Welcome to The Vet Central's Resource Center.
This site was developed to assist veterans in obtaining
information about their benefits.
This is a non-governmental site, and
I hope that you find the information helpful.
I feel that knowledge is the first step in obtaining the benefits that you
are entitled to receive. If you have questions, please feel free to e-mail
me. If I do not have the answers, I will strive to find them for you.
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Fourscore and seven years ago,
our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation
conceived in liberty,and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether our nation
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,
as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate; we cannot consecrate;
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our
poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living,
rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall
not have died in vain; that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
Address at Gettysburg [November 19, 1863]
The world still remembers these words, but one has to
wonder if America still remembers the price our war heroes
paid for our freedom. America has
veterans who were injured in battle, whether physically or mentally ,
who live very lonely lives somewhere in a Veterans Administration Hospital.
The Budget cuts have made their accessability
to medical care a rare commodity!
We, as Americans, are just as guilty of not caring for our war heroes as
our government for we elect them, and, yet, we fail to hold
them accountable for their actions.
It is our duty, and should be our honor to care for them! America, we
have failed to hold our precious warriors close
to our hearts!
This site is dedicated to all Veterans
who have given so unselfishly so that
we may enjoy the freedoms that we have today.
May God bless you today, and hold
you close to His heart!
