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Veterans Services

American Legion Post will be hosting this commemorative day at East Point, National Vietnam War Veterans Day service on Friday, March 29th at 11am

2024 American Legion Scholarships Available

Attention Veterans, Students, Parents, and Grandparents – The Nahant American Legion is proud to announce the availability of our 2024 scholarship awards.

$1,000 Scholarship – One Award

$500 Scholarship – Two Awards

(Three total awards)

In addition to our historical eligibility of Nahant High School Seniors, we have expanded the eligibility to include children and grandchildren of current Nahant American Legion and Nahant American Legion Auxiliary Members.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR THIS SCHOLARSHIP:

1. Nahant resident High School Students or Nahant Veterans who have been accepted to an accredited 2 or 4 year college, university, or technical trade school.

2. The child or grandchild of a Nahant Legion or Legion Auxiliary member that may be living elsewhere. (New this year and a thank you to Nahant Legion Members who live in another community).

PLEASE SUBMIT APPLICATION BY FRIDAY, MAY 3rd TO:

Scholarship Committee,

The Nahant American Legion Post 215

P.O. Box 82,

Nahant, MA 01908.

You may email any questions as well as the completed application to: alpost215@gmail.com

Please see application for all details.

PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

Don’t forget to have your students checkout and apply for scholarships from the American Legion national organization! 
https://www.legion.org/scholarships

Gulf War Apnea and Insomnia Relief (GW AIR) Study

‘Millions’ of Veterans Exposed to Environmental Hazards Will Be Eligible for VA Health Care on March 5

***NOTICE FOR NAHANT VETS AND WIDOWS: spam-y thing going around that Veterans are going to be getting a $2,000 stimulus in February of 2024. There isn’t a single mention of this on a reputable website. One of the sites I looked at seem to have one of those pay-day style “why wait, get your money now” things. Probably best to advise your Veterans not to sign up for anything until we get info from a better source, like the IRS!***

Reflections of the Black Military Experience: A Panel Discussion on the Past, Present, and Future of Black Americans in the Military

VA Plans to Expand Agent Orange Disability Benefits to Cover Exposure in a Dozen New States

NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY

PROUD TO BE A PARTNER IN THE HOMELESS AND AT-RISK HOMELESS PROGRAMS VA OFFICE

NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY

MARCH 29, 2024

INCOME ELIGIBILTY FOR WINTER HEATING ASSISTANCE

YOUR NAHANT VETERANS SERVICES DEPARTMENT is HONORED to launch our new NAHANT VETERANS FACEBOOK page

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091920327133&mibextid=LQQJ4d

This new social media outreach vehicle is intended to serve all our Nahant veterans who stepped up and served their country with sacrifice, duty, honor and courage.

We salute you and “THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE”

We hope you will find new and vital information regarding benefits available to veterans, great services and activities for veterans and their families, testimonials of awesome veterans in town, and updates from the Veterans Administration (VA) and our Commonwealth of MA state Executive Office of Veteran Services (EOVS).

You have earned these benefits because you have served. As our Facebook page evolves, we look forward to your ideas on how this vehicle might help all the veterans in our community. We look forward to hearing from you and hope you can pass the word along to other veterans in Town.

As we are proud to claim: ONE TEAM ONE FIGHT

VETERANS DAY 2023 CEREMONY – NAHANT, MA

The recently passed PACT Act expands access to disability compensation for Atomic Veterans who were exposed to ionizing radiation. Don’t delay. Review the qualifications for eligibility and file a claim with your Town VSO Jon Lazar: va.gov/PACT

VA Healthcare Enrollment & ID Cards

Bring your DD214, photo ID, and a smile!

For more information call 781-687-3348 or email vabedoutreach@va.gov

VETERANS MOBILE FOOD MARKET

The Veterans Mobile Food Market is a Farmers Market style distribution of assorted foods for Veterans and their families.

Pre-Registration for first time participants only – All first time participants need to provide verification of Veteran status

Food will be distributed at the Nahant Life Saving Station – No Contact Drive Thru

Upcoming 2024 Dates for Mobile Food Market:

Wednesdays 9:00am – 10:30am

  • January 10th
  • February 7th
  • March 6th
  • April 3rd
  • May 1st
  • June 5th
  • July 10th
  • August 7th
  • September 11th

If you have questions about the Food Market please contact:

Dana Sheehan | (617) 233-8600

Mary Miner: Council on Aging Director | (781) 581-7557

Veterans Census Card and Exemption Forms

Please take a moment to register with us. We have provided the Census Card to help make the process easier. You may download our Veterans Census Card, print it out and mail it to us at the Town Hall.

A Veterans Exemption Form is also available for download. Please visit the Assessor’s page for more information on this Exemption.

Mobile Food Market Distribution Program

A farmer’s market style distribution of assorted foods for Veterans and their families

If you are a veteran, widow or widower, or dependent of a veteran–we invite you to participate!

Sponsored by the Town of Nahant’s Department of Veterans’ Services in partnership with the Greater Boston Food Bank and Bank of America.

Reminder

  • Please call the office before the next date if you are not participating in the next distribution.
  • Everyone who has participated in our program in the past is already registered.
  • No need to fill out paperwork, unless you are new to the program.
  • Please bring reusable cloth grocery bags; our supply is very low.
  • Please keep in mind you are responsible for transporting the food distributed to you.
  • It is strongly encouraged to bring someone to assist you.
  • You are allowed to send a representative to pick-up your food.

Please call Dana Sheehan, Legion Post @ 617-233-8600 if you have any questions.

Our Flag

On Flag Day, June 14, 1923, The American Legion and representatives of 68 other patriotic, fraternal, civic and military organizations met in Washington, DC for the purpose of drafting a code of flag etiquette. The 77th Congress adopted this codification of rules as public law on June 22, 1942. It is Title 4, United States Code Chapter 1. Here are some additional links for interesting information about “Old Glory” from the American Legion.

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