DAV agenda to address underfunded VA and honor Tammy Duckworth

DAV National Convention to Push for VA Funding Reform


Last update: 1:14 p.m. EDT July 30, 2008
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Presidential Candidate, Key Officials Scheduled to Address Disabled Veterans
The Disabled American Veterans will once again convene its national body to address the needs of disabled veterans, including those who have served and sacrificed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere when the organization meets at the Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas for its 87th National Convention Aug. 9-12.
More than 4,000 DAV delegates will review important legislative initiatives aimed at building better lives for disabled veterans and their families. The major issues to be addressed by the Convention include the need to improve mental health care for the psychologically wounded and their families, eliminating the lengthy delays veterans encounter when submitting disability claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs and guarantying full funding for veterans health care.

A special moment will be the presentation of the DAV's Outstanding Disabled Veteran of the Year Award to Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth, whose remarkable accomplishments in service to veterans, despite suffering a double amputation and other grievous wounds during combat duty in Iraq, inspired the nation and advanced the causes of America's disabled veterans.

The 1.4 million-member Disabled American Veterans, a non-profit organization founded in 1920 and chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1932, represents this nation's wartime disabled veterans. It is dedicated to a single purpose: building better lives for our nation's disabled veterans and their families. For more information, visit the organization's Web site www.dav.org.
SOURCE Disabled American Veterans
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