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: 14-11-10-PALM DESERT– The Grand Opening of the Veterans Success Center at California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus on Monday, November 10, 2014. Photo by Corinne McCurdy/CSUSB

: The Veterans Home of California in Yountville began evacuating more than 1,000 residents and its staff Tuesday night, afterthe Nuns Fire drew closer to the area from Sonoma County. A fleet of Napa VINE buses and ambulances from four counties ferried men and women off the grounds, with many slated for an existing emergency shelter at the Napa Valley College gymnasium 10 miles south. (Photo courtesy Napa Valley Register/Howard Yune)

: The American Legion Post 291 act as the Color Guard during a dedication ceremony of the upcoming Southern California Veterans Memorial Park in Irvine. (Michael Ares, Contributing Photographer)

: United States military veterans and guests gather in front of the flag poles next to the new site of the upcoming Southern California Veterans Memorial Park in Irvine on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. After years of seeking a cemetery in Orange County, local military veterans and their families are able to finally look at the future site of the highly anticipated Southern California Veterans Memorial Park. The veteransÕ cemetery, the first to be built in Orange County, will occupy 125 acres near the I- and I-405 interchange, and honor an anticipated 210,000 service members who will be ultimately interred there at build out. As part of the dedication, organizers raised the U.S. flag, the California state flag and flags representing the five branches of the United States Armed Forces. (Michael Ares, Contributing Photographer)

: Hope on Alvarado will rise to five stories, including a concrete podium with meeting rooms and parking, and above that, four stories of shipping container homes. The development will be located west of downtown in the Westlake area of Los Angeles. Construction is expected to take six months.(Courtesy rendering)

: Mark Mendoza is photographed in Martinez, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. Mendoza is an Air Force veteran who was an intern with the Berkeley Food and Housing Project’s Veteran’s Peer and Outreach and Internship Program. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group)

: Lisa Stevens, a Wells Fargo V.P., hugs Purple Heart recipient Simon Kim as he receives a payment-free 2018 Honda Accord from Wells Fargo, Southern California Honda Dealers Association and Military Warriors Support Foundation as volunteers gather to work on the Rose Parade Closing Show at Phoenix Decorating Company in Irwindale on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. Kim, a single dad, also recently was surprised with a home. Gonzolo Aguilar, of Wells Fargo is left. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) . .

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: The American Federation of Government Employees has been working to improve veterans’ access to health care, holding rallies outside VA facilities like the one here in St. Louis, Mo. (PRNewsfoto/American Federation of Governme)

: Artswalk opening or Aurea Vista and Day of the Dead fundraiser at Zacatecas

: PTSD ruined Bill Morisette’s personal relationships. Today the Army veteran helps other veterans dealing with service-connected disabilities at Tustin’s Tierney Center for Veteran Services, pictured. Photographed on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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: President Trump, flanked by Vice President Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan, gave a joint address to Congress in February 2017, soon after his inauguration.

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: This photograph, from the African-American Museum and Library at Oakland’s collection, shows black G.I.’s during World War II. The museum throughout February is hosting a series of films and discussions on African-American soldiers and veterans as part of national Black History Month. (Photo courtesy of the African-American Museum and Library at Oakland.)

: President Trump, flanked by Vice President Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan, gave a joint address to Congress in February 2017, soon after his inauguration.

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: U.S.VETS representatives worked closely with San Bernardino planning staffers, neighbors and San Bernardino High School students on a redesign of its $8.1 million housing complex for low-income veterans. The project will go before the Planning Commission at the body’s next regularly-scheduled meeting, U.S.VETS officials said. (Photo courtesy of U.S.VETS)

: A used needle sits on the ground in a park in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S., May 30, 2017, where individuals were arrested earlier in the day during raids to break up heroin and fentanyl drug rings in the region, according to law enforcement officials. REUTERS/Brian Snyder – RC13CB96A6D0

: 2/9/2016 – Embargoed to 0001 Tuesday February 9 PICTURE POSED BY MODEL File photo dated 09/03/15 of a man showing signs of mental health. The practice of sending mentally ill people long distances for treatment should end, a commission has said, as experts branded some services "potentially dangerous". (Photo by PA Images/Sipa USA)

: WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 05: Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin talks about plans to revamp the department’s information technology system during a press briefing at the White House, on June 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Shulkin said the VA will adopt a commercial IT program used by the Pentagon. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, photo, Luke Byerly administers CBD oil to his 14-year-old beagle, Robbie, during a break at Byerly’s job as a technician at a veterinary clinic in east Denver. People anxious to relieve suffering in their pets are increasingly turning to oils and powders that contain CBDs, a non-psychoactive component of marijuana. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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: A truck carrying the replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington D.C., is escorted through San Dimas on its way to Lone Hill Middle School in San Dimas, CA., Wednesday, March 21, 2018. The wall will be on display from March 22 to March 25. (Staff photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

