Roundtable Shares Strategies To Help Homeless Veterans
 WASHINGTON (March 21, 2011) - The American Legion's 51st annual Washington Conference featured a roundtable March 18 that focused on strategies to eliminate homelessness among veterans. The Homeless Veterans Providers Roundtable, sponsored by the Legion's Economic Commission, brought together representatives from more than a dozen state and federal organizations. Read More >>>
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Marine Dad Not Done Fighting Church
Albert Snyder thanks Legionnaires for support,
urges them to push for legislation to control Westboro protests.
 WASHINGTON (March 22, 2011) -- Albert Snyder says he is not done fighting the Westboro Baptist Church and the emotional strain its anti-gay, anti-military protests cause families at private funerals. The Maryland man who lost his 20-year-old Marine son Matthew in Iraq in 2006 has fought the church in the court system after Westboro members picketed the fallen lance corporal's funeral five years ago. The case ended early this month in the U.S. Supreme Court.
"It's been a long battle, but I'm not about to give up just because some people on the Supreme Court said (the church) could do it," Snyder told hundreds of American Legion members gathered Tuesday for the 51st Annual Washington Conference at the Downtown Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center in the nation's capital. "I will continue to press for legislation to make the picketing and protesting at funerals a little bit harder for members of the Westboro Baptist Church."
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Cemetery Official To Legion: We Will Fix Arlington
 WASHINGTON (March 21, 2011) -- When the United States' most hallowed cemetery was rocked with scandal in 2010, Secretary of the Army John McHugh established a hierarchy to make sure incidents like graves being mismarked and unmarked, burial urns being Read More >>>
A key player in that hierarchy, Kathryn Condon, pledged to The American Legion today that she'll do everything in her power to restore the public's trust in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Court Ruling Adds To Riders' NumbersDefenders of military families at funerals see membership spike
 TheDay.com | Connecticut | By Jennifer McDermott
Eight thousand people have joined the Patriot Guard Riders nationwide in the week since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a fringe church that stages anti-gay protests at military funerals.
When the Westboro Baptist Church makes news nationally, the Patriot Guard Riders see a spike in their membership. This time, however, it's more dramatic, given the attention and interest in the March 2 Supreme Court ruling, which held that the First Amendment protects the church's demonstrations at funerals for U.S. soldiers killed in action.
The Patriot Guard Riders shield the mourning family and friends.
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VA Speeds Delivery Of Caregiver Benefits
 WASHINGTON (March 1, 2011) - Thanks to its filing of an Interim Final Rule to the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Veterans Affairs has made it possible for caregivers of eligible veterans to start receiving benefits and support services as early as this summer. Read More >>>
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