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Photo courtesy of Vanessa Smolen From left to right, Shelby Allison, Ashlyn Tucker and Mia Smolen were among about 1,000 who showed up at the West Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday, April 27, to welcome home World War II veterans arriving from that last Honor Flight of Southeast Florida trip. Operation Homecoming is a new part of the local hub’s efforts to honor the veterans. The next arrival will be on Saturday, May 25, at 7:50 p.m. Or-ganizer Vanessa Smolen hopes people will help spread the word in the meantime. For information, call Smolen at (772) 834-9340.

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State urges veterans to apply for VA benefits The Florida Department of

Veterans Affairs is on a mission to get more of the state’s 1.6 million veterans to apply for the federal Department of Veterans Affairs’ healthcare and other benefits. Some — particularly the state’s 449,000 Vietnam-era and 140,000 women veterans — seem reluctant to apply for VA health-care and other benefits. “The last figure I have, and this

is 2011 data, is that there were 669,205 veterans enrolled in the VA healthcare system,” Steve Murray, communications director of the FDVA, said. “Surely there’s more today.” The state and federal veterans

departments are separate. The state department has about 100 veterans claims examiners, also called veterans service officers, who help veterans navigate the federal VA when applying for benefits. Most work at VA facili-

ties around the state. The Florida Legislature just approved adding 13 new ones in its $74.5 billion 2013-2014 budget. At press time, Gov. Rick Scott had not yet signed the budget, and could veto items in it.It’s doubtful the governor, a

Navy veteran, would nix the addi-tional claims examiners who are leading the FDVA’s outreach to get more veterans enrolled in the VA. “During the last federal fiscal

year, (veterans) brought in about 13.7 billion federal dollars into Florida’s economy,” Murray said in the previous interview. That’s just in retirement, pen-

sions, healthcare and educa-tional benefits. It doesn’t include ancillary dollars, such as con-struction of the new Orlando VA hospital, slated to be substantial-ly completed sometime after July, 2013, and finally finished some-time in 2014. The 1.2 million-square-foot facility will cost the federal VA at least $612 million.

Donna Carlsen, St. Lucie Coun-ty’s veterans service coordinator, said there’s a relationship be-tween the number of veterans in areas enrolling for benefits and where the VA puts facilities.

The Veterans Health Adminis-tration is split among 23 Veter-ans Integrated Service Network regions. Each gets a share of the

By Patrick McCallisterFor Veteran Voice

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federal funding based on several factors, including the popula-tions of veterans enrolled in their healthcare systems. Florida has VISN 8, the Sunshine Healthcare Network, almost to itself. It’s one of only four states with a million or more veterans. Additionally, VISN 16, the South Central VA Health Care Network, serves part of the Panhandle. Carlsen said it’s important for

Florida veterans to enroll in the VA to help make up for part-time residents using its healthcare facilities. “What happens in our VISN,

because we have such an influx of snowbirds, we don’t get the money appropriated to the snow-birds.” Those dollars go to the VISNs

they’re domiciled in. “Their monies don’t come here,”

Carlsen said. “So, our VISN is always underpaid.” Carlsen said there’ve been nu-

merous changes to VA policies in recent years, including expan-sions of presumptive service-con-nected conditions, various health conditions that are now

presumed to be related to mili-tary service. She said if a veteran hasn’t talked with a service officer in the last few years, he or she could have benefits coming now that weren’t available before. “(The St. Lucie County Veterans

Service Office) grossed $89 mil-lion (in new benefits) due to the new presumptive conditions for Vietnam-era veterans,” Carlsen said.St. Lucie has about 45,000 vet-

erans. Nearly 24,000 with disabil-ity ratings from the VA. Murray pointed out another ex-

ample of increased enrollments in VA having tangible benefits for all Floridians. “Just looking at Tallahas-

see, where I’m living,” he said. “They’ve looked at the need and said, ‘We need a new national cemetery, just because of the enrollees they have in the VA healthcare system.” Every county has a veterans ser-

vice office to help veterans apply for benefits. Information about the offices is available at counties’ websites. The FDVA is online at floridavets.org. “This is not your father’s VA and

we’d like you to come in,” Murray said.

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Photo courtesy of Meredith Dayna LevyIndian River State College will present Meredith Dayna Levy’s 2012 play “Decision Height,” from May 23-25. It tells the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots pro-gram during WWII and was written as an Honors Thesis at Hollins College in Virginia.

New play explores women pilots in WWII FORT PIERCE — In 2012,

when Meredith Dayna Levy was a senior at Hollins College in Virginia, she submitted the play, “Decision Height” as her Honors Thesis. The play tells the true story

of six women volunteers in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program who shuttled planes to airbases in the United States and Britain during WWII. It takes place at the airfield in Sweetwater, Texas, where the

women were being trained, and it explores their lives and what motivated them to fly. David Moberg, director of Indi-

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Staff photoVeteran Voice and Your Voice News & Views managing editor Tammy Raits, left, publisher Steve Erlanger and sales consultant Deb-bi Denning smile for the camera at the 2013 Community Papers of Florida conference held May 3-4 in Orlando. The six-month-old publications won 12 awards at the annual statewide industry competition.

