(SANTA FE, NM)- "Soldiers of Honor"--a documentary movie created by the New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services--will be shown at the prestigious Third Annual G.I. Film Festival next week in Washington, D.C.

Soldiers of Honor focuses on the first-ever visit of 40 World War II veterans from southern New Mexico to the National World War II Monument in Washington D.C. last fall. The group made the journey as part of the “Honor Flight Program” which pays for first-time visits of WWII veterans t… Continue

The Massachusetts Department of Veterans' Services (DVS) Statewide Advocacy for Veterans’ Empowerment (SAVE) program… Continue

Photo: ADVS Director Col. Joey Strickland addresses the gathering for Vietnam Rememberance Day

Phoenix- Hundreds of Arizona veterans took part in the 15th annual Arizona Vietnam Remembrance Day at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix on Sunday, April 26th.

The yea… Continue

Richmond, VA The Virginia Department of Minority Business Enterprise announced today that small, women- and minority-owned business owners can now obtain designation as a service disabled veteran business under the Commonwealth of Virginia’s SWaM Program.

The SWaM Program (Small, Women- and Minority-owned) is the Commonwealth’s supplier diversity effort to increase state spending with small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses. “Business owners that are service disabled veterans and who q… Continue

To: Members of NASDVA

On behalf of Dr. Nick Mueller, our President and CEO, I extend his thanks and appreciation to the Members of the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs for allowing him to speak to you during Washington Conference regarding the Museum and our commemorative events on June 6, 2009… Continue

GREENVILLE, Ala. – Almost sixty-six years after leading a dangerous, but successful, B-26 bombing mission over Sicily in 1943, the U.S. Air Force posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor to World War II Veteran Capt. William S. Norred o… Continue

RICHMOND – Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced the award of $1.7 million in grants to veterans and members of the National Guard and Reserves not on active duty who are suffering from combat-related head injuries and stress disorders. The funding is provided by the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program to coalitions of community programs.

"We can't control what happens to our service men and women while they are deployed, but we can influence what happens to them when they return home," Govern… Continue

(Sierra Vista) – A unique “cemetery within a cemetery” at the Southern Arizona Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery in Sierra Vista, Arizona is 60 percent finished. Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services Director Joey Strickland says everything is on schedule for a very special mil… Continue

Deputy Secretary Wilbert B. Forbes, MDVA; Lt. Governor Anthony Brown; Secretary John Colmers, DHMH

Maryland Is First State In The Nation To Launch Online Program To Connect Veterans With Behavioral Health Services.

ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 31, 2009) – Maryland Lt.… Continue

The Massachusetts Women Veterans' Network Newsletter is hot off the press. This issue contains articles about events and programs for women veterans including: There and Back Again: Navigating Life After War; the first statewide Conference for Women Veterans (to be held June 27, 2009… Continue

Dear NASDVA Members,

Below is information that we have been using regarding the Troops To Teachers program in our current communications with Congress. Please feel free to use as you see fit in your own similar communications, if you find this of use. This information is linked as a Word document at the bottom of this blog.

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Thank you for your interest on the critical issues… Continue

Massachusetts veterans smoke at a higher rate than the general adult population: 24 percent as opposed
to 18 percent, when adjusted for age (based on figures from 2005-07). Studies show that using medications such as the nicotine patch combined with support triples your chances of… Continue

The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs has received the latest DOD data on OEF/OIF veterans, again thanks to the exceptional persistence of Mr. Jose Leon, military and veterans affairs staff for U.S. Senator Herb Kohl. As we have previously stated, it would be wonderful if one day DOD would provide this information both publicly (such as on a website) and pro… Continue

Thank you to everyone who made the 2009 NASDVA Mid-Winter Conference such a success. Conference presentations are linked below and the photo gallery is… Continue