Veterans

As the first COVID-19 vaccines began arriving in Massachusetts on Monday, a 96-year-old World War II veteran in Bedford became the first VA patient in the country to get the shot. The VA Bedford Healthcare system announced the milestone over social media, posting that Margaret Klessens, a resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans…

The observance ceremony in honor of the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor was moved online this year over coronavirus concerns.

Fifteen veterans have died in just the last three weeks after a coronavirus outbreak at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton.  Dozens more residents and staff are now infected, officials said, even though workers have been in full PPE since March. Martin Oppenheimer is one of the veterans who died at the home since Nov. 10. “He was a…

Fifteen veterans have died in three weeks in a coronavirus outbreak at a New Hampshire veterans home.

The University of Maine is launching a program to offer training in food production to military veterans and farmers with disabilities. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension says the program is called “Boot-2-Bushels: Boot Camp for Market Gardeners and Farmers. It is slated to begin in January and will focus on training in small-scale farming for market sales. The...

The New England Patriots teamed up with Anheuser-Busch and the Massachusetts Military Foundation to provide free meals to veterans before Thanksgiving in Merrimack, New Hampshire, on Friday. More than 500 veterans and their families attended the unique donation drive-through at a local Anheuser-Busch facility to pick up a free meal kit prepared by the Massachusetts Military Foundation and the Patriots. …

The New England Patriots and Anheuser-Busch held a unique-donation drive-thru in New Hampshire with pre-packed meals for veterans.

The National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is opening its doors on Veterans Day.

A couple of military vets are on an unusual mission to create “700 MPH Bourbon,” and they’ve got the barrels of bourbon and a fighter jet to pull it off.

A community center promoting wellness for veterans is expected to open early next year in Colchester, Vermont, thanks to the hard work of parents who say one vet’s suicide is one too many. “I just hope it’s going to be so helpful,” said Val Pallotta, who lost her only child, Josh, to suicide in 2014. Josh Pallotta returned home...

A new community center in Colchester, Vermont, will soon help support Veterans.

This year’s Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser is going virtual for the first time and The Boss will once again be there

Two former officials of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts pleaded not guilty Thursday for their roles in the deadly coronavirus outbreak that killed at least 76 residents at the facility. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent, and David Clinton, the former medial director, face felony charges related to their March 27 decision to combine 42 veterans — some positive for…

Workers at a Massachusetts home for sick veterans where 76 residents who contracted the coronavirus died told lawmakers that the facility wasn’t adequately staffed, they weren’t given enough protective equipment, and they were bullied by management during the outbreak. Current and former staffers at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke told the Joint Special Legislative Oversight Committee on Tuesday that...

Tens of thousands of veterans and service members stationed at military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan say exposure to trash fires or “burn pits” has left them with breathing problems and other chronic illnesses, including cancer. They are fighting for health benefits, but say the United States Department of Veterans Affairs is turning its back on them. Veterans say everything...

Jon Stewart returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to take up a new cause — advocating for veterans affected by burn pits. The comedian held a press conference outside Capital Hill to honor servicemen and women, NBC News reports.

Veterans and military families are divided about reports that President Donald Trump made disparaging comments toward the military.

Policy changes that slow delivery at the U.S. Postal Service are taking a toll on military veterans, who are reporting much longer wait times to receive mail-order prescription drugs.

Six employees at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke who had previously been cleared to return to work after recovering from COVID-19 tested positive for the virus for a second time this week, officials said. All six employees tested positive for the virus months ago when the outbreak began. Each was considered “clinically recovered,” Brooke Karanovich, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts…

The beleaguered Holyoke Soldiers’ Home is suspending all visitation after a resident who had clinically recovered from the coronavirus tested positive again Monday, according to the state’s health and human services agency. The resident, a veteran, was taken to a hospital after showing coronavirus symptoms and tested positive for the disease, according to the Executive Office of Health and...