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As we get this blog rolling (scrolling?), we’d also like to link to other Web sites about veterans affairs and military issues. Send us your favorite sites, and we’ll make sure to link to them. (Hint: Words that appear in a different color in our blog entries can usually be clicked on to visit a related site.)
We’ll also let you know about any new sites as we hear about them. Check out this one from the County of Rockland Veterans, just launched this week, like At Ease!
Aurelio Orlandini, the group’s service officer and a Vietnam veteran, said the site – like our blog – is still being worked on, but so far includes “a calendar of local events as well as national/local issues.”
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United States Submarine Veterans, Inc.
USSVI Hudson Valley Chapter includes Putnam, Rockland, Orange, and Westchestewr Counties. They use web site space on the New Paltz VFW site.
http://www.vfw8645.org/subvets/
If you want to try to track down old submarine shipmates try this site:
http://www.submarinesailor.com
Thanks, Thomas! Did you serve on a sub yourself? I have an old college friend, just out of the Navy, who used to disappear for months at a time. We’d all occasionally get e-mails when he’d surface in some exotic locale, though for all we knew, he could have been a few miles off Groton the whole time!
For the rest of you out there: Keep the site and milblog suggestions coming, and feel free to suggest discussion topics, too.
I don’t know if it helps, but I have been able to track people down using https://www.us.army.mil
the website has a white pages section. The only thing is you have to sign up with a password and everything. Every 150 days you have to change the password, but it’s the only secure way to communicate with service members and it is also getting to be the ONLY way to communicate with soldiers because the system is kicking back all emails from other servers, ie yahoo, hotmail,etc
I recommend the DAV website: http://www.dav.org/ and the Congressional voting key at the DAV site: http://capwiz.com/dav/home/ ... this site shows the actual voting records of our Representatives and Senators on DAV supported legislation.
“VetVoice aims to be a nexus for information and opinion on war news, war politics, deployments, optempo, veterans’ issues, troops’ families’ issues, and more” and
VOTEVETS
Political Action Committee is to elect Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to public office; hold public officials accountable for their words and actions that impact America’s 21st century servicemembers; and fully support our men and women in uniform.
Nicole,
Yes, I served on submarines in the late 1960s and early 1970s. If you google USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN 657) one of the linkds will be the web site.
I recently saw a fantastic war documentary, Operation Homecoming, directed by Richard Robbins. It’s actually based on an active program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to encourage military personnel to write about their experiences. The movie is a montage of these stories and narratives during tours in Iraq. Although the they are based in Iraq, Robbins does an amazing job of weaving in interviews and quotes from various Veterans (mostly Vietnam) turned writers and how they came to be etc. What is most refreshing is that it’s not horribly political. It simply lets different people tell their stories.
More about Operation Homecoming (the NEA program):
http://www.nea.gov/national/homecoming/index.html