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Texas State Veterans Home named for Tuskegee Airmen opens in Fort Worth
| March 31, 2025
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A project long championed by the Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce to honor the area’s Tuskegee Airmen came to fruition March 22, as Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham hosted the grand opening of the Texas State Veterans Home in Fort Worth that bears their name.
‘It’s shameful:’ North Texas veterans respond to Trump’s proposed VA cuts
| March 18, 2025
Protests against the Trump administration’s possible VA cuts took place all across the country on March 14, including at the VA hospital in Dallas.
Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
| March 5, 2025
“What’s going to happen is VA’s not going to perform as well for veterans, and veterans are going to get harmed,” said Michael Missal, who was the VA's inspector general for nine years until he was fired last month by Donald Trump.
Army criticizes Trump campaign for inappropriate conduct at Arlington National Cemetery
| August 30, 2024
When the cemetery's public affairs director attempted to prevent the Trump campaign from illegally filming in a prohibited area where recently deceased service members are buried, a member of Trump’s team pushed past the employee.
6 times Trump insulted US veterans
| June 25, 2024
Former president Donald Trump has a long history of clashing with military families and US veterans. The newly convicted felon, who famously evaded the Vietnam War draft, has even reportedly called slain US soldiers “losers” and “suckers.”