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ens of thousands of motorcyclists will gather in downtown Washington on May 30, shutting down the streets around the National Mall for about 15 hours to conduct a traditional Memorial Day ride. In a change from previous years, the riders will be staged on the roads around the National Mall, rather than at the Pentagon parking lot. The Defense Department barred the motorcyclists from gathering at the Pentagon this year, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the size of the expected crowd. Organizers are preparing for up to 100,000 motorcycles and nearly twice as many people. AMVETS, the national veterans’...

Under President Biden’s leadership, the Pentagon rejected a permit for the annual Rolling to Remember motorcycle ride held in Washington, DC, each Memorial Day to honor POW/MIA veterans. The event is organized by AMVETS, a veterans group, which submitted permit requests and petitions for the event to multiple federal agencies. According to Rep. Darrell Issa, “AMVETS received approval from the Department of Transportation, the Department of Interior, and multiple other state and local authorities.” Originally, the Pentagon granted a permit to AMVETS for the event in March, however it was later rescinded without explanation. “There are no options with as...

Biden Admin Denies Parking Permit for Bikes in 3-Decade-Straight Veterans Motorcycle Ride on Washington, DC By C. Douglas Golden Published May 2, 2021 at 10:19am For 34 years, motorcycle-riding veterans and the supporters have flocked to Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day weekend for a ride to remember American prisoners of war and those missing in action. For 32 of those years, they’ve used the Pentagon’s parking lot as a staging point. This year, President Joe Biden’s Department of Defense might finally put an end to that. According to WJLA-TV in Washington, the Pentagon announced Friday that it’ll refuse to allow...

Just perfect timing for the communist MayDay holiday release. What a surprise.

The NFL seems committed to angering conservative fans.They know the nation doesn’t enjoy social protests on Sundays and yet, they’re doing nothing about it.Now, Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league’s social justice campaign is ‘just the beginning.’ From Breitbart:Despite the plummeting TV ratings and continued anger of fans over a rising tide of anthem protests, National Football Commissioner Roger Goodell is promising that the league is ready to increase its attention to so-called “social justice” programs and campaigns.Only a day after news broke that the NFL rejected an ad that the military veteran group AMVETS wanted to air during the...

We’ll still have a Super Bowl party. There just won’t be any football. We’ll leave the TV off, ignore the alerts on the phone, and enjoy the company of family and friends. If the NFL doesn’t respect my country or my service, then I won’t respect it. Yes, this is about the anthem. It’s also about the NFL’s attitude, and the recent insult it offered a leading veterans group. Here’s the story. A few weeks ago, the National Football League approached a veterans group of which I am a member – AMVETS – and asked it if it wanted to...

Nobody is safe. Velma Hart, who burst onto the media scene after telling President Obama she was scared about her financial future, has been laid off. Hart was let go as the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a nonprofit Maryland-based veteran services organization. Hart has become another casualty of the tough economy in which so many people have lost their jobs. "It's not anything she did," said Jim King, the national executive director of Am Vets. "She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people. It was a move to cut our bottom line....

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2008 – AMVETS, one of the nation’s leading veterans service organizations, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness signed a memorandum of understanding last week at the alliance’s Virginia headquarters in Arlington. The memorandum allows AMVETS and NAMI to share resources to assist veterans and their families in identifying and coping with mental illness. Together, the two organizations have more than 2,500 locations where veterans and their families can go to learn more about readjustment issues and mental illness. “When troops come home from war, they just want to go home. They often don’t want to...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2008 – Veterans pursuing higher education through DeVry University may be eligible for scholarships up to $1,000, but the deadline to apply is quickly approaching. Applications for 2008 AMVETS/DeVry University scholarships are due Feb. 15. Veterans and their family members are encouraged to apply for one of 10 scholarships being offered for 2008 spring semester. The scholarships of up to $1,000 may be applied to undergraduate and graduate programs at both DeVry and its Keller Graduate School of Management for online and on-site programs, AMVETS officials said in a recent news release. Applicants are eligible for...

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The AMVETS veterans organization and the Motion Picture Hall of Fame are trying to collect a million donated DVDs to send to the troops overseas. Laptops and DVD players are common items the troops take with them overseas. When off-duty, these two devices become popular sources of entertainment. There’s limited television availability in combat zones, and even Internet access has to be rationed. But given enough DVDs, the troops have an excellent off-duty recreation. The DVDs will be distributed through the USO (United Service Organizations) and (for those aimed at children) the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (which has...

Friday, November 18, 2005 ON CAPITOL HILL Vets' group feels cut out of budget process Date change for congressional testimony seen as detrimental Posted: November 18, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The head of the nation's largest veterans' group says the decision by a House committee chairman to move forward by several months the traditional date such organizations give budget testimony will likely lead to less, not more, influence in the process. Thomas Bock, the national commander of the American Legion, says a recent decision by House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Steve Buyer, R-Ind., to...

Summary   In the Feb. 15 Democratic debate, Kerry suggested that Bush was being unpatriotic: “He’s cut the VA (Veterans Administration) budget and not kept faith with veterans across this country. And one of the first definitions of patriotism is keeping faith with those who wore the uniform of our country.” It is true that Bush is not seeking as big an increase for next year as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs wanted. It is also true that the administration has tried to slow the growth of spending for veterans by not giving new benefits to some middle-income vets. Yet even so, funding...

War and Disabilities Michael Arnold Glueck and Robert J. Cihak Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 New Diagnoses and Strategies Create Both Short- and Long-term Problems for Medicine and the Military War is hell and becoming even more hellish. The "advancement" of technology has provided new ways to live and terrible ways to die. Those who live because of body armor now face hellish injuries to what's left of limbs and looks. These in turn provide new challenges to medicine and the military. The Body Armor Trap While there has been a generational decline in infantry skills, the American infantry still widely...

AMVETS Remembers 'Ambassador of Entertainment to America's Armed Forces' 7/28/03 5:13:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Francesca DiMarco or Richard Flanagan, 301-459-9600, both of AMVETS WASHINGTON, July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "He really was one of us," said AMVETS National Commander W.G. "Bill" Kilgore of Bob Hope, on learning of the legendary entertainer's death yesterday at 100. The AMVETS leader went on to praise Hope for "his countless contributions to the morale of our men and women in uniform." Commenting on Hope, who always found time in his storied career to entertain the troops, Kilgore said, "He was...

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