From: Wayne Gatewood, Jr [mailto:wgatewood@qualitysupport.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 7:18 PM
To: Wayne Gatewood, Jr
Subject: Veterans News for June 15 and 16, 2012
28.The Flag Still Flies. Washington Times The need to honor veterans on Flag Day and quotes Secretary Shinseki as "aptly" saying, "we have the opportunity, and the responsibility, to anticipate the needs of returning Veterans. ...[to] ...ensure that all Veterans have access to quality care."
29.Guards Protect Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall During Marine Week In Cleveland. WEWS-TV
30.Inside The Coming Arlington Cemetery App. Army Times
31.Project Will Record, Preserve Veterans' Memories Of Service. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
32.Learning To Live With PTSD. WDTV-TV
33.VA Medical Center Offers Family Education Session On Schizophrenia. Corning (NY) Leader
34.Las Vegas Homeless Veterans Surveyed, Helped. Las Vegas Review-Journal
35.VA / VSO-MSO Hearings as June 16, 2012:
June 19, 2012: The House Veterans Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on VA’s Veterans Benefits Management System. 2:00 P.M.; TBD
June 21, 2012. HVAC, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity will hold a hearing on pending legislation. 10:00 A.M.; 334 Cannon
June 27, 2012. SVAC will conduct a legislative hearing. The agenda is comprised mainly of bills regarding health care, disability compensation, and NCA matters. 10:00 A.M.; 418 Russell
- Today in History:
- 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
- 1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
- 1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1795 – First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
- 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
- 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
- 1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
- 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- 1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
- 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1976 – Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
- 1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
- 2000 – Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
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237 years of Soldiers' sacrifice defending freedom.
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WASHINGTON REPORT
Senate Hearing on Appropriations
On Wednesday the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee heard testimony from Secretary of Defense Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dempsey. They spoke specifically on how damaging sequestration would be for the DoD and the effects that the House and Senate versions of the 2013 NDAA would have on the Pentagon’s carefully crafted budget.
Speaking about sequestration Gen. Dempsey said, “We can’t say precisely how bad the damage would be, but it is clear that sequestration would risk hollowing out our force and reducing its military options available to the nation. We would go from unquestionably powerful everywhere to being less visibly globally and presenting less of an overmatch to our adversaries, and that would translate into a different deterrent calculus and potentially, therefore, increase the likelihood of conflict.”
Under sequester, defense will face a reduction of $492 billion over the ten years. The sequester reduction would be in addition to the $485 billion defense reduction already contained in the fiscal year 2013 budget, resulting in an approximate $1 Trillion cut in defense over the next decade.
Secretary Panetta restated a warning to Congress that the NDAA bills, which add different amounts to the Defense budget request, would have to be paid for by subtracting from other accounts, which in turn would result in a “hollowing out” of the military. Panetta pa
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