#VETERANS

David Anderson

bricksilk

Important #OOBill message: looks like celebrations of a government concession on crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court are premature. ⁦The excellent @BinghamCentre⁩ has been looking at the

Dee

DeniseEmtin

THREAD1. This is my Dad, Ed.He’s a resident at a NY State Veterans Home.Anyone who meets him, knows he’s a big Yankee fan. He survived chemo & removal of half

Kevin Hearne

KevinHearne

Just a tiny thready thread: haven’t said much about the postal thing because I have seen it coming for years. Dad was a postal worker and a veteran of Korea.

Eagles Nation

PHLEaglesNation

What are some notable times you think of that the Eagles were mentioned in a movie/TV show? We’ll get started with an obvious one: So is no one gonna mention

VAdm/Vam Craig Baines

Comd_RCN

From our naval family, #WeTheNavy extend our deepest condolences to Her Majesty the Queen and members of the Royal Family. His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh had close ties

Gareth Davies

bermicourt

It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Some thoughts:My father was a psychiatrist. I learned from him that mental illness is in many ways just like many other illnesses. It happens. 1/ People get treatment

Abbie Bennett

AbbieRBennett

.@DeptVetAffairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, in interview with OANN, says President Donald Trump is "the first president since the 1890s who recognized the scourge of veteran suicide." Wilkie did not cite

Glennie Sims

glennie_sims

Interesting WWII propaganda from 1943... from Donald Duck.This wouldn’t fly today... but was still showing on tv in the late 1960’s, when I was a child.Could be a reason many

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

[Thread] Napoleon’s Grande Armée veterans.Some of the earliest photographs of veterans are a series of fifteen original sepia views of members of Napoleon’s army taken when these old soldiers were

The Voice Of Reason

portarican_RT

I never used to be able to talk politics with just anyone. Many times it was because they didn't know anything about the issues or understand the complexities of political

hilzoy

hilzoy

This is horrible. These vets didn't just die of the virus; they died in a VA nursing home that was horribly underfunded, and they paid the price.They Survived the Worst

Nick Short

nickfshort

German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring (centre) who motored into Berchtesgarden and surrendered to Major General Maxwell D. Taylor smiling / Photo by PhotoQuest.Am I alone in finding this image bizarre?

Kal

Kal1699

Thinking about how veterans and service members fit into class warfare. The military is often a weapon used against it's own society. Sometimes it's obvious, like the Coal Wars, the

File411

File411

Navy veteran at center of viral Portland protest video sues Trump administration Christopher Davidcc @DHS_Wolf @DHSgov @realDonaldTrump heard losers got S-E-R-V-E-D today Pettibone v. Trump Case No 3:20-cv-01464https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/2

Tom Newton Dunn

tnewtondunn

EXCL: Johnny Mercer has called the British government “the most distrustful, awful environment I've ever worked in”, in his first interview since being sacked as Veterans Minister last night. Listen

Matthew Gertz

MattGertz

When my mentions weren't distracting me I wrote kind of a lot this week. Thread. "What the Republicans call a 'working class' agenda is just a revamped Fox News culture