Disabled American Veterans of the World War

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found: Wikipedia website, viewed April 20, 2018:Disabled American Veterans page (an organization chartered by the United States Congress for disabled military veterans of the United States Armed Forces that helps them and their families through various means; it currently has nearly 1.3 million members; in the aftermath of World War I, disabled veterans in the United States found themselves seriously disadvantaged, with little governmental support; the idea to form the Disabled American Veterans arose at a Christmas party in 1920 hosted by Cincinnati Superior Court Judge Robert Marx, a U.S. Army Captain and War World I veteran who had been injured in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in November 1918; founded on September 25, 1921 as the Disabled American Veterans of the World War (DAVWW) at its first National Caucus, in Hamilton County Memorial Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio; Marx was appointed the first national commander; the demands of World War II required the urgent expansion of the organization, which officially changed its name to Disabled American Veterans (DAV); on Veterans Day 1966, the DAV moved its headquarters to Cold Spring, Kentucky)

notfound: Disabled American Veterans. Department of New York. Proceedings of the ... June 1942: title page (Disabled American Veterans)