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	Encyclopedia: Old soldiers' home
		An old soldiers' home is a veteran's hospital or an institution devoted to the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers, sailors and marines, etc.
		The old soldiers' home system was eventually replaced with the Veterans Administration which later became the Department of Veterans Affairs.
		It was not unusual for old soldiers to live out their old age and die under the institutional care of the home, including at the Soldiers' Home in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Old-soldiers%27-home (1054 words)

	Mythical Roots of US Drug Policy - Soldier's Disease and Addicts in the Civil War
		Soldier's Disease is the only tale of a pre-Harrison Act opiate problem which a self-respecting scholar in recent years could point to as a pre-1914 social problem due to opiates.
		Maimed and shattered survivors from a hundred battlefields, diseased and disabled soldiers released from hostile prisons, anguished and hopeless wives and mothers made so by the slaughter of those who were dearest to them, have found, many of them, temporary relief from their sufferings in Opium.
		In arguing that the importance of Soldier's Disease should not be discounted, Courtwright stresses the importance on later 19th Century addiction of the wrenching impact that War had on society as a whole, such as the loss of loved ones, property, fortunes and social position.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/history/soldis.htm (9471 words)

	Historic Preservation - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1900 admission was extended to all honorably discharged officers, soldiers and sailors who served in regular or volunteer forces of the United States in any war in which the country had been engaged and who were disabled, who had no adequate means of support and were incapable of earning a living.
		It had truly become an old soldiers final resting place, publicly criticized for poor management, bad food, favoritism for the officers over the needs of the members and a lack of concern for the human needs of its charges.
		The Home continued briefly to maintain a distinct identity as the Home Service of the VA. But the construction of new home or domiciliary facilities by the VA, a uniform admissions policy for all VA facilities and the passage of "The Boys in Blue" brought the inevitable final chapter to a close.
	www.va.gov /facmgt/historic/NHDVS.asp (1906 words)

	About the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home
		The Home opened on January 1, 1885, and it was located in the corner of Grove Ave.
		The home was under the Dept. of Public Welfare until it closed in 1941, upon the death of the last resident.
		The "Application for admission to the Soldiers' Home of R. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans at Richmond, Virginia," lists the Board of Visitors, and requests When enlisted, with rank, Where enlisted, Company and regiment, Date and place of discharge and Cause of discharge.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwehave/mil/campabout.htm (768 words)

	A Nation Repays Its Debt: The National Soldiers' Home and Cemetery in Dayton, OH
		Beyond the gentle hills and headstones and over the horizon, you might glimpse a large old brick soldiers' home building which was built to house disabled Union veterans from the Civil War.
		THE OFFICERS Of the Home are sick or disabled soldiers of the late war.
		The cemetery and soldiers' home are part of the Central Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/115dayton/115dayton.htm (488 words)

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		The Soldiers' Home was established in 1851, as an "asylum for old and disabled veterans." Four of the original buildings still stand and are listed as national historic landmarks.
		Historic Anderson Cottage was constructed in 1842-43 as the home of George W. Riggs, who went on to establish the famous Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C. In 1851, the cottage and farm land surrounding it was purchased by the government to form the core of what is today the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home.
		This building also was the home's first hospital and guest house and is where the women were housed when they were first admitted to the Home in 1954.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/heroes/history1.html (928 words)

	United Daughters of the Confederacy Home Page
		She also nursed and cared for wounded soldiers that were brought to her home until they could be moved to a hospital.
		Realizing the South's everlasting debt of gratitude to the "Confederate Veteran," she persevered until the first old soldiers home was established in Nashville, followed by hundreds of others throughout the country, where care and comfort were provided for the helpless.
		In 1890, "The Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers' Home" was organized in Tennessee and Mrs.
	www.hqudc.org /about/founder.html (1560 words)

	Confederate veterans' home razed in '30s - Wednesday, 11/13/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He lived at the ''Old Soldiers Home'' which I think was near the Donelson cemetery where he was buried.
		The last section of the 1891 home was demolished in 1953, after serving for a while as an apartment residence for Hermitage employees, including ''farm hands.'' Its bricks became part of the Hermitage gift shop, built in 1954 and now part of the education building.
		Many of the home's veterans were buried in a cemetery on the Hermitage grounds at the former Presbyterian Church there, built in 1824 on land donated for a church by Jackson himself.
	www.tennessean.com /learn-nashville/archives/03/10/25214359.shtml (778 words)

	National Park Service - The Presidents ("Corn Rigs," or Anderson House)
		Known at various times as the United States Military Asylum and "Old Soldiers' Home" but officially designated today as the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, the institution is primarily of importance as the only retirement domicile in the Nation for Regular Army and Air Force enlisted personnel, warrant officers, and disabled soldiers and airmen.
		The soldiers' home opened on December 24, 1851, in a building on 17th Street NW., while the board of commissioners considered sites for a permanent location.
		When Anderson House was vacant during the summer of 1866, the hospital of the soldiers' home was relocated there until the spring of 1876, when the Barnes Building, which houses the present hospital, was occupied.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/presidents/site3.htm (742 words)

