Thirty-five WWII veterans will participate in Friday's flight from Las Vegas to Washington, where they will visit the WWII Memorial, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
First Lady Michelle Obama announced Monday a new program to help veterans find tech jobs, The Hill reports. The program is a partnership between the military and the private sector.
The venue will be the Holocaust Museum in Washington. Survivors and vets who helped liberate them will be there for the museum's 20th anniversary, The Associated Press reports.
The Washington Post reports that President Barack Obama has come under new pressure from a group of senators over the continued backlog in benefits claims at the VA.
Senior officials in charge of benefit claims will be paying a personal price for the huge backlog. The VA announced Monday that bonuses will be blocked for those officials, and the money used to help reduce the backlog, The Associated Press reports.
Here's a story you'll understand only if you know who Hanoi Jane was. Jane Fonda says "get a life" to the people behind the Facebook page organizing a boycott of an upcoming film in which she plays Nancy Reagan.
Brig. Gen. Lewis Boone wrote a letter to USA Today challenging the paper's report that the Army is unhappy with the pace of VA's processing of disability claims, saying "the partnership between the VA and Army is improving the disability evaluation process."
