Veterans Interest Newsletter Issue 39

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Joel Kupersmith, M.D.

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Topics include a list of the war movies featuring actor Kirk Douglas, the naming of a Navy aircraft carrier after Mess Attendant Third Class Doris Miller for his heroics during the attack on Pearl Harbor, the VA hospital in Palo Alto, CA becoming the first hospital in the country to move to 5G technology, an announcement from the Defense Health Agency that 38 military hospitals will stop treating military families and retirees, 100 year old Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee conducting the coin toss at Super Bowl LIV in 2020, the signing of a bill by President Trump that is aimed at helping veterans find a career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and the death of Navajo code talker Joe Vandever, Sr. at the age of 96. Also includes statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs on VA expenditures from 2018 and on the distribution of veterans' age from 2015 and as projected over the next 30 years.