{"id":138710,"date":"2023-03-17T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=138710"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:00:39","slug":"the-department-of-veterans-affairs-to-change-its-motto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=138710","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Veterans Affairs to change its motto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_138711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138711\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Department-of-Veterans-Affairs-motto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Department-of-Veterans-Affairs-motto-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Department-of-Veterans-Affairs-motto-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Department-of-Veterans-Affairs-motto-445x333.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Department-of-Veterans-Affairs-motto-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Department-of-Veterans-Affairs-motto.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Department of Veterans Affairs motto. (Leo Shane III\/Staff)<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since 1959, the Department of Veterans Affairs used the following motto: To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan. This statement is attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Based on interviews they conducted with over 30,000 veterans, the VA learned that the motto needed to incorporate a wider scope of veterans.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From the Army Times:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new motto will still be based on Lincoln&#8217;s words but instead reads: &#8220;To fulfill President Lincoln&#8217;s promise to care for those who have served in our nation&#8217;s military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The use of male-specific language in the original mission statement has long drawn criticism from veterans advocates who note that women veterans are the fastest growing cohort of the community, expected to make up one in every five living veterans in America by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>VA leaders said the decision was made after interviews with more than 30,000 veterans over the last two years. According to those surveys, the change was supported by the majority of every age group, racial group and gender group.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that the motto change not only includes a wider scope of veterans, but also better emphasizes the role of veterans&#8217; family in their care and benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever any veteran, family member, caregiver, or survivor walks by a VA facility, we want them to see themselves in the mission statement on the outside of the building,&#8221; VA Secretary Denis McDonough said in a statement. &#8220;We are here to serve all veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors &#8212; and now, our mission statement reflects exactly that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new motto also downplays the role of combat operations in veterans benefits, to reinforce that anyone who serves honorably in the military is granted a wide range of education support and financial assistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Army Times has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/veterans\/2023\/03\/16\/va-to-change-its-motto-droppin-male-only-language\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1959, the Department of Veterans Affairs used the following motto: To care for him who &hellip; <a title=\"The Department of Veterans Affairs to change its motto\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=138710\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Department of Veterans Affairs to change its motto<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}