: Mural artist Carlos Aguilar uses a brush to temporarily paint over graffiti that was sprayed on his outdoor mural in Santa Ana depicting nearly 200 Mexican-American veterans on March 20, 2018. He hopes that funds can be raised to help pay for the damage to his mural that is on the side of the La Chiquita Market at the corner of E. Washington Avenue and N. Custer Street in Santa Ana, (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

: Employees pressure wash the walkway of the U.S. VETSÕ new offices on the bottom floor and apartments on the second and third floors at March Veterans Village project at March Air Reserve Base Wednesday in Moreno Valley, Calif. March 28, 2018. (TERRY PIERSON,THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE/SCNG)

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: United States military veterans and guests gather in front of the flag poles next to the new site of the upcoming Southern California Veterans Memorial Park in Irvine on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. After years of seeking a cemetery in Orange County, local military veterans and their families are able to finally look at the future site of the highly anticipated Southern California Veterans Memorial Park. The veteransÕ cemetery, the first to be built in Orange County, will occupy 125 acres near the I- and I-405 interchange, and honor an anticipated 210,000 service members who will be ultimately interred there at build out. As part of the dedication, organizers raised the U.S. flag, the California state flag and flags representing the five branches of the United States Armed Forces. (Michael Ares, Contributing Photographer)

: Lance Cpl. Andrew Lucas, 18, and Pfc. Dustin Reed, 20 saved the lives of four people at the Kern River on tuesday, May 29. (Photo courtesy of GySgt. Evan Ahlin, USMC)

: Emma Herness, 10, of Beaumont, fixes flags that had fallen in 2017 at Riverside National Cemetery. Irvine voters cast ballots Tuesday, June 5, to decide where in their city to build a veterans cemetery that would serve Orange County. /File photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG

: Some walls have been erected as construction continues on the Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic under construction near the Butte County Courthouse on Bruce Road in Chico, Calif. Monday, June 18, 2018. (Bill Husa — Enterprise-Record)

: Quintin Sherard, a Marine Corp veteran, tours his new home in Fontana, CA., Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Sherard is San Bernardino County’s 1,000th homeless veteran to be housed. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/The Sun/SCNG)

: Volunteer Janna Hoehn, 62, collects photos of service members killed in the Vietnam War for the Wall of Faces project. She needs 41 more photos out of 873 fallen veterans who enlisted in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara County. (Sue Hudelson/Courtesy Photo)

: A U.S. Sailor with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 24 and his wife walk together while holding the hands of their daughter during a homecoming, Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Apr.17, 2018. Sailors with the Detachment 2 returned from deployment in which they provided and supported freedom of navigation and maritime security in the West Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by: Sgt. Alex Kouns)

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: U.S. Marine Coprs Vietnam War veteran Timothy Basquez, 64, reacts after receiving his high school diplomas during the 2017 Operation Recognition at Moreno Valley Conference Center in Moreno Valley on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

: A group led by Marine Major Kalani Creutzburg and Staff Sgt. Nate Schoemer, in yellow from left, walk along Doheny Beach with a female bodybuilder, members of the Orange County Fire Authority and the Army in Dana Point, CA on Thursday, September 6, 2018. Schoemer, Creutzburg and the body builder are on a 215 mile hike to create awareness for the plight of homeless veterans. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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: Navy veterans Heather Phillips and Sherwin Sanchez, along with their daughter Sulianna, 1, react with tears of joy after seeing their apartment for the 1st time after it was remodeled with new furnishings and decorations on Friday, September 14, 2018. At right is Vickie Lobo, founder of Knock Knock Angels, who helped organize the makeover. (Photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

: On Saturday a protest rally will take place against a proposal to put temporary a homeless shelter on Beacon Street, shown here in San Pedro on Friday, September 7, 2018. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Daily Breeze/SCNG)

: President Donald J. Trump speaks during an event at Fort Drum, New York, on August 13. President Trump visited the U.S. Army post to recongize Soldiers before signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, which supports the Army’s six modernization priorities that will enable the Army to achieve its Vision by 2028. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thomas Scaggs) 180813-A-TZ475-874

: Staff Sgt. Robert Simonovich of A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 15th Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division takes cover during a combined mission with the Iraqi army in Lutafiyah, Iraq on April 16.