	JS Online: Group hopes to restore sparkle of VA chapel
		The towers, chapel and cemetery are all part of the Old Soldiers' Home Historic District on the grounds of the Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 5000 W. National Ave.
		In 1867, 36 soldiers moved onto the grounds that now make up the historic district, and in 1869 they moved into "Old Main," the towers of which can be seen from the interstate.
		Intended as a facility where sick and disabled soldiers could receive care, the area was at one time home to nearly 3,000 veterans.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/gen/may02/46816.asp?format=print (893 words)

	WUSA - Print Story
		The Home needs money to care for the elderly and ill, and is looking to private development as an economic answer.
		Green and serene, the fenced grounds of the old soldiers home were Abraham Lincoln's weekend escape, the place he wrote the emancipation proclamation.
		But it is the vision home administrators and developers share opening up nearly half the property the dark areas, to office buildings, retail stores and new homes, the long term leases helping to pay for services tendered to the men and women who served in the military.
	www.wusatv9.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=40375 (347 words)

	Manteno Veteran's Home
		While we watch the plethora of war movies on TV or in the theater, the reality of just what war is hits home when you stand next to one of the remaining funs used to defend our country during the Great War.
		A favorite of many of the members is old movies which are shown when the chapel channel is not in use.
		He said that in his opinion it was a good thing that they take dilapidated old facilities such as this was and turn them into something good, something useful.
	www.chiefengineer.org /content/content_display.cfm/seqnumber_content/1410.htm (2596 words)

	"John Gibbon: The Man and the Monument" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After a short visit home, Gibbon was back with the army by the end of the month and in pursuit of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, which had crossed into Maryland.
		A desecrated MOLLUS monument in Philadelphia's Mount Moriah cemetery stood in the plot for the Old Soldiers Home.
		The volume was a listing of men at the Old Soldiers Home, but also contained a woodcut of the completed monument, which had been erected in one place during the early 1880s and later moved to the cemetery.
	www.gdg.org /Discussions/wright.html (5096 words)

	GALLIPOLLI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The funeral procession was lead by a horse with a pair of riding boots strapped backwards into the saddle, a century old tradition to mark the passing of a Light Horseman.
		Eric Abrahams died in the Pinjara RSL Nursing Home in Brisbane on the 20th March 2003 at the age of 104.
		Soldier who was in hospital with my Father Tom Tompson in England after the evacuation of Gallipoli, kept the following notes of their escape from the disaster they had been thrown into.
	home.primus.com.au /clemtomo/lestweforget.htm (4168 words)

	Mountain Creek Community/Old Soldiers Home, Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Soldier's Home post office was opened in 1905 but was then closed a year later.
		This is the entrance to the Confederate Memorial Park/Old Soldier's Home in Mountain Creek and one of two cemeteries cared for by the park.
		He donated the land for the Confederate Soldier's Home and was buried at Mt. Zion Church in Marbury, but was re-interred to this cemetery.
	home.earthlink.net /~wareaglerebel/mtcreek.html (463 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Hamilton: In The Time Of The War On Terrorism, It's Also Time To Rethink How We Treat Our Veterans, As ...
		Meanwhile, soldiers still remain in Afghanistan, and may well be deployed elsewhere in the ongoing war on terrorism.
		For example, the Old Soldiers and Airmen's Home in Washington, DC, a nursing home for retired vets, has faced financial difficulties for years.
		The future of the Old Soldiers Home is thus in the hands of Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, who reportedly have not yet ruled on this issue.
	writ.corporate.findlaw.com /hamilton/20021205.html (1394 words)

	President's Remarks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He spent a quarter of his presidency at this cottage, he called the Soldiers' Home.
		We come to understand our heroes not only through their words and deeds, but by their homes, the quiet places they created for themselves and their families.
		The new steps I announced today, along with the new funds, will help to ensure that the Soldiers' Home is restored to the way it looked when the Lincolns lived here.
	clinton4.nara.gov /textonly/CEQ/soldiers_home.html (2101 words)

	Association of the United States Army: ‘Special Place for Special People’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The home, affectionately referred to as the “Old Soldiers’ Home” is nestled in the heart of our nation’s capital.
		AUSA is sponsoring a tour of the home during this year’s Annual Meeting and Exposition for the outstanding soldiers and NCOs.
		The uniform for this event is Class A. In 1851, Congress established a “Soldiers’ Home” for Army veterans on 320 acres of land in northwest Washington.
	www.ausa.org /webpub/deptncostuff.nsf/byid/KCAT-6G2KCP (850 words)

	The Old Soldiers' Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE, THEY JUST FADE AWAY TO THE OLD SOLDIERS' HOME TO SHARE MEMORIES OF THEIR ROLE IN RESHAPING THE WORLD.
		The Old Soldiers' Home continues to be one of the largest Web Sites on the internet.
		It consists of 107 pages dedicated to the memory of a group of young men who, for nine years, were entrusted with the defense of the most beautiful city in the world.
	www.beyondthebluehorizon.com /theoldsoldiershome (488 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Blake Pontchartrain™ 12 09 03
		The new Confederate Soldiers' Home -- named Camp Nicholls -- was dedicated on May 16, 1884.
		It wasn't until many years later, in 1882, that the 1866 Act was amended and a reorganized Board of Commissioners was able to buy the tract of land on Bayou St. John with the explicit purpose of building the new home for the old soldiers.
		The widow of General T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson had herself made a Louisiana flag for the home, and her daughter Miss Julia Jackson raised the flag to the top of a 70-foot flagpole while the big brass Washington Artillery howitzer "Redemption" fired a 13-round salute.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2003-12-09/blake.html (674 words)

