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SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson says service members from the Vietnam era didn’t always get the homecoming they deserved.
And so, he wanted a “do-over”. In Yankton, on Thursday, Johnson presented service members with commemorative challenge coins and thanked them for their service.
U.S. Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and Tom Cole (R-OK) on Jan. 13 introduced a bipartisan bill that would grant a federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans Inc. (NAIV), a nonprofit organization headquartered in South Dakota on the Cheyenne River Reservation that advocates for Native Americans who served in the United States military.
Guest Columnby David Forsythe, Wounded Warrior Fellow with Rep. Dusty Johnson's Office
STURGIS, S.D. (KOTA) - After soldiers returned home from the Vietnam War, some say they were met with mixed feelings from fellow Americans.
Representative Dusty Johnson believes the negative way the United States welcomed home the veterans is just one example of the country’s past flaws.
People bundled up and gathered together to pay their respects to veterans of South Dakota. A 21 gun salute took place and every veteran’s gravestone received a custom wreath. Representative Dusty Johnson was a guest speaker at the event. He expressed gratitude to people attending the ceremony.
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Washington, D.C. – Today the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced an overhaul of the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The changes included the Recognizing Military Service in PSLF Act (H.R. 3684), a bill introduced by U.S.
For the past couple of years, the United States government and members of Congress have been trying to right a wrong by recognizing Vietnam veterans who never got the welcome home they so deserved.
Tuesday, several Vietnam veterans from South Dakota were honored at a special pinning ceremony in Brookings.
With August recess wrapping up and Members of Congress soon returning to Washington, I wanted to provide you with some of the highlights from my time spent in South Dakota over the summer work period.
The events that unfolded in Afghanistan over the last few weeks have been a tragedy.
It was devastating to hear the news that thirteen servicemembers were killed – the deadliest day in Afghanistan in over a decade – outside the airport gates in Kabul while assisting Americans and Afghan allies urgently trying to flee the country.