Veteran Voice, two sister publications win 12 awards Publisher Steve Erlanger is

pleased to announce that Your Voice News & Views and Veter-an Voice won 12 awards at the annual Community Papers of Florida conference held May 3-4 in Orlando. “It was a great showing at the

2013 CPF awards dinner (Friday) night. We were the eighth-most honored company in the state. Most of the seven that were above us (in number of awards) were weekly papers that are owned by larger media corporations. No other local news companies won more than we did. “We walked away with 12

awards, but keep in mind that we only had four months of papers to pull entries from. Imagine what

we will do with 12 months’ of papers!” The breakdown went as follows:

four first-place, one second- and seven third-place awards. Chief photographer Mitch Kloorfain was the big winner with three first places and one third. First place: Ad campaign, Mar-

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It’s called Florida Vets Connect, but some are wondering if it’s reaching everyone who asked. When veterans get or renew Florida driv-

er’s licenses or identification cards, they can check a box requesting contact from the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs, and supply an e-mail address. It’s an effort to help veterans get all the benefits they’ve earned. Michael McDaniel, department adju-tant for the American Legion Department of Florida, told the FDVA that he checked that box last June when he renewed his license.“I have yet to be contacted,” he said. McDaniel made his comments at the last

regular meeting for the Florida Veterans Council, Thursday, April 25. In an interview after the meeting, Steve Murray, communi-cations director for the department, said he can’t comment on an incident of a veteran not getting the requested contact. “I can’t speak to any technical glitches or

why (McDaniel) didn’t get it,” Murray said. Vets Connect is a joint effort of the Florida

Department of Highway and Safety Motor Vehicles and the state’s veterans depart-ment. It started in 2010. The FDVA estimates that there are about 1.6 million to 1.7 mil-lion veterans living in the Sunshine State, but less than half are enrolled in the federal Department of Veterans Affairs. Many likely have unclaimed benefits their service earned

them. Among other functions, the state veterans

department has the Agency for Benefits and Assistance. The agency has about 100 veter-ans service officers working mostly at feder-al VA medical facilities. They also train the state’s county veterans service officers. The state and federal departments are sep-

arate. Murray said the email addresses veterans

give are passed along to eWareness, an in-ternet marketing company owned by veter-an Brian K. St. Ours. The company is paid $5,000 a year to send e-mails to the request-ing veterans. In an email follow up to a Vet-eran Voice interview, Murray said that from October to March, eWareness sent 238,513 requested e-mails.However, there are a number of things that

can prevent the one-time contacts, for ex-ample, complicated emails that are easily misspelled. Additionally, Murray said that

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some email providers seem to have sensitive filtering systems that block eWareness’ efforts. Murray said it’s impossible to

know how many emails fail to reach veterans’ inboxes. Addi-tionally, it’s impossible to know how many veterans have re-sponded to the emails by visiting the department’s website, Flor-idaVets.org, or Facebook page, facebook.com/floridaveterans. Nevertheless, Murray said an-

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val. He sees many of the plays registered for the Festival.“It was produced at Hollins and

I saw it there,” he said. “It won an award. I heard another read-ing of it and talked to the play-wright, I said we’d like to work with it and she was thrilled. It worked out well for both of us.” Moberg said that Levy wanted

to write a play about the cama-raderie among a group of wom-en.“She attended Hollins, an all-

girls school,” he said. “It was extremely meaningful and she wanted to write a play that allowed her to encapsulate that experience. While doing her re-search, she came upon the story of these women pilots. It was a way of capturing the feeling (of camaraderie.) The play is historically accurate in terms of detail, although the characters are fictionalized.”The all-female cast includes

Emily Norcia, Kelly Fischer, Mi-chelle Lucey, Shannon Maloney, Lindsey Mercado, Hannah Wil-liams, Marisa Quijano, Jessica Lesko and Gabriella Rojas.Moberg sees a bright future for

the young playwright, who is in the graduate program in play-writing at Hollins. “She’s done a super job,” he

said. “It’s been through 10-12 drafts. It’s just a good show. Her mentor at Hollins runs one of the only Master of Fine Arts programs in playwrighting in the southeastern United States.” This will be the first production

of “Decision Height” outside the Hollins College community and Moberg said that the playwright is happy to have it produced. She is, in fact, expected to at-tend a performance on May 24. The phrase ‘decision height’

refers to the height at which a pilot makes the decision to land the plane or pass and try again. Next week, in an interview with playwright Meredith Dayna Levy, she’ll explore how she chose this subject for her play. “Decision Height” will be

presented by IRSC as part of McAlpin Onstage Summer Shows on May 23-25 at the Wynne Black Box Theare. Performances are May 23-25 at 8 p.m. and May 25 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15. Call the box office at (772)

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season will be a cabaret featur-ing music of contemporary Broad-way, on June 6-8. Dessert will be served during intermission. Tickets are $20.

PILOTS from page 5

The Ambassador of France to the United States, Francois Delat-tre, left, and Florida Department of Veterans Affairs executive direc-tor, Mike Prendergast, right, join World War II veteran James Jernegan, center, at the Historic Old Capitol in Tallahas-see. On Thursday, April 25, the ambassador personally awarded Jernegan and five other Florida World War II vet-erans, with the insignia of Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor for helping to liberate their nation in 1944 to 1945. France has honored more than 1,000 Florida vets with the Legion of Honor insignia in recent years. WWII veterans can find out more about being awarded the insignia by visiting the consulate’s website, consulfrance-miami.org. There’s an application at the site.

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Treasure Coast Hospice will be giving special recognition to all who have served in our armed forces.

Hono‰ Flight - One Last Mission

Tuesday, May 21, 2013Mayes Center for Hope1201 SE Indian St., StuartChoose between two showings:2 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.We are handicap accessible

Admission is free, but space is limited. Reserve your seat nowat tchospice.org/flight or contact: Mayce DelValle (772) 403-1758

You are invited to a community screening of the movie,

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