WEBVTT 00:06.069 --> 00:08.430 MELISSA HEINTZ: Welcome to the next edition of 00:08.430 --> 00:12.430 The American Veteran -- a news magazine produced by the Department of Veterans Affairs 00:12.430 --> 00:14.200 for you, your family and Caregivers. 00:14.200 --> 00:17.750 I'm Melissa Heintz, of the Air National Guard. 00:17.750 --> 00:19.630 HENRY HUNTLEY: And I'm Henry Huntley – an Army Veteran. 00:19.630 --> 00:24.470 We're here at the Defense Media Activity studios at Fort Meade to bring you the latest news 00:24.470 --> 00:29.119 and benefits from VA, as well as inspiring stories of your fellow Veterans. 00:29.119 --> 00:33.620 MELISSA HEINTZ: All of our stories in our program today can be found online at VA’s 00:33.620 --> 00:35.260 blog VAntage Point. 00:35.260 --> 00:36.800 Visit us at blogs va.gov. 00:36.800 --> 00:44.070 HENRY HUNTLEY: Like many Veterans, Brandon brought the war home, and was using alcohol 00:44.070 --> 00:45.070 to cope. 00:45.070 --> 00:50.570 With help from VA, as well as friends and family, he's now turned his life around. 00:50.570 --> 00:54.430 BRANDON: There was an island in the Euphrates River. 00:54.430 --> 00:58.920 The Intel was that there was enemy on this island and they were shooting mortars from 00:58.920 --> 01:00.840 this island. 01:00.840 --> 01:05.680 You know, you have your M-16 slung; your magazines; you have your grenades… so you're swimming 01:05.680 --> 01:08.990 with a full combat load. 01:08.990 --> 01:14.400 That morning my swimming partner was Corporal Jeffrey Greene. 01:14.400 --> 01:19.970 We were probably maybe 15 feet from the island, and I told Corporal Greene I was going to 01:19.970 --> 01:26.920 try to touch the Bottom… and I couldn't touch, so we started swimming again. 01:26.920 --> 01:32.579 By the time I got from that 15 feet, you know, I swam that 15 feet, where I tried to touch, 01:32.579 --> 01:39.619 I ended up getting to the island and I turned around and corporal Greene was gone. 01:39.619 --> 01:41.830 I always wondered why me? 01:41.830 --> 01:42.830 Why didn't I get hurt? 01:42.830 --> 01:43.830 Why didn't I get shot? 01:43.830 --> 01:44.830 Why didn't I get killed? 01:44.830 --> 01:48.369 You know, why did why did these guys have to, have to die? 01:48.369 --> 01:53.780 And you know they remind me they remind me to get up and you know, make the most of my 01:53.780 --> 01:54.780 day. 01:54.780 --> 02:02.869 ANNIE: Well, when he, when he came home, he came home definitely changed. 02:02.869 --> 02:08.090 SADIE: He was home, but, he brought the war back with him. 02:08.090 --> 02:09.720 I think. 02:09.720 --> 02:15.990 And, I didn't see the day-to-day thing but I just, I know, later on he told us, there 02:15.990 --> 02:19.970 was four or five times where he was thinking about suicide. 02:19.970 --> 02:24.660 And the hardest part is, that we all loved him so much and we couldn't help him. 02:24.660 --> 02:29.660 BRANDON: I had a really hard time with the transition from military to civilian life. 02:29.660 --> 02:34.049 I had a hard time sleeping. 02:34.049 --> 02:38.889 If I wasn't blacked-out drunk, I would I would have bad dreams, and you 02:38.889 --> 02:43.730 Know, that was my way of coping with the problem -- was blacking out. 02:43.730 --> 02:49.650 So, I drank to, I drank to try to solve my problems. 02:49.650 --> 02:58.990 The New Year’s of 2007, I ended up meeting on this girl named Lara. 02:58.990 --> 03:04.910 LARA: My name is Lara and I've been dating Brandon for going on eight years on New Year's. 03:04.910 --> 03:09.040 BRANDON: this VA appointment had come up and I was unsure 03:09.040 --> 03:14.440 on if I was going to go or not, but, you know, all I did was, you know, that one person to 03:14.440 --> 03:17.600 tell me yes, do it, and I went. 03:17.600 --> 03:22.410 LARA: I did encourage him to get help but there's no way that I could tell him to get 03:22.410 --> 03:26.340 help and him actually do it, and it be successful – it was something that had to come from 03:26.340 --> 03:27.340 within himself. 