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Three other veterans charities I wanted to bring your attention to today --

One is @VeteranAdvocacy, which assists veterans & their families, focusing on those with PTS & TBI, by providing free legal services to access housing, health care, & income.

VeteranAdvocacyProject.org
@VeteranAdvocacy 2/ Another is the National Veterans Legal Services Program (@Lawyer4Warriors) which ensures the govt delivers to vets the benefits to which they are entitled because of disabilities resulting from their military service to our country.

nvlsp.org
@VeteranAdvocacy @Lawyer4Warriors 3/ Third is @TeamRWB which works to enrich the lives of America’s veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and social activity.

teamrwb.org
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Knowledgeable source tells me that White House forced out Pentagon Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Kevin Sweeney (ret.)
Official title was “Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense.”
Sweeney was going to leave within a couple months, having worked directly for Mattis, but WH forced him out before he wanted to leave, knowledgeable source says.
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Retired four-star Admiral William McRaven, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014 (which included the OBL mission), just issued the following statement to CNN in response to POTUS attacking GEN McChrystal on twitter:

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“Stan McChrystal is one of the great generals of this generation and the finest officer I ever served with. He is a deep strategic thinker, tactically brilliant, with unparalleled personal courage. His leadership of special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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Going to the border w a group of progressive #veterans & @Ocasio2018 NY14 organizers to respond to the #asylum crisis one of the most important actions this year. It reminded me of our collective power & #military veterans & families' unique strengths & instincts as organizers /1
Coming together quickly for urgent collective action, we realized most of us had a #military affiliation, whether we enlisted ourselves or our mother, uncles, or cousins served in uniform.

Nearly all of us were also #immigrant-connected— immigrants or the children of immigrants
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*Vets of color in particular hold massively under-tapped insights & analytical power for change* /3
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As James Bezan and @ErinOTooleMP attack the cuurnt government, let's take a little stroll down memory lane regarding @CPC_HQ's treatment of #veterans shall we?

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1. The Auditor General slammed the Conservative government for failing veterans on mental health services. There was a 24% refusal rate for veterans applying for disability benefits. They gave you their lives, but your government turned away 1 in 4 veterans. #cdnpoli
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