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07/03/2021 02:00 PM EDT

Female Veteran and her adaptive ski instructor prepare for a day on the slopes

After a quadriplegic C-spine injury left her in a wheelchair, Army Veteran Desiree Emilio-Duverge reinvented herself by embracing change, learning adaptive sports and becoming her own boss.

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07/03/2021 11:30 AM EDT

Army Air Corps Veteran Robert Sharp is todays #VeteranOfTheDay.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Corps Veteran Robert Sharp who flew bombing missions in France and Germany during World War II.

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07/03/2021 11:30 AM EDT

Army Veteran Kathy Ann C. Baptiste-Jones is today's Veteran of the day.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Kathy Ann C. Baptiste-Jones who helped start the 440th Civil Affairs Battalion at Fort Carson, Colorado.

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07/03/2021 09:00 AM EDT

Fresh Focus podcast #29-34

If you have ever been distracted while eating, you know how easy it can happen to any one of us. But when we’re concerned when a loved one may not be eating enough, we want to focus on how to help them reduce distracted eating.

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07/02/2021 04:00 PM EDT

A man and a woman holding their children

A few bad people are seeking to take advantage of Veterans and VA during this challenging time through scams and other illegal or unethical activities, including fraud, waste and abuse.

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07/02/2021 11:30 AM EDT

Navy Veteran Alfred Daniel Barnett is today's Veteran of the day.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Alfred Daniel Barnett, who served as a motor machinist’s mate in the Pacific theater during World War II.

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07/02/2021 10:00 AM EDT

Man and woman doing tai chi in a park

Tai Chi improves aerobic capacity, strength, stress management, quality of life and pain management. Two Veterans explain how it has helped them.

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07/02/2021 09:00 AM EDT

Dr. Robert Graziano, the lead researcher on the study, received support from the Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Durham VA.

Graziano and his team found suicidal ideation to be strongly related to depression, with small connections to past suicide attempts and anger. Previous suicide attempts were strongly related to the history of childhood trauma and weakly related to illegal drug use and PTSD.

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