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Dianne Odell (February 13, 1947 [1] – May 28, 2008) was a Tennessee woman who spent most of her life in an iron lung. [2] She contracted bulbospinal polio at age 3 in 1950 and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of her life. Due to a spinal deformity caused by the polio, she was unable to change to a portable breathing device introduced ...
The organization was designed to assist the GAR and provide post-war relief to Union veterans. [2] The GAR had been created as a "fraternal" organization and refused to allow women to join up until the creation of this auxiliary. [2] It is largely dedicated to historical preservation of research and official documentation related to the WRC and ...
High school students at University of Detroit Jesuit School and Catholic Memorial in Boston serve as pallbearers for military veterans who died homeless.
McCarty was born in Shubuta, Mississippi and moved to Hattiesburg as a child. In her sixth grade, her aunt (who had no children of her own) was hospitalized and later needed homecare, so McCarty quit school, never to return. She later became a washerwoman, like her grandmother, a trade that she continued until arthritis forced her to quit in 1994.
Cindy Lee Sheehan (née Miller; born July 10, 1957) is an American anti-war activist, [1] [2] whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action during the Iraq War.
Evelyn Fowler Grubb (August 9, 1931 – December 28, 2005) was the wife of an American Vietnam War Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war, she was also a co-founder and then later served as the national coordinator of the National League of Families, [1] [2] [3] a nonprofit organization that worked on behalf of Vietnam-era Missing in Action (MIA) and Prisoner of War (POW) Families.
The organization's concerns include benefits for spouses and children, veterans' claims, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) issues, and other topics related to veterans and to their families. In the United States, there are more than 7,000 U.S.-based nonprofit organizations assisting veterans and their families. [1]