1.   A Senate panel agreed Thursday to allow veterans to receive Medicare coverage at eight Department of Veterans Affairs facilities beginning next year.

2.   In addition to free medical care, many veterans receive monthly benefit checks.

3.   In some cases, veterans also can receive additional compensation for dependent parents.

4.   Nineteen veterans have received the honor twice.

5.   Scorned as mercenaries or amoral adventurers, Canadian Vietnam veterans have received almost no recognition from the United States and scant respect from their countrymen.

6.   She says veterans will always receive a special welcome at the Edison.

7.   So Congress passed a law saying that veterans could only receive disability pay if they received no other compensation from the military, including their retirement pensions.

8.   The Defense Department has long opposed changing the law to allow veterans to receive both retirement and disability pay.

9.   To qualify for VA care, a veteran must have received a service-related injury or meet low-income guidelines.

10.   Ustashe veterans receive larger pensions than old Partisan fighters, who waged a savage fight against the German and Croatian fascist armies.