24.Disabled Vets Cycle Through McKeesport On Cross-Country Ride. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review  "17 other disabled veterans are...crossing the United States on bicycle as part of the Sea to Shining Sea tour. On Wednesday, the tour passed through McKeesport where riders got a welcoming salute from local leaders, public safety officials and others." One of the riders on the tour is 63-year-old Vietnam vet Bill Czyzewski, "whose machine allows him to pedal his bike with his arms." Czyzewski "said he was able to obtain his specialized bicycle through the Veterans Administration."

 25.Hard-To-Reach Vets May Now Be Cared For By Out-Of-State Doctors Through Telemedicine.  HealthTechZone

26.Kiss Wants To Rock And Roll All Night And Honor Every Vet.  Washington Times

 27.Library Of Congress Lets Every Veteran's Story Live On.  Tampa Bay (FL) Times

 28.Descendants Hail Volunteer Efforts To Preserve Ancestors' Region Civil War Headstones.  Munsert (IN) Times

29.Home Depot Boosts Repair Program For Veterans.  Atlanta Business Chronicle

 30.VA / VSO-MSO Hearings as July 21, 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

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:

• 1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
• 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
• 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
• 1914 – The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I
• 1918 – U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
• 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
• 1944 – World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
• 1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
• 1959 – Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
• 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
• 1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11mission (July 20 in North America).
• 1972 – Bloody Friday bombings by the Provisional IRA around Belfast, Northern Ireland – 22 bombs are detonated, killing 9 and seriously injuring 130.
• 1973 – In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
• 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
• 1977 – The start of the four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
• 1983 – The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
• 1995 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
• 2005 – Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
• 2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.