{"id":17185,"date":"2023-08-01T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=17185"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:27:31","slug":"wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial recibe beneficios bien merecidos con la ayuda de Jeff Merkley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harley Fitzhugh de Echo, Oreg\u00f3n, perdi\u00f3 la audici\u00f3n en la Campa\u00f1a del Pac\u00edfico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero el Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos le hab\u00eda negado beneficios por discapacidad y compensaci\u00f3n durante a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los veteranos arriesgan sus vidas por su pa\u00eds, y Jeff Merkley cree que cuando nuestros veteranos nos defienden en el extranjero, tenemos que defenderlos aqu\u00ed en casa. Cuando la hija de Harley, Penny Gavette, busc\u00f3 ayuda para que su padre obtuviera los beneficios que se merec\u00eda, la oficina de Jeff respondi\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El personal de Jeff ayud\u00f3 a Penny a apelar la decisi\u00f3n y, finalmente, el Sr. Fitzhugh recibi\u00f3 una calificaci\u00f3n de discapacidad del 90 por ciento por p\u00e9rdida auditiva, as\u00ed como una calificaci\u00f3n del 100 por ciento por trastorno de estr\u00e9s postraum\u00e1tico. Adem\u00e1s de eso, recibi\u00f3 una compensaci\u00f3n por salarios atrasados. Esto fue un gran alivio para el Sr. Fitzhugh y su familia, quienes hab\u00edan sido rechazados durante a\u00f1os y finalmente estaban recibiendo los beneficios y servicios que se merec\u00edan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La familia est\u00e1 profundamente agradecida con Jeff y su personal por su ayuda y amabilidad. Sin ellos, el Sr. Fitzhugh y su familia a\u00fan podr\u00edan estar esperando una determinaci\u00f3n de beneficios.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harley Fitzhugh from Echo, Oregon lost his hearing in the Pacific Campaign during World War II, but had been denied disability and compensation benefits for years by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans risk their lives for their country, and Jeff Merkley believes that when our veterans stand up for us overseas, we\u2019ve got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oregon-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harley Fitzhugh from Echo, Oregon lost his hearing in the Pacific Campaign during World War II, but had been denied disability and compensation benefits for years by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans risk their lives for their country, and Jeff Merkley believes that when our veterans stand up for us overseas, we\u2019ve got to [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-01T18:27:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-01T18:27:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"45pressadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"45pressadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"45pressadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/4544d117a7a2d155129cd629728ee6c7\"},\"headline\":\"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-01T18:27:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-01T18:27:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/\"},\"wordCount\":192,\"articleSection\":[\"Oregon Stories\"],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/\",\"name\":\"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley - Merkley\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-01T18:27:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-01T18:27:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/4544d117a7a2d155129cd629728ee6c7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\",\"name\":\"Merkley\",\"description\":\"Merkley\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/4544d117a7a2d155129cd629728ee6c7\",\"name\":\"45pressadmin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cfd648db6615317e17ba5ef027361388db6de5fd7a5e579dad742a66e31c06f2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cfd648db6615317e17ba5ef027361388db6de5fd7a5e579dad742a66e31c06f2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cfd648db6615317e17ba5ef027361388db6de5fd7a5e579dad742a66e31c06f2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"45pressadmin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/45pressadmin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley - Merkley","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/","og_locale":"es_MX","og_type":"article","og_title":"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley - Merkley","og_description":"Harley Fitzhugh from Echo, Oregon lost his hearing in the Pacific Campaign during World War II, but had been denied disability and compensation benefits for years by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans risk their lives for their country, and Jeff Merkley believes that when our veterans stand up for us overseas, we\u2019ve got to [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/","og_site_name":"Merkley","article_published_time":"2023-08-01T18:27:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-01T18:27:31+00:00","author":"45pressadmin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"45pressadmin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/"},"author":{"name":"45pressadmin","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/4544d117a7a2d155129cd629728ee6c7"},"headline":"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley","datePublished":"2023-08-01T18:27:29+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-01T18:27:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/"},"wordCount":192,"articleSection":["Oregon Stories"],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/","name":"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley - Merkley","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-08-01T18:27:29+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-01T18:27:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/4544d117a7a2d155129cd629728ee6c7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es-MX","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wwii-veteran-receives-well-deserved-benefits-with-help-from-jeff-merkley\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"WWII Veteran Receives Well-Deserved Benefits with Help from Jeff Merkley"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/","name":"merkley","description":"merkley","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#\/schema\/person\/4544d117a7a2d155129cd629728ee6c7","name":"45pressadmin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es-MX","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cfd648db6615317e17ba5ef027361388db6de5fd7a5e579dad742a66e31c06f2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cfd648db6615317e17ba5ef027361388db6de5fd7a5e579dad742a66e31c06f2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cfd648db6615317e17ba5ef027361388db6de5fd7a5e579dad742a66e31c06f2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"45pressadmin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/45pressadmin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17186,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions\/17186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}