30.                    Vet Says Airline Kicked His Service Dog, Insulted Him.  KOAT-TV "One New Mexico disabled veteran said his service dog was kicked" by airline employees and he was "called a slur." Paws and Stripes Founder Jim Staneck said that in the "course of 48 hours at Dulles Airport," his service dog Sarge was "kicked twice by United Airlines works - once at the ticket counter and then on a shuttle." Staneck, who served "three combat tours in Iraq," said he was trying to deal with a "canceled flight and delays," and the "stress was overwhelming." When Staneck asked a customer service representative for help with "reading a reservation email," the representative said, "'What are you retarded?' Staneck recalls. 'Prior to this I told him I have a brain injury and PTSD, I'm a disabled vet.'"

31.                    VFW Directed To Remove Flags From Overpasses.  AP

32.                    Slideshow: Wounded Warriors Receive Applause, Respect.  WDRB-TV

33.                    Volunteers Build A Home For A Wounded Soldier.  KOLO-TV

34.                    Seven Medal Recipients To Be Featured On The Bus Wrap.  Winter Haven (FL) News Chief

35.                    VA / VSO-MSO Hearings as July 23, 2012:

            July 25, 2012.  The House Committee on Veterans Affairs and the House Armed Services Committee will hold a joint hearing titled “Back from the Battlefield: DOD and VA Collaboration to Assist Service Members Returning to Civilian Life.  10:00 AM; 2118 Rayburn HOB

 July 31, 2012.   The House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing on VA’s prosthetics procurement reforms.  10:00AM; 334 Cannon HOB

 August 2, 2012. HVAC, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a joint hearing entitled “Odyssey of the CVE (Center for Veterans Enterprise).”  10:00 A.M.; 334 Cannon

 Today in History:

• 1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
• 1793 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
• 1821 – While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle and massacred nearly 3000 Turkish inhabitants.
• 1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
• 1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
• 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinatedArchduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
• 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
• 1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of theSoviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
• 1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
• 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
• 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
• 1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
• 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
• 1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
• 1967 – 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
• 1968 – Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and theCleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
• 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod,Israel.
• 1970 – Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
• 1972 – The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.
• 1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
• 1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouringTamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
• 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
• 1986 – In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
• 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
• 1995 – Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
• 1997 – Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
• 1999 – Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
• 1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
• 2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.