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Organization of U.S. war veterans
Major veterans service organizations have alternated between praise for Trump when he signed veterans-focused laws or spoke at their conventions, and public criticism or rebukes when his statements or...
Military "bonuses" trace to early American practice of compensating servicemembers beyond regular pay—initially with land and cash after the Revolutionary War—and evolved into twentieth‑century "adjus...
Veterans, military organizations and families of the fallen have overwhelmingly responded to ’s recent remarks about military service with sharp condemnation, calling them insulting to those who serve...
Multiple credible reports trace the allegation that Donald Trump privately called U.S. war dead “suckers” and “losers” to a 2020 article in The Atlantic; Trump denied the claim while former officials ...
The claim that many charities are viable alternatives to the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is supported: multiple organizations regularly appear as top alternatives offering . Several analyses emphasi...
The question asks whether a reported Trump quote about war dead and veterans—often rendered as calling them “suckers” and “losers”—constitutes disrespect to the military; context, repetition, and impa...
A short list of veteran-focused charities report exceptionally high program expense ratios — Veteran Tickets Foundation (99.3%), several smaller groups over 90%, and larger, well-known organizations l...
Major veterans service organizations—including Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)—played visible advocacy roles around 2024–2025 legislation and VA policy shifts such ...
Reporting documents multiple episodes in which was accused of mocking or disparaging Gold Star families — most prominently his mocked remarks about in 2016 and allegations that he called fallen U.S. s...
the moved from sharp, episodic rebukes of to repeated, high-profile public condemnations of specific remarks by him — an evolution from criticizing individual incidents in 2016 to a pattern of formal,...
Regional and condition-specific veterans groups—especially those focused on toxic exposures—were central to pushing reforms in 2024–2025: Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and the Military Officers Ass...
Reporting beginning with a 2020 Atlantic article alleges Donald Trump called U.S. service members who died in war “losers” and “suckers,” and that those comments were repeated and amplified in subsequ...
Military families facing government shutdowns have access to a patchwork of including interest-free loans from service aid societies and private military-focused lenders, commissary and exchange defer...