Issue 44, July 2020

Topics includ the adoption of the Veteran's Creed by a number of different Veterans Service Organizations (VSO), the changing demographics of the U.S. veteran population and the implications those changes have on care provided to veterans, an update and summary on efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to combat COVID-19 including telehealth efforts and an expanded telehealth agreement with Walmart, the criminal case against nusring assistant Reta Mays who pled guilty to using insulin to murder veterans at the Louis A. Johnson Medical Center in Clarksburg, WV, new comprehensive federal efforts to combat suicides among the veteran population, a book review of Paul Dickson's "The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941", a news story of former Marine Phillip Banks who caught a 3 year old boy falling from a burning building, honors bestowed on two centenarian veterans: U.S. Marine John Forritor who fought in both World War II and the Korean War, and British World War II veteran Captain Tom Moore, and a visit by President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to the Korean War Memorial in honor of the 70th anniversary of the start of that conflict. Also includes statistics from the VA on the number of annual veteran suicides dating back to 2005 and the projected proportional changes in the race/ethnicity among veterans from 2019-2045.