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VA drops Abraham Lincoln quote as motto because it doesn't include women
Fox News ^ | March 17, 2023 | Chris Pandolfo

Posted on 03/18/2023 7:54:51 PM PDT by Dahoser

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has officially changed its mission statement, dropping a quote from former President Lincoln because it used male pronouns and was viewed by some as excluding women.

On Thursday, the VA announced that its new motto is, "To fulfill President Lincoln's promise to care for those who have served in our nation’s military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors."

The new statement replaces the original 1959 mission statement which featured a quote from Lincoln's second inaugural address, delivered in 1865, "To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan."

In a news release, the VA indicated that Lincoln's words were insufficient because they did not include women veterans, as well as veteran families, caregivers and survivors. The new statement was crafted in consultation with roughly 30,000 veterans who were surveyed, a diverse group that included men and women of every age group, LGBTQ+ veterans, and White, Black, Latino, Asian and Native American veterans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abrahamlincoln; bidenvoters; greatestpresident; illinois; va; woke
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More destruction of our history and institutions by the Biden regime and the left.
1 posted on 03/18/2023 7:54:52 PM PDT by Dahoser
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To: Dahoser

/massive eyeroll


2 posted on 03/18/2023 8:01:25 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy thmkeorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Dahoser

May as well. The American republic is gone. What we have now is not worthy of Lincoln.


3 posted on 03/18/2023 8:03:47 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Dahoser

I noticed how the female emphasis was taking over the VA in the 90s and having seen the physical injury rate for females, the PTSD rate for females, and knowing how obsessed with being pampered, paid attention to, treated, medicated, counseled, and happy they are to go to doctors, the females are going to take over the VA and the disability pension system.


4 posted on 03/18/2023 8:07:51 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Dahoser

clown world. We’re watching the downfall of the greatest civilization in the history of the world. It’s amazing how rapidly it is falling apart.


5 posted on 03/18/2023 8:07:57 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Dahoser

F ing commie bastards.


6 posted on 03/18/2023 8:12:54 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Dahoser

The vast majority of military medicine is for female health issues.


7 posted on 03/18/2023 8:14:42 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: ansel12

Agree! With no husband, they leech off the system. PTSD after 5 years in, and live off it $$$ forever. Ouch, I stubbed me toe. Get PTSD payments.


8 posted on 03/18/2023 8:20:37 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Dahoser

The original statement doesn’t include women? What is a woman again?


9 posted on 03/18/2023 8:30:57 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Dahoser

Don’t expect the Republicans to reverse all of these WOKE acts when they are in control.

The Republican motto: One step forward, two steps back.


10 posted on 03/18/2023 8:33:34 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Dahoser

11 posted on 03/18/2023 8:38:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Dahoser

Why didn’t they just throw “so they could boink the women.” on the end of the dumbass motto.


12 posted on 03/18/2023 8:55:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Elections have consequences, stolen elections have catastrophes." - J.B. Shurk)
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To: Dahoser

The friggin’ motto doesn’t mention midgets and dwarfs either.


13 posted on 03/18/2023 8:56:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Elections have consequences, stolen elections have catastrophes." - J.B. Shurk)
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To: Dahoser

If they modify it, then it is no longer a Lincoln quote.


14 posted on 03/18/2023 9:16:03 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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I’m with the VA for healthcare.

The vast majority of recipients are male, because women were few in service during the years that have turned veterans old, and needing more treatments.

The new text doesn’t seem offensive to me. The surrounding language is blah blah agenda, but the specific text isn’t bothersome.


15 posted on 03/18/2023 9:28:07 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Dahoser

The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!

16 posted on 03/18/2023 9:56:42 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so disparately need him)
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To: imabadboy99

You are correct. I saw a video on the fall of Byzantium this morning. Cities became dangerous and crime-ridden. The eunuchs ran everything. People who had enough money fled to rural villas.

Does this sound a bit familiar?

For them it took 1,000 years.


17 posted on 03/18/2023 11:13:50 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Dahoser

Man, getting cancelled after 160 years has to take the cake. I took a man to the Battle Creek VA many years back. While I waited in the lobby, I saw a cock roach on the trash can nearby. I mentioned it to an aide who said they run the building. Oh, THAT VA. Glad they have their priorities in order.


18 posted on 03/19/2023 12:08:28 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Dahoser

How silly
Poor Abe

And I’m mixed on Abe


19 posted on 03/19/2023 12:11:13 AM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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To: Dahoser

“VA drops Abraham Lincoln quote as motto because it doesn’t include women”

Take that, Putin!!! You don’t stand a chance against our brass!


20 posted on 03/19/2023 4:52:52 AM PDT by BobL
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