The Fund has four principle aims, supporting veterans, building and supporting communities, increasing educational opportunities, and creating jobs and economic growth.
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The Veterans Jobs Corps is designed to put veterans to work building infrastructure such as roads and bridges, similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s.
Other veterans seek new adventures from taking on a new business to building a team of globetrotting veterans who use skills learned in combat to help after a natural disaster.
The ceremony included a parade of veterans' groups to the legion building in Scar Lane, where the plaque was dedicated.
After the war he went into business building homes for returning veterans.
He took his idea to his local trade group, the Bay Area Builders Association, and convinced members to start a home-building program for wounded veterans.
Let us serve them as well as they've served us, by giving them the equipment they need, by providing them with the care and benefits that they have earned, and by enlisting our veterans in the great task of building our own nation.
Sessions on anger management and confidence building and retraining courses for veterans will be offered by the scheme.
They left only because police informed them the building would be closed in observance of Veterans' Day.
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He decided the best way he could help wounded veterans was by doing what he knew best: building them homes.
The memorial foundation, which plans to build a statue and memorial to disabled veterans on Capitol Hill near the Rayburn House Office Building, stopped using Quadriga in 2008, five months before the settlement agreement was reached.
But as they're now coming home, I want to take about half the money that we're saving after a decade of war and let's help put veterans and Americans back to work rebuilding America, doing some nation-building here at home. (Applause.) Let's rebuild our ports and our roads and our bridges and our airports.
We remain committed to building a new VA medical center in downtown New Orleans so we can better serve and care for our veterans. (Applause.) And to help fight crime, we're helping to hire cops and rebuild jails.
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