4U612tshWeXpGVj2RiJAC1SEg-HIbwVG8

VA Hospitals Beat Non-VA on Many Quality Measures

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/906314

VA Rolls Out APIs to Improve Interoperability, EHR Data Access: VA is rolling out standards-based APIs to improve interoperability, EHR data access, and health IT innovation.

https://ehrintelligence.com/news/va-rolls-out-apis-to-improve-interoperability-ehr-data-access

Female Veterans Quietly Struggle With Sexual Harassment, Suicide

https://www.voanews.com/a/female-veterans-quietly-struggle-with-sexual-harassment-suicide/4692872.html

Rising Suicide Rates Among Younger Veterans Trigger Alarm Bells at VA

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/04/rising-suicide-rates-among-younger-veterans-trigger-alarm-bells-va.html

Veterans prefer telehealth consults for plastic surgery, study shows

https://news.yale.edu/2018/12/06/veterans-prefer-telehealth-consults-plastic-surgery-study-shows

VA Announces Telehealth Partnerships With Walmart, Philips, T-Mobile: The Department of Veterans Affairs is extending its telemedicine network with a series of partnerships aimed at improving access to connected health services for rural and remote veterans.

https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/va-announces-telehealth-partnerships-with-walmart-philips-t-mobile

Truckers Set To Deliver 1.8 Million Wreaths To Honor U.S. Veterans

https://transportationnation.com/truckers-set-to-deliver-record-1-8-million-wreaths-to-honor-u-s-veterans/?fbclid=IwAR3Gq2_tZvv5Tm-cc8waBtJjqvL_RNg5ohYcvMydoT_yReNNqE4_smI8bjw

No Longer 'Unknowns': The Military Is Exhuming and Identifying Bodies of Korean War Victims

http://www.wunc.org/post/no-longer-unknowns-military-exhuming-and-identifying-bodies-korean-war-victims?fbclid=IwAR3yULh1OqYIkHLkyWp85eIM3-HMDchuD_o-f5JqXt-H5h8BAl0-xWhMdzg#stream/0

Retired Marine Col Ends Life Sitting On VA Records Outside Bay Pines VA

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/12/20/retired-marine-col-ends-life-sitting-on-va-records-outside-bay-pines-va/?fbclid=IwAR1XmvpK6dwBcKkFHZR3TYuBak3GMr-pR7rzApWFaJJMv39WX6WN-pa1UOg

The VA’s Private Care Program Gave Companies Billions And Vets Longer Waits

https://taskandpurpose.com/va-private-care-program-propublica/?bsft_eid=be8299e8-a157-4c92-b5ad-b8d12dc9d992&bsft_pid=06892ec0-8890-44eb-8b84-a9150f30881e&utm_campaign=tp_daily_wednesday_pm&utm_source=blueshift&utm_medium=email&utm_content=tp_daily_pm_ricks&bsft_clkid=1a2bf457-6dee-432d-981d-5978724eb505&bsft_uid=e1dee22a-eb49-460c-a842-53b39818ab4e&bsft_mid=000ab199-f515-4739-bc58-9761b0b430d7&bsft_pp=3

Chairman Roe Holds Bipartisan Press Conference, Urges Senate to Pass Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act 2018

https://veterans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2296

Chairman Roe Holds Press Conference on Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LHI91f9ag

VVA Lambasts the Two Senators and the VA for Killing the “Blue Water Navy” Bill

https://vva.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/VVA-Press-Release-18-27.pdf

VVA Demands Hearing for VA Abandonment of Suicide-prevention Outreach

https://vva.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/VVA-Press-Release-18-26-.pdf

The VA Didn't Spend Millions of Dollars Meant for Veterans Suicide Prevention, Report Finds

http://time.com/5483823/veterans-affairs-suicide-prevention/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20181226&fbclid=IwAR3E2AOpY8N-Oy6SZuDyXD0HEtrnmosSzD7cjaBa9a29EyiIFE4w_lUQg9c

Helping Veterans Cope with PTSD during holidays: Veterans Crisis Line available throughout the holiday season

https://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/54878/helping-veterans-cope-ptsd-holidays/

STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE ROBERT WILKIE BEFORE THE VETERANS’ AFFAIRS’ COMMITTEE U.S. SENATE and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - THE STATE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

https://www.veterans.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/VA%20Wilkie%20Testimony%2012.19.2018.pdf

Inspector General Missal Testifies before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs’

Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs

https://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/highlights/vaoig-highlights-201811.pdf

Utah Senator Stops Blue Water Navy Bill: VFW says ‘We don’t need more sick veterans to prove sufficient evidence’

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2018/12/utah-senator-stops-blue-water-navy-bill

VFW Action Corps Weekly December 21, 2018

https://www.vfw.org/actioncorpsweekly

VFW 2019 Priority Goals

https://vfworg-cdn.azureedge.net/-/media/VFWSite/Files/Advocacy/PriorityGoalsBrochure.pdf?la=en&v=1&d=20181219T152108Z

Tracking Transformation: VA MISSION Act Implementation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32bzHIjE1rw&feature=youtu.be&t=617