	Old Guard campaigners welcomed home [Soldiers back from Horn of Africa] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The weather was cold in December when The Old Guard's Bravo Company -- Team Battlehard -- left Fort Myer for duty in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
		Djibouti is a small, impoverished country in the horn of Africa, formerly known as the Territory of the Afars and Issas.
		Bravo Company Soldiers file from the bus and head for their barracks after their seven-month deployment in Djibouti.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1183635/posts (851 words)

	Michigan Veterans' Facility / Michigan Old Soldiers' Home at Grand Rapids
		Michigan Veterans Homes by Bruce R. Baker, Fiscal Analyst May 1997 is a web page from the Michigan State Government which includes information about the homes' origins, histories, a map of the grounds of the Grand Rapids Home and much more.
		If your veteran died in the 1880s, it is possible he is listed in the Deaths of Inmates of the Michigan Old Soldiers' Home from the 1891 Baxter history.
		All of the D.A.R. gravestone readings of the Soldiers' Home Cemetery from the 1930s have been transcribed by Karen Blumenshine.
	www.rootsweb.com /%7Emikent/veterans (404 words)

	Old soldiers never die - PittsburghLIVE.com
		He became known as the "old soldier" in the Fairfield Township village of Lockport, initially working at the local brickyard and finally breathing his last in 1906, at age 70.
		A stone "soldier" was erected in Central Park about a century earlier by local members of the Grand Army of the Republic, a group formed by actual veterans of the war.
		Another old stone statue, this one at Westmont's Grandview Cemetery, has gained a revived appearance thanks to the Sons of Union Veterans.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_338334.html (2817 words)

	COPPER BEECH TREE PROJECTS
		The wood used in them is from the Copper Beech tree that was located on the grounds of the Old Soldiers Home in Washington D.C. The tree was located across the road from the cottage that President Abraham Lincoln used during summers while he was in office.
		Lincoln Cottage President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument The National Trust, in cooperation with the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, leads the effort to restore and develop the President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument in northwest Washington, DC.
		The Soldiers' Home was a sanctuary where Lincoln spent time with his family, played with his son Tad, and read Shakespeare, the Bible and other books to relieve the fierce pressures of leading our nation through its bloodiest conflict ever.
	www.awwg.org /copper_beech_tree_projects.htm (374 words)

	Old soldiers take sad look at Iraq - The Clarion-Ledger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the minds of soldiers, old wars and new wars sometimes merge.
		Soldiers like Bollinger who've faced enemy fire and seen the ravages of war aren't as quick to send young men and women into that crucible.
		It's a hard-gained wisdom, one that many soldiers who are in Iraq today will ponder long and hard down the corridors of veterans homes in the decades to come.
	www.clarionledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041107/OPINION/411070307/1200 (682 words)

	Treasure - LOST TREASURE OnLine - Treasure Tales By State - Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the early days of the Civil War, around 1861 or 1862, a considerable treasure (mostly of gold) was buried by a Minnesota settler either on or near the grounds of the present Minnesota Old Soldiers' Home.
		In a deathbed statement to a friend, the old settler revealed the story of his buried treasure, but apparently was not too certain of its exact location.
		The determined treasure hunter was issued a permit and set about excavating on the grounds of the Old Soldiers' Home, but he discovered nothing.
	www.losttreasure.com /statetales/taleMN.cfm (407 words)

	June, 2005 BugWing Travelogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After the bike was loaded we continued to the Fort Dodge Old Soldiers Home, and, since we were running much later than what my watch caused initially, we went straight to the Old Soldiers Home, instead of going to eat as we had planned.
		I wanted one more photo of the R100 with the fairing on it since I've had plans floating around in my head for it to be transformed somewhat by removing the fairing and back rest, and putting the European handlebars back on it, before doing even more than that.
		When we left the Old Soldiers Home we headed for the truck stop restaurant in Dodge City where I had the biggest "half" chef salad I've ever seen, and some others had some pretty big portions of whatever it was they ordered, too.
	www.bugwing.com /june2005.htm (605 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Retirement Home Gets First Active Duty Director Since 1885 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"When you think of The Old Soldiers' Home as a child, and even as an adult, you think about people who aren't able to take care of themselves mentally, physically or emotionally," said Smith, the former deputy director of human resources policy for the Army's top personnel office at the Pentagon.
		He pointed out that both retirement homes are relaxing and secure, independent-living facilities with affordable medical care for future and long-term needs, on-campus clinical and dental services, including eye exams and prescriptions.
		Enhancing the quality of life of all the people who live, work and play at the retirement home is his most important goal, he said.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Aug2002/n08122002_200208121.html (1496 words)

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