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The Huffington Post
Executive Director of the Southeast Region for The Mission, Mary Beth Bruggeman writes: The holidays aren't always pretty in my house. Take the stress and financial pressure that the season brings, and add the excitement of three small kids, holiday and class parties and more calories than is reasonable in a day, and you have a recipe for exhaustion. But every year in December, I am inspired, like so many other Americans, to reflect on the joys and the successes of the year past and to set goals for the year to come. In addition to pondering my own personal life, I also spent time thinking about what I hope my post-9/11 military veteran community will achieve in 2016
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Military Times
No matter how much ground President Barack Obama's annual State of the Union speech covers, the commander in chief won't be able to address every military and veterans issue that outside advocates want highlighted. Here are a few topics that key community experts would like to hear mentioned but are unlikely to make the cut.
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WMAR-TV
A new law penalizing military impersonators will be brought to the Maryland General Assembly this January. State Senator Bryan Simonaire, a member of the military veteran's caucus, drafted the Stolen Valor Act of 2016 last year. The bill will make it a criminal offense for a person to impersonate as a veteran or active military member, which includes wearing military medals.
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Military.com
In a hopeful sign for 60,000 military widows and widowers who lost spouses to service-connected illnesses or injuries, a key House subcommittee is taking a fresh look at how Congress might allow a further easing the "SBP-DIC offset" to provide heartier and fairer survivor benefit packages.
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MLTnews
The President's final State of the Union is at 6 p.m. PST on Jan. 12. His plan is to address the nation on what his Administration has deemed critical pathways forward: economic progress; acting on climate; engagement in the world; health care reform and social progress and equality. A continual issue that has plagued this Administration is how the nation and the Department of Veterans Affairs is taking care of those who answer the call of this nation.
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Military.com
The Department of Veterans Affairs expects up to 15,000 seriously ill veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, before 1988, when base drinking water was contaminated, to be helped by a faster-track compensation process proposed last month. But the promised acceleration in VA disability awards can't begin until the proposed regulation becomes final, which could take at least another year to complete, VA officials said in a phone interview.
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PBS
U.S. military veterans who are having trouble starting families due to combat injuries do not get financial assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs for in vitro fertilization, leaving couples to pay for the costly treatments themselves. Efforts made in Congress to change that rule have been blocked.
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Military Times
The new year brought with it a pair of new faces in key roles for the veterans lobbying community. Officials from the Military Officers Association of America and the Student Veterans of America each announced new leaders, both promising to continue the groups' advocacy of veterans and military issues.
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