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U.S.
Senator Sherrod Brown
Standing
Up for Southwest Ohio Veterans
Sen.
Brown meets with Doolittle Raider Lt. Col. Richard Cole and Brian
Anderson, the Sergeant at Arms for the Doolittle Raiders Association,
in Washington D.C.
Sen.
Brown, the first Ohioan to serve a full term on the Senate Veterans’
Affairs Committee, is working to ensure that our veterans receive the
care and support owed to them by a grateful nation.
Veterans
deserve the highest quality of care possible and a VA that works as a
partner in achieving better health. Sen. Brown voted in support of
bipartisan legislation authored by Sens. Bernie Sanders and John
McCain to help restore accountability among senior executives at the
Veterans Administration while ensuring that the VA has the resources
necessary to hire new doctors and nurses to address shortages
throughout the system. These changes will provide veterans with the
care they deserve. Sen. Brown will continue to work with his
colleagues in Washington and Ohio to reduce the VA disability claims
backlog and ensure that our veterans are treated properly.
Earlier
this year, Sen. Brown also honored veterans of previous wars. In the
first offensive action by the U.S. military following the attack on
Pearl Harbor, 80 men who became known as the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders
volunteered for an for an “extremely hazardous mission” without
knowing the target, location, or assignment. Led by Lieutenant
Colonel James Doolittle, the Raiders launched 650 miles from their
target. After hitting their military and industrial targets in Japan,
they were low on fuel and facing deteriorating weather. As a result,
all 16 airplanes were forced to crash-land in China or Russia.
In
May, Sen. Brown joined President Obama as he signed into law
bipartisan legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the
Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Sen. Brown was the original author of the
Senate-passed legislation and led the effort with Sen. Boozman of
Arkansas to obtain 78 bipartisan Senate cosponsors. The legislation
followed a Senate Resolution introduced by Sen. Brown in 2012
honoring the 70th anniversary of the mission.
Sen.
Brown met with one of the four living Doolittle Raiders, Ohio native
Lieutenant Colonel Richard E. Cole. Lt. Col. Cole served as copilot
for Lt. Col. James Doolittle during his heroic flight over Japan
during the Second World War.
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