03:27.340 --> 03:30.220 BRANDON: I ended up going to the Minneapolis VA. 03:30.220 --> 03:34.450 I was diagnosed with PTS and an anxiety disorder. 03:34.450 --> 03:37.560 They have plenty of awesome doctors and all these programs. 03:37.560 --> 03:39.690 I used the Montgomery GI Bill. 03:39.690 --> 03:44.071 I went to school and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, at Chippewa Valley Technical College, and 03:44.071 --> 03:49.120 got two associate degrees -- one in business management and one in marketing. 03:49.120 --> 03:55.100 I graduated school and I started a production company and I travel the United States and 03:55.100 --> 03:58.690 Canada recording Native American music. 03:58.690 --> 04:01.250 [NATURAL SOUND] 04:01.250 --> 04:11.821 A lot of the recordings that we do are live, um so we travel to from state to state, from 04:11.821 --> 04:17.190 province to province, going to these different pow wows, and we actually set up the microphones 04:17.190 --> 04:19.130 around the drum. 04:19.130 --> 04:21.430 The singers sing their songs and you know, I have 04:21.430 --> 04:27.380 a pretty easy job -- I just hit record. 04:27.380 --> 04:33.380 Anything that you might have going on, that's what the VA is for, and there are plenty of 04:33.380 --> 04:35.020 people there to help you. 04:35.020 --> 04:40.540 LARA: So, just, I think ultimately supporting each other, and loving each other, come what 04:40.540 --> 04:41.540 may. 04:41.540 --> 04:46.600 BRANDON: I couldn't ask for anything more right now, I, you know, I'm really happy where 04:46.600 --> 04:47.800 I'm at right now. 04:47.800 --> 04:50.170 HENRY HUNTLEY: For more information on the Montgomery 04:50.170 --> 04:56.250 GI Bill, as well as the many benefits and services VA offers, visit EXPLORE.VA.GOV 04:56.250 --> 05:01.790 MELISSA HENITZ: Michael Fitzmaurice enlisted in the US 05:01.790 --> 05:04.790 Army at the height of the Vietnam War. 05:04.790 --> 05:09.520 When he spoke with us, he reflected on the Battle of Khe Sanh, for which he received 05:09.520 --> 05:10.850 the Medal of Honor. 05:10.850 --> 05:11.850 MICHAEL FITZMAURICE: 05:11.850 --> 05:14.650 I had a pretty normal life. 05:14.650 --> 05:19.780 I think we 05:19.780 --> 05:21.730 had a pretty normal childhood. 05:21.730 --> 05:22.730 Run around 05:22.730 --> 05:23.901 from daylight to dusk. 05:23.901 --> 05:26.320 I don't know... but Ma never knew 05:26.320 --> 05:30.470 where we were but we were always into 05:30.470 --> 05:31.720 something. 05:31.720 --> 05:35.330 Well, my dad was in the Army, and my 05:35.330 --> 05:36.330 uncles. 05:36.330 --> 05:39.490 I didn't want to go to 05:39.490 --> 05:40.960 college, so. 05:40.960 --> 05:43.370 Me and three friends 05:43.370 --> 05:45.710 jumped in the car came to Sioux Falls 05:45.710 --> 05:47.700 and joined up with the military. 05:47.700 --> 05:48.700 They 05:48.700 --> 05:53.740 didn't know I enlisted 'til I came home 05:53.740 --> 05:54.740 and... 05:54.740 --> 05:57.840 Dad wasn't very happy, but... 05:57.840 --> 06:04.810 I didn't even know what Vietnam was at the time... 06:04.810 --> 06:06.300 just thought that's what you're, you 06:06.300 --> 06:09.610 should be doing -- give back a little bit 06:09.610 --> 06:12.650 to your country, and... 06:12.650 --> 06:19.389 Basic was an eye opener. 06:19.389 --> 06:21.360 I mean, they kept 06:21.360 --> 06:24.470 pounding into you, you know, learn what we're 06:24.470 --> 06:29.170 teaching, cause you're going to need it. and, 06:29.170 --> 06:34.030 that's really true... 06:34.030 --> 06:39.300 Every day, while orders to Vietnam were coming, 06:39.300 --> 06:47.380 and so they came, and I was gone. 06:47.380 --> 06:52.060 I came into the second of 17 calv's... they 06:52.060 --> 06:54.360 were cookin' steaks and they had a big 06:54.360 --> 06:58.330 trailer full of beer and I thought man, 06:58.330 --> 06:59.330 this is gonna be this is gonna be the 06:59.330 --> 07:05.470 place... and that was a great unit. 07:05.470 --> 07:10.680 Then there was... everything was connected 07:10.680 --> 07:11.680 with trench. 