thanks to those who risk their lives every day so that we can live in freedom. today is armed forces day and american tradition since 1960. president truman created the day to honor our brave men and women serve not guilty all five branches of the military. so to the many thousands protecting our shores here at home and serving overseas, we here at fox news channel would like to express our heartfelt thanks tore your service. here, here. more and more those serving in all branches of our military are women. the ranks of female veterans getting bigger as more return home from wars overseas. but going from combat to civilian life can be challenging. veteran affairs department ramping up its efforts to improve the health care for the female vets. casey stegall is live in los angeles. good to see you. what has the v.a. noticed when it comes to female veterans specifically? reporter: rick, they ve uncovered pretty disturbing trends because so manumea family
of this and a little bit of that. doug, when you talk to the sons of confederate veterans, they say, well, look, virginia entered because virginia was invaded and it was people in virginia wanting to defend their homes and their property, but the thing they are glossing over is the fact that a lot of people in virginia thought of their property, thought their slaves were their property. well, exactly. and you know, there is this confederate flag movement. there are other regimental flags to honor family veterans. there was the donny blue flag, for example. the confederate flag has become a symbol of white supremacy, this overembracing of the confederacy. if you read a lot of these neo confederate sites, abraham lincoln is a marxist. the reason it is playing out right now is because there is a large anti-federal government sentiment, a lot of states sentiment going on right now. so it gins up this old argument again. and i think because barack obama had won north carolina and virgi
now they have got it again. alabama, for example, also has a proclamation, but they don t say they do say something about slavery in it. and mississippi, hayley barbour s state, for example they don t say anything in their proclamation about slavery. so it is a sort of a little bit of this and a little bit of that. doug, you talk to the sons of confederate veterans, they say virginia entered because virginia was invadeded and people in virginia wanting to defend their homes and their property, but the thing they are close glosing over is the fact that a lot of people in virginia thought of their property, thought their slaves were their property. well, exactly. and you know, there is this confederate flag movement there were other regimental flags to honor family veterans. there was the donny blue flag, for example. the confederate flag has become a symbol of white supremacy, this overembrace of the confederacy f you read a lot of these theo confederate sites, abraham lincoln is