After serving, veterans deserve our respect and appreciation -- and the help they need. Those were among the hard-to-argue-with points made on the Sunday Opinion cover in the News Tribune.
But the editorial may not have gone far enough. It didn't include as much information as it could have about the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, or VA, according to Jeff Hall, a team leader at the Veterans Center in Duluth.
"The department ... provides a wide range of benefits, including disability compensation, education and training, vocational rehabilitation and employment assistance, home loan guaranty, dependent and survivor benefits, medical and mental health care, life insurance and burial benefits," Hall wrote to the News Tribune Opinion page.
"Serving veterans in northern Minnesota, (the) VA has outpatient clinics in Superior, Hibbing and Bemidji," he said. "At the Duluth Vet Center, individual and group readjustment counseling services are available. The Vet Center also provides outreach services to Grand Rapids, Hibbing and Bemidji. And a mobile vet center, stationed out (of) Brooklyn Park (Minn.) also serves veterans across the Iron Range."
More information on specific programs and services can be found at va.gov, a Web address most veterans should know. Here are some phone numbers, courtesy of Hall, that Northland vets may want to keep handy:
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