07:11.680 --> 07:13.400 It was about neck-deep, 07:13.400 --> 07:16.560 and they went out to the fighting 07:16.560 --> 07:20.000 positions. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 Life was good. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.080 We guarded the airstrip. 07:24.080 --> 07:26.450 But then, 07:26.450 --> 07:28.210 for about three days we're getting 07:28.210 --> 07:29.210 rocked -- blowing crap up. 07:29.210 --> 07:30.520 the night 07:30.520 --> 07:37.639 of the 22nd, I was put on guard duty, 07:37.639 --> 07:39.460 so I was out. 07:39.460 --> 07:41.580 I'd just come back 07:41.580 --> 07:43.470 to go to bed. 07:43.470 --> 07:46.940 i think Phil was gonna go out... 07:46.940 --> 07:52.190 And the rockets and stuff, started coming in... 07:52.190 --> 07:54.820 and it was like... 07:54.820 --> 07:56.200 like daylight out there. 07:56.200 --> 07:57.639 So, him and I 07:57.639 --> 08:03.140 were gonna truck out to the fighting position... 08:03.140 --> 08:04.610 no more got out. 08:04.610 --> 08:06.720 when the other was a 08:06.720 --> 08:13.020 load up with all the crap. so him and I got 08:13.020 --> 08:16.860 the whole... then they satchel charged 08:16.860 --> 08:19.790 our bunker, which buried the other guys 08:19.790 --> 08:21.210 in there. 08:21.210 --> 08:25.830 And then went downhill from there... 08:25.830 --> 08:28.740 They were coming right through our third 08:28.740 --> 08:29.740 platoon. 08:29.740 --> 08:33.510 So, it was Phil and me out there 08:33.510 --> 08:37.639 against the world. 08:37.639 --> 08:41.220 He shot some guys up before I'd ever even seen 'em. 08:41.220 --> 08:43.610 Or they'd have had me... 08:43.610 --> 08:46.050 I seen somebody trucking up... 08:46.050 --> 08:50.150 I thought, "oh God, must be one of ours." 08:50.150 --> 08:53.810 He come up there, and boom. 08:53.810 --> 08:54.970 He throwed in something. 08:54.970 --> 09:01.700 And all I remember is... one of them 09:01.700 --> 09:09.270 I don't know, he was inside and 09:09.270 --> 09:17.170 for some reason I went out, and there was a whole bunch of them, coming down the trenches, 09:17.170 --> 09:27.150 so... shot 'em up... next thing I know is I'm laying up on top of the... out of the 09:27.150 --> 09:28.150 hole... 09:28.150 --> 09:29.650 I blew up. 09:29.650 --> 09:41.529 From then on, I don't really remember... they came and pulled us out... then, I don't know. 09:41.529 --> 09:47.800 I ended up in Fitzsimons. 09:47.800 --> 09:50.390 Can't regret any of it, though. 09:50.390 --> 09:56.510 It's just a part of your life. 09:56.510 --> 10:06.440 I was discharged right out of Fitzsimons in, I think it was April Seventh of '72. 10:06.440 --> 10:11.090 And then that was life. 10:11.090 --> 10:16.400 I guess, you get up and go to work, and they call me down to the office... we had a call 10:16.400 --> 10:18.710 from the White House. 10:18.710 --> 10:25.010 And told me I was going to receive the Medal of Honor. 10:25.010 --> 10:30.180 I never even knew I was put in for one. 10:30.180 --> 10:35.870 I joined the National Guard when I with discharged out of Fitzsimons Hospital. 10:35.870 --> 10:50.790 I stayed in there for about 18 years, and then I got a job at the VA Hospital, and finished 10:50.790 --> 10:55.230 out to retirement. 10:55.230 --> 10:57.050 That's the beauty of the Medal. 10:57.050 --> 11:07.100 You get to go all over the country to things, and meet so many nice people... 11:07.100 --> 11:13.670 Some of 'em you stay in contact with forever. 11:13.670 --> 11:16.529 MELISSA HEINTZ: Mike continues to volunteer his 11:16.529 --> 11:20.940 time at the Sioux Falls VA Medical Center because he knows the importance 11:20.940 --> 11:23.649 of serving his fellow Veterans. 