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RE: Introducing the Veterans Project
This is a great way to start sub-communities and to involve people at Steemit having mutual interests and may not be that well connected with modern technologies.
Questions:
- how can vetrans from none north america countries participate and qualify?
- are people who served the military under a countries mandatory program - in countries that have those rules - also qualify?
We need someone reliable from each country to help assess whether the individual is indeed a veteran. The verification process