veterans

Q: What is your message to Iowans this Veterans Day? A: The nation’s 21 million veterans have served America with sacrifice and service. And Iowa is home to more than 226,000 of these patriots who answered the call to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. Called to duty in times of war,...

WASHINGTON — Veterans Day is the time to honor those who have served and sacrificed for our country. The single most important thing we can do today is to recommit ourselves as a nation to delivering on the promises made to those men and women who have risked life and limb in defense...

By Don and Janet Haugen, Worthington My husband — a Vietnam veteran — and I were at Perkins Restaurant on Nov. 4, having pie and coffee. He was wearing his Army Vietnam cap. When we were ready to pay our bill, the bill was already paid! What a wonderful surprise. The bill...

WASHINGTON — Each year, my Senate office has a poetry contest for Minnesota students so that they can write about the “veteran in their lives.” Often they write about a parent or another close friend or relative who has left home for extended periods to serve our nation in the...

By REP. JOE ATKINS and SEN. JIM METZEN ST. PAUL — In October, after it was announced that Minnesota is holding a record $711 million in lost and unclaimed funds, we launched an effort to find and notify residents of our legislative district of their unclaimed money. We thought...

WORTHINGTON — In a regular session meeting, Nobles County commissioners appointed Bill Brockberg to another term as Nobles County Veterans Service Officer. Brockberg explained to commissioners that if they approved his term, it would be for four years. “This is basically a...

WORTHINGTON — Tuesday night I nearly telephoned you. Well, I nearly telephoned half the people I know. As it turned out, I telephoned no one. In that old expression, I was glued to the TV. C-SPAN, I think. I am not a television watcher. I am a television checker. I check in the...

DULUTH — A program that’s supposed to help veterans who live in rural areas get health care close to home is failing them, said several veterans who attended a forum in Duluth on Friday. “We got the Choice card, and we thought: ‘Boy, here we go,’” said Tom Moors, a 68-year-old...

WORTHINGTON — An event to benefit a project that supports military veterans and their families affected by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder will take place Saturday. The first-ever PTSD Memorial Run, which will benefit the Trever Gould Soldiers Help Project, will begin at 1 p.m....