11:23.649 --> 11:26.940 ... after the break -- "I'm doing this" -- the winter sports 11:26.940 --> 11:31.430 clinic uses the power of sports show Veterans with disabilities that anything 11:31.430 --> 11:32.430 is possible... 11:32.430 --> 11:36.130 [THEME MUSIC] 11:36.130 --> 11:47.210 We grew up together we believed in something bigger than ourselves the military took me 11:47.210 --> 11:50.550 to one side of the world and her to the other and even though 11:50.550 --> 11:54.810 she was always the strong one when we caught up years later I found out 11:54.810 --> 11:59.680 she had fallen on some hard times it was her call to make but doing it together 11:59.680 --> 12:04.029 made all the difference when I see homeless vets on my route I always think 12:04.029 --> 12:09.209 to myself we both swore an oath to protect our way of life to protect our community 12:09.209 --> 12:13.180 with VA hotline for homeless vets I can get them connected with help help 12:13.180 --> 12:17.290 to get them back on their feet again da's round-the-clock hotline can put 12:17.290 --> 12:21.440 Veterans who are homeless in touch with the resources and support they earned 12:21.440 --> 12:25.860 through their military service you have the power to help of Veterans facing 12:25.860 --> 12:31.220 homelessness go to va.gov slash homeless to print your wild cards forVeterans 12:31.220 --> 12:36.330 who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness call 877-424-3838. 12:36.330 --> 12:40.300 [THEME MUSIC] 12:40.300 --> 12:46.070 HENRY HUNTLEY: the Veterans Legacy Program offers a 12:46.070 --> 12:49.940 wealth of tools for educators in the public with a focus on honoring the 12:49.940 --> 12:55.480 sacrifices of our nation's Veterans by engaging educators students researchers 12:55.480 --> 12:58.700 than the general public the Veterans Legacy Program hopes to build 12:58.700 --> 13:02.270 appreciation for what earlier generations have given to the nation by 13:02.270 --> 13:05.370 sharing stories of all Americans who served. 13:05.370 --> 13:10.930 BARBARA GANNON: Getting to know a person is a very intimate experience and their life, 13:10.930 --> 13:18.440 and their death... what strikes you is the varied stories of the people. 13:18.440 --> 13:21.830 Who they were before the war -- what their jobs were. 13:21.830 --> 13:27.820 The sort of totality of this person who had this seminal experience, but who 13:27.820 --> 13:32.240 lived a life before and afterwards. 13:32.240 --> 13:38.450 KENNETH HOLLIDAY: t's always breathtaking when you see 13:38.450 --> 13:40.630 the hills, just full of white. 13:40.630 --> 13:42.930 You realize how many people are here, how much 13:42.930 --> 13:45.090 history is here, and what these peopledid... 13:45.090 --> 13:49.279 I think any Veteran would just want to be remembered... 'hey we're ordinary people, 13:49.279 --> 13:55.940 just like all of you, and we did this because, we felt the need that we had to do 13:55.940 --> 13:56.940 it. 13:56.940 --> 13:58.630 BRYCE CARPENTER: the largest initiative within the 13:58.630 --> 14:02.380 Veterans Legacy Program is to engage with the academic community and a 14:02.380 --> 14:06.870 contract partnership in which professors professional scholars engaged their 14:06.870 --> 14:10.470 students and teach them the skills to do the research about Veterans lives 14:10.470 --> 14:12.350 Veterans from their local cemeteries. 14:12.350 --> 14:18.260 AMELIA LYONS: These kinds of things where the students are able to combine the sort 14:18.260 --> 14:21.730 of, granular level of doing the biography of an 14:21.730 --> 14:26.120 individual, along with the larger context -- to be able to tell that as a story and 14:26.120 --> 14:28.400 not just as a couple of bullet points. 14:28.400 --> 14:38.800 BARBARA GANNON: And I think it gives them a inner understanding of the importance of 14:38.800 --> 14:41.600 Veterans -- not only in the war, but also peace. 