The legislature is refusing to recognize the secretaries as heads of their departments, and on Wednesday, Republicans defiantly had a committee hearing to vet Cooper's pick to lead the veteran affairs department.
Mr. Cleland, who led the Veterans Administration under President Jimmy Carter, lost both legs and his right arm to a grenade in Vietnam.
The printmaker Jacob Samuel led the veterans on a tour of an exhibition of his work, for example, and the veterans, in turn, invited Mr. Samuel to do prints with them.
And there was Cincinnatus, the Roman who took up dictatorial power, saved Rome, then willingly relinquished it and returned to his plow — an example that led the veterans of America's Revolutionary War to name themselves the Society of Cincinnati.
Ex SAS soldier Ben Griffin, who led the Veterans for Peace protest on Tuesday, told The Independent that although difficult, discarding their medals was an important gesture to discourage future generations from aspiring to win war medals.
That led the veteran golfer Gary Player to wonder aloud last week whether practice time was being shortchanged in the process.
That led the veteran Congress party leader Margaret Alva to comment in jest once that Mr. Kurien must be a male chauvinist to have an ox represent a dairy board.
Such was the case as recently as January 6, when a post on the all-star website noted that Scott "leads the veteran contingent" of Pacific players.
Soon after the election, an exhaustively researched United Nations "mapping exercise" report led the veteran Rwanda expert Filip Reyntjens to state that "there is overwhelming evidence of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity" against Kagame.
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