: A U.S. Sailor with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 24 and his wife walk together while holding the hands of their daughter during a homecoming, Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Apr.17, 2018. Sailors with the Detachment 2 returned from deployment in which they provided and supported freedom of navigation and maritime security in the West Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by: Sgt. Alex Kouns)

: U.S. Marine Pfc. Kira Kozik, the first female Marine student to check in to School of Infantry – West, stands in line to turn in her medical records on Camp Pendleton, March 6, 2018. This marks the first male-female integrated Marine Combat Training company on the West Coast. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Kerstin Roberts)

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: TOPSHOT – Firefighters conduct a controlled burn to defend houses against flames from the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex Fire,as it continues to spreads towards the town of Upper Lake, California on August 2, 2018. – Thousands of firefighters in California made some progress against several large-scale blazes that have turned around 200,000 acres (80,940 hectares) into an ashen wasteland, destroyed expensive homes, and killed eight fire personnel and civilians in the most populous US state. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

: U.S. Marine Pfc. Kira Kozik, the first female Marine student to check in to School of Infantry – West, stands in line to turn in her medical records on Camp Pendleton, March 6, 2018. This marks the first male-female integrated Marine Combat Training company on the West Coast. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Kerstin Roberts)

: President Donald Trump talks with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on the phone about a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

: A Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team member stands on first base during the WWAST game against the Newport News police and fire departments in Newport News, Va., April 15, 2017. The members’ amputations range from above the knee to below the elbow, and they hope to educate others that “life without limbs is limitless.” (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Kaylee Dubois)

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: Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie testifies during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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: Government workers and their supporters hold signs during a protest in Boston, Friday, Jan.11, 2019. The workers rallied with Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and other supporters to urge that the Republican president put an end to the shutdown so they can get back to work. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

: A U.S. Marine with Black Sea Rotational Force (BSRF) 18.1 draws a range card while executing a sniper range with partner nations during Exercise Platinum Eagle 18 at Babadag Training Area, Romania, Sept. 3, 2018. Platinum Eagle is an annual field training exercise that reinforces relationships in a joint training environment, builds understanding of partner nation tactics, techniques and procedures, and increases interoperability with Allied and partner forces. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alexander Sturdivant/Released)

: A Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team member stands on first base during the WWAST game against the Newport News police and fire departments in Newport News, Va., April 15, 2017. The members’ amputations range from above the knee to below the elbow, and they hope to educate others that “life without limbs is limitless.” (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Kaylee Dubois)

: J. Alan Fagan with the Mattox Group at the site of future veterans housing on Hayes Circle in Marina in June 2018. The VTC Master Plan for its housing site includes a three-story apartment in the area where Fagan stood, completed rehabilitated housing and space for a tiny house village. (Vern Fisher – Monterey Herald)

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: The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building at sunrise, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, in Washington. After another government shutdown, congress has passed a sweeping long term spending bill which President Donald Trump is expected to sign later this morning. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

: Sue Suh, D.D.S., works with patient Lydia Olmos, of Riverside, at the Smile Unto Him Dental Clinic in Riverside on Monday, March 4, 2019. The clinic offers free dental work to uninsured, low-income residents of Riverside County. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

: A contruction worker digs up dirt in front of the future home of the Veteran Affairs outpatient clinic Friday off of Bruce Road in Chico. (Matt Bates — Enterprise-Record)

: Dale Cook, 91, of Brentwood, is photographed at his home in Brentwood, Calif., on Thursday, September 28, 2017. Cook is holding a signed photograph by Pulitzer prize winning Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. Cook is president of the S.F. chapter of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association, which will be delivering petitions to the Secretary of the Navy calling for a Naval ship to be named for photographer Joe Rosenthal, who snapped the iconic WWII photo of the U.S. service members raising the flag atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Cook was in Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines of the 4th Marine Division. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

: Tony Rambonga Jr., a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 223, hands an American flag to Butch Frederickson, a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 582, outside a south Chico home on Monday. (Risa Johnson — Enterprise-Record)

: A U.S. Marine pays respect to Lance Cpl. Stephen J. Perez, of San Antonio, Texas, who was killed in a mortar attack on April 13, 2006, at Camp Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 28, 2006. At least 2,397 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

: Some walls have been erected as construction continues on the Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic under construction near the Butte County Courthouse on Bruce Road in Chico, Calif. Monday, June 18, 2018. (Bill Husa — Enterprise-Record)

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: Emily puts a red hat onto one of her newborn twins at Eskenazi Health newborns, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. The American Heart Association is giving all newborns in 30 Indiana hospitals the red hats in the month of February as part of the Little Hats, Big Hearts program. The program is five years old. The over 3,000 hats were made by more than 200 volunteers. Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the leading birth defect in newborns. The Little Hats, Big Hearts program raises awareness out heart disease and CHD while promoting heart-healthy life for the families. American Heart Association Renews Little Hats Big Hearts Program In February

: Manuel Conception, U.S. Marine Corp, Joe McKnight, Jr. U.S. Air Force, Carl Worsham, U.S. Army and Clarence Cleaver, U.S. Navy, flank Solano County Superintendent of Schools, Lisette Estrella-Henderson at Monday’s Operation Recognition event in Fairfield, at which each man was presented his long-overdue high school diploma. One other vet, Cecilio Lopez, U.S. Coast Guard, was not able to attend. (Courtesy photo)

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: President Barack Obama signs the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 during a ceremony at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C., Dec. 22, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

: President Barack Obama signs the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 during a ceremony at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C., Dec. 22, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

: Army Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, 20, has been missing from her unit since April 22, 2020, according to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Guillen was last seen in the parking lot of her Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters. (U.S. Army via The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. —

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: Veteran and CalVet Home Loan client Rod Totton stands in front of his home in Sacramento.