14:41.600 --> 14:47.779 BRYCE CARPENTER: Then at a certain point it makes the transition from the academic to 14:47.779 --> 14:54.300 the personal, and they get to know these Veterans they get to know their lives, they get to 14:54.300 --> 14:55.300 know who their children were, they get to know where they lived, what they 14:55.300 --> 14:56.560 did after, after whatever war they served in. 14:56.560 --> 14:59.920 And they start to see them as neighbors from a different generation -- 14:59.920 --> 15:01.460 almost friends. 15:01.460 --> 15:05.870 STUDENT 1: My Veteran's Archie Hawkins 15:05.870 --> 15:08.100 STUDENT 2: William Auto Grupp served in the First World War 15:08.100 --> 15:11.480 STUDENT 3: My Veteran was Sergeant Eugine Bartow Fricks 15:11.480 --> 15:18.370 My Veteran, Fred Kalinchuk, was a Army Veteran, who received a Purple Heart, so I 15:18.370 --> 15:20.529 automatically drew some connections. 15:20.529 --> 15:26.279 He's a combat Veteran, which, so am I, so I immediately wanted to know more about 15:26.279 --> 15:27.279 him. 15:27.279 --> 15:30.029 AMELIA LYONS: what's great about this this kind of research on that level is if they 15:30.029 --> 15:33.270 are committed to the Veteran -- to the person... 15:33.270 --> 15:36.860 KENNETH HOLLIDAY: It wasn't just his military service... 15:36.860 --> 15:38.670 he's part of our heritage. 15:38.670 --> 15:43.480 Even though he's not maybe family by blood, he's contributed and shaped and developed 15:43.480 --> 15:44.480 this country. 15:44.480 --> 15:49.880 BARBARA GANNON: When you go to a National Cemetery, you have all of these people who 15:49.880 --> 15:51.780 have one thing in common -- they were Veterans -- even 15:51.780 --> 15:56.300 though there might be different wars, their service to the nation didn't end with the 15:56.300 --> 16:02.060 end of the war -- they continued to serve in so many other ways... and you have to understand 16:02.060 --> 16:10.070 that because: it isn't just about the war; the war also shapes the peace. 16:10.070 --> 16:19.649 AMELIA LYONS: I have had students say to me things like I brought someone who had been 16:19.649 --> 16:22.440 forgotten in life and in death back to life... 16:22.440 --> 16:26.329 KENNETH HOLLIDAY: This is a person, like, a real person with a long life. 16:26.329 --> 16:29.050 He lived to be almost 100 years old. 16:29.050 --> 16:34.190 He served for two years, and he decided to be buried at Florida National Cemetery, meaning 16:34.190 --> 16:37.200 that this is what defines his entire life, and it's up 16:37.200 --> 16:38.839 to us to tell that story. 16:38.839 --> 16:42.191 BRYCE CARPENTER: NCA is committed to sharing the memory of these 16:42.191 --> 16:44.440 Veterans, in perpetuity. 16:44.440 --> 16:47.950 This is part of our memorialization effort -- we not only memorialize the Veteran in 16:47.950 --> 16:51.260 the National Cemetery, but in any way that we can, and 16:51.260 --> 16:57.079 so, as the public engages with media in new ways, NCA is changing to meet thoseexpectations, 16:57.079 --> 17:01.360 to share the memory the stories of sacrifice of these Veterans in any way that we can engage 17:01.360 --> 17:02.360 of the public. 17:02.360 --> 17:06.480 BARBARA GANNON: What I'm trying to convey to them is how the National Cemetery are about 17:06.480 --> 17:12.020 democracy and about being an American, regardless of your race, ethnicity, or class, 17:12.020 --> 17:17.309 you're all Veterans, and the people of the United States have decided that that is a 17:17.309 --> 17:21.620 special status that is beyond all of our traditional categories. 17:21.620 --> 17:28.079 So, they all lie together or they're all memorialized together in one landscape. 17:28.079 --> 17:34.309 KENNETH HOLLIDAY: When you visit any cemetery, you're looking at a headstone with a name 17:34.309 --> 17:39.779 and a date but there's so much more in between those two dates so we dig if we find their 17:39.779 --> 17:47.169 life story. Fred Kalinchuk. What you're seeing right now he's buried here but this isn't 17:47.169 --> 17:53.369 just his headstone this is his life once I go back and I see those hills white again 17:53.369 --> 17:58.919 I realized that my one story was just a tiny little drop in that entire bucket of white 17:58.919 --> 18:05.389 field and I can look at any one of those headstones and kind of feel the same connection now that 18:05.389 --> 18:12.999 I feel for, Fred Kalinchuk, or my own brothers that I served with... 18:12.999 --> 18:24.999 HENRY HUNTLEY: For more information and educational materials on the local Legacy National Heritage 18:24.999 --> 18:28.070 program, please visit CEM.VA.GOV 18:28.070 --> 18:35.789 MELISSA HEINTZ: earlier this spring nearly 400 Veterans and active-duty military members 18:35.789 --> 18:38.720 joined volunteers and VA medical professionals in 18:38.720 --> 18:44.460 Snowmass Colorado for the 31st National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic. 18:44.460 --> 18:50.059 We begin with a story about a disabled Navy Veteran who learned to ski at the age of 63 18:50.059 --> 18:51.570 NATURAL SOUND 18:51.570 --> 18:53.450 "I'll try anything once!" 18:53.450 --> 18:56.600 RAQUEL ARDEN: We got down the hill andI thought, oh this is 18:56.600 --> 18:57.600 great. 18:57.600 --> 18:59.049 you guys are great. 18:59.049 --> 19:02.489 you're steering me wonderfuly, it feels like I'm doing it. 19:02.489 --> 19:07.149 They said, "well, you are doing it." and I said, "yeah 19:07.149 --> 19:09.700 I'm doing it but you're steering me, right?" 19:09.700 --> 19:12.360 She said, "No, this is all you!" 19:12.360 --> 19:13.379 Me! 19:13.379 --> 19:16.419 I'm doing this! 19:16.419 --> 19:19.690 At the age of 63, I'm skiing? 19:19.690 --> 19:23.700 I never ever thought I'd be able to do this in all my life. 19:23.700 --> 19:27.409 You know, when I ended up in a wheelchair, I thought, 19:27.409 --> 19:28.409 that it -- my life's over. 19:28.409 --> 19:32.239 I can't do anything anymore. and I was way wrong. 19:32.239 --> 19:38.070 REPORTER: To the Veteran who's tentative about trying what do you think? 19:38.070 --> 19:40.669 RAQUEL ARDEN: They haven't lived. 19:40.669 --> 19:43.739 They haven't lived until they try this because they can do 19:43.739 --> 19:44.739 it. 19:44.739 --> 19:47.480 if I can do it, anybody can do it, you know? 19:47.480 --> 19:50.149 And see all these people make it possible. 19:50.149 --> 19:52.320 I'm always smiling. 19:52.320 --> 19:54.889 I'm always smiling, now. 19:54.889 --> 19:58.929 Now, every time somebody sees me, you know if they listen 19:58.929 --> 20:04.250 to me, I'll tell them my story you know I'll tell them that I'm alive now. 20:04.250 --> 20:07.270 I never thought my life was special -- but it 20:07.270 --> 20:08.270 is. 20:08.270 --> 20:09.270 it is. 20:09.270 --> 20:12.399 And you know everybody tells me that at the VA. 20:12.399 --> 20:14.039 I thank God every day. 20:14.039 --> 20:21.100 I really do, because I know I've lived the life -- and it's been a good one 20:21.100 --> 20:25.859 MELISSA HEINTZ: for more information about the Winter Sports Clinic, 20:25.859 --> 20:28.019 visit wintersportsclinic.org 20:28.019 --> 20:33.309 HENRY HUNTLEY: that's it for this edition of The American Veteran. 20:33.309 --> 20:35.250 We're honored to bring these stories to you. 20:35.250 --> 20:38.119 MELISSA HEINTZ: You can see everything we shared with you today, as 20:38.119 --> 20:42.659 well as detailed information about Veterans resources online -- please follow 20:42.659 --> 20:46.503 our social media channels and subscribe to our podcast "This Week at VA" -- available 20:46.503 --> 20:47.503 in your App Store. 20:47.503 --> 20:49.000 HENRY HUNTLEY: we appreciate you taking the time to watch our program. 20:49.000 --> 20:50.000 Thank you. 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 [THEME MUSIC] 20:51.000 --> 20:51.959 VISIT BLOGS.VA.GOV to learn more...