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Civil War-era soldiers
Group of six soldiers in uniform, bearing flags and rifles from the First Delaware...
Delaware Historical Society Photograph Collection, Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, Delaware. (MIT13_1)
Department of Veterans Affairs
While the Department of Veterans Affairs has been a cabinet-level department since...
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The mission of the VA
In Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address he called on the nation “to care for...
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Wounded Civil War veterans
Civil War veterans Major General Joseph Bradford Carr of 2nd New York Infantry Regiment,...
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2022631722)
Creating homes to care for veterans
The government created places for disabled veterans to live in the late 19th and...
From The Blue Book of the State of Wisconson by Henry Casson, 1897.
Dinner at a Soldiers' Home
Veterans gather for a meal at a Soldiers' Home in Ohio in 1904.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2022649012)
FDR signs G.I. Bill
In 1944 Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill, which provided unprecedented...
FDR Library Photo Collection (NPx 64-269)
Joyous return
Thousands of American veterans cheer aboard the SS John Ericsson as it arrives...
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2008680587)
Last full measure
Veteran Wayne Bixler looking for his wife's grave at a veteran's cemetery in California....
© Rick Loomis—Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
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