: The “La Madonna” statue in the garden, and Chumash medicine bowls. Photo by Timothe Alaniz

: Chumash tribe descendants Stanley Leighton, left, and Shadowdancer Melendez, center with Ventura Veterans Home Administrator Julian Bond. Photo by Timothe Alaniz.

: Ed Gafford and Ventura Home Administrator Julian Bond.

: Ed Gafford’s microscopic photo of re-crystalized sulfur.

: Kelley, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

: Cpl. Magdalena Leones.

: U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham, shown in this undated family photo, was buried, Saturday, May 1, 2004, in Scio, N.Y. Dunham died April 22, at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. Relatives say Jason never regained consciousness after sustaining a head injury from a shrapnel wound, April 14, in the Iraqi city of Karbala. The oldest of four children, Dunham enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2000 after graduating from Scio Central School near Buffalo. His father, Daniel Dunham, said Jason was scheduled to be out of the service in July. (AP Photo/The Wellsville Daily Reporter, courtesy Dunham family)

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: Fort Moore Hill Memorial in Los Angeles.

: An 1890 photograph of the original California Republic flag.

: Photographer Mickey Strand and a resident of the Veterans Home of California-Chula Vista.

: Photographer Mickey Strand and a resident of the Veterans Home of California-Chula Vista.

: Fritzoni serving in Afghanistan.

: Sandy Duchac, vice-president of the board of Veteran Sisters, and Fritzoni.

: Iraq War veteran Christopher Adriano in helicopter.

: Rose during his Navy service.

: Rose (second from right) and CalVet teammates at the State Fair.

: Dr. Vogus in flight.

: Dr. Vogus at the Veterans Home of California-Redding.

: John and Bjo Trimble.

: Bjo Trimble (left) on the step of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” with actor William Shatner (center) and writer David Gerrold.

: Bjo Trimble’s “Star Trek Concordance.”

: Bjo Trimble’s “Star Trek Concordance.”

: Navy veteran Derek Rose and his grandmother, Marian Metzler.

: Dr. James Vogus.

: Vin Scully as a Navy recruit.

: Jose Julio Sarria in his Army uniform.

: Maggie Gee

: Archie Williams, far left, at the Tuskegee Institute.

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: Malott during her service in the U.S. Army.

: Griffin and co-workers at the Veterans Home of California-Barstow.

: Griffin during his Army service.

: Malott and her father, Rene Cardenas.

: Malott at the Barstow Home.

: Liz Hargrove-Washington

: Thirnbeck at the Yountville Veterans Home.

: Thirnbeck during his military service.

: B.G. Sick, chief safety officer at the Yountville Veterans Home.

: Low is proud to serve veterans at CalVet.

: Low’s medals and photos from her Army service.

: Tejeda in Iraq.

: Tejeda outside the Fresno Veterans Home.

: Rudquist during her Air Force service.

: Jennifer Rudquist.

: Weaver during her Army National Guard service.

: Vargas at the Yountville Veterans Home.

: Journalist H.G. Shaw in an 1895 drawing from the San Francisco Call newspaper.

: Did H.G. Shaw see Martians in Lodi in 1896?

: Charron today.

: Charron with President Bill Clinton.

: Sue Bone in her backyard.

: Raudales during his Navy service.

: Lawrence at the Lancaster Veterans Home.

: The Lancaster Veterans Home.

: California State Capitol building.

: Mumma and his new home.

: Mumma signs the paperwork for his new home.

: Mumma with the keys to his new home.

: Edwards in front of his apple tree.

: Hollis’ high school badge.

: Hollis today at CalVet.

: Fields at the Yountville Home.

: California women veterans are invited to complete the survey.

: Col. Allen Allensworth

: Hodrick at his keyboard.

: Bradner with Langley’s plaque at the Sacramento City Cemetery.

: Lipps in the Redding Veterans Home store.

: Cornish and paper poppies.

: Garza-Brown brings joy and excitement to the Fresno Veterans Home.

: Kepplin volunteer at the Yountville Veterans Home for over two decades.

: Sweeney is a proud Marine Corps veteran.

: Adam Shepherd with a photo of his grandfather, Robert.

: Gary Bonin with a photo of his grandfather Albert.

: In May we recognize Mental Health Awareness Month.

: CalVet is looking for new ways to provide services for veterans aged 55 years and older.

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