Veterans Affairs officials recently awarded 52 grants valued at $11.6 million to assist homeless veterans’ programs across the nation. The funds will go to public, private non-profit, and faith-based groups helping homeless veterans in 25 states and Puerto Rico. The amounts ranged from $13,130 to $828,322.
Retired Col. Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, known for introducing the "tap code" by which American POWs in North Vietnam could surreptitiously communicate with one another, died July 6. Harris was brutalized by the North Vietnamese over almost eight years of captivity.