Reports on Activities of Department of Veterans Affairs To Assist Home- less Veterans Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Service Programs Information To Assist Veterans Receiving Education Benefits Expanded Sharing Between Department of Veterans Affairs and Depart- Provisions from Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996 Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1996 BVA Appeals Regulations and Rules of Practice, 38 C.F.R. Part 19, with NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND DEATHS IN SERVICE DURING ALL • WARS, THE KOREAN CONFLICT PERIOD, AND THE VIETNAM ERA; NUMBER OF LIVING VETERANS, AND VETERANS AND DEPENDENTS ON COMPENSATION AND PENSION ROLLS, JULY 1, 1995 American Revolution (1775–1784) (Union) articipants ...... 290,000 Participants .. 2,213,000 eaths in service....... 4,000 Deaths in service..... 364,000 ast veteran died Apr.5,1869.......Age 109 Last Union veteran died Aug. 2, ast widow died Nov. 11, 1906. ..Age 92 1956 ...... Age 109 ast dependent died Apr. 25, Veterans and Dependents on 1911 .... Age 90 Compensation and Pension Rolls War of 1812 (1812–1815) Surviving spouses 2 articipants .... 287,000 Children 22 eaths in service. 2,000 Spanish-American War (1898–1902) ast veteran died May 13, 1905 .... Age 105 392,000 ast widow died June 28, Deaths in service... 11,000 1936.... Age unknown Last veteran died Sept. 10, 1992 ..... ast dependent died Mar. 12, Age 106 1946 ... Age 89 Veterans and Dependents on Indian Wars (Approx. 1817–1898) Compensation and Pension Rolls 'articipants ..... 106,000 1,131 Children ... 425 leaths in service........... 1,000 ast veteran died June 18, World War I (1917-1918) .... Age 101 4,744,000 Veterans and Dependents on Deaths in service....... 116,000 Compensation and Pension Rolls Living veterans .. 13,000 urviving spouses ..... 3 Veterans and Dependents on Children 2 Compensation and Pension Rolls Mexican War (1846–1848) Parents .... 4 'articipants ..... 79,000 78,909 Children leaths in service........... 13,000 8,295 Veterans ..... ast veteran died Sept. 3, 2,838 1929... Age 98 World War II (Sept. 16, 1940-July 25, ast widow died June. 20, 1947) ....... Age 89 : 16,535,000 ast dependent died Nov. 1, Deaths in service.. 406,000 1962 ...... ...... Age 94 6c7,433,000 Veterans and Dependents on Veterans and Dependents on Compensation and Pension Rolls Compensation and Pension Rolls jurviving spouses. 475 6,019 Children. 28 327,885 Veterans 29 22,128 Civil War (1861–1865) Veterans 960,910 (Confederate) Korean Conflict (June 27, 1950-Jan. Participants ..... *1,000,000 31, 1955) Deaths in service.. *133,821 Participants .. 206,807,000 Last Confederate veteran died Deaths in service.. 55,000 Mar. 16, 1958. ..... Age 112 Living veterans .. bcei 4,499,000 (ix) X NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND DEATHS IN SERVICE DURING ALL WARS, THE KOREAN CONFLICT PERIOD, AND THE VIETNAM ERA; NUMBER OF LIVING VETERANS, AND VETERANS AND DEPENDENTS ON COMPENSATION AND PENSION ROLLS, JULY 1, 1996—Continued Veterans and Dependents on Compensation and Pension Rolls Parents ..... 3,782 Surviving spouses 71,616 Children 5,317 Veterans.. 290,380 Vietnam Era (Aug. 5, 1964-May 7, 1975) Participants ...... 19,200,000 Deaths in service...... 109,000 Living veterans... ..... behi8,273,000 Veterans and Dependents on Compensation and Pension Rolls Parents ...... 9,425 Surviving spouses 90,683 Children 18,807 Veterans.. 766,393 Persian Gulf War (Aug. 2, 1990-date) Participants..... Living veterans..... ........ hi 1,450,000 Veterans and Dependents on Compensation and Pension Rolls Parents ....... 263 Surviving spouses 2,636 Children 4,103 Veterans... 134,376 America's War Totals Through July 1, 1995 Participants** 141,746,000 Deaths in service.... 81,087,526 Living war veterans.. 20,169,000 Living ex-servicemembers.... 26,198,000 Total Veterans and Dependents on Compensation and Pension Rolls Parents 123,406 Surviving spouses. 1612,743 Children. m 13,700,000 Deaths in service........ 86,526 * 70,501 Veterans 12,668,576 Living veterans does not include World War I veterans with military service in other eras. ** Persons who served in more than one war period are counted only once. *Authoritative statistics for Confederate forces not available. Estimated 28,000 Confederate personnel died in Union prisons. * Children connotes a minor or a helpless adult. Includes 513,644 peacetime veterans with service between January 31, 1955, and August 5, 1964; peacetime veterans with service beginning after May 7, 1975, and all other peacetime periods; 5 World War I Retired Emergency Officers and 1 Peacetime Special Act. * Includes 11,374 children of deceased peacetime veterans. NOTE: Figures on the number of living veterans reflect final 1990 Census data and include only veterans living in the U.S. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. Table I is a recodification table representing the changes to the title 38 ection numbers which have been made with the enactment of Public Law Nos. 102-40, 102–83, and 102-568. The new section numbers are shown in the left side and the former numbers are on the right side of the table. che section numbers in chapter 1 were not changed by these laws and are ot referred to in these tables. Table II shows in numerical order the former title 38 section numbers and vhere they can be found in the new title 38. 513 501(a). .210(c)(1) .223(a) .223(c) ..211(b) .21066X1), (2) .211(a) ..212 515(a) ..213 .224 .236 .216 .217 .220 .215 .219 .214 .221 .222 (xi) CHAPTER 9-SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ON PROPERTY UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT 901 902 903 .218(a) ..218(b) .218(c) 904 905. .218(d) ..218(e) PART II-GENERAL BENEFITS CHAPTER 11-COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY OR DEATH 1101 1102 1110 1111 1112 1113 1114 1115 1116 1121 1122 1131 1132 1133 1134 1135 .301 .302 .310 311 .312 .313 314 .315 .316 321 .322 .331 332 .333 334 .335 1137 1141 1142 1151 1152 1153 1154 1155 1157 1158 1159 1160 1161 1162 1163 .337 .341 342 .351 .352 .353 354 .355 .357 .358 .359 .360 .361 362 .363 CHAPTER 13—DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE CONNECTED DEATHS 1315 1316 ...... 1301 ..401 1317 415 CHAPTER 15-PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY OR DEATH OR FOR SERVICE 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506 501 .502 ..503 504 .505 .506 1507 1508 1511 1512 1521 1522 .507 .S08 .511 .512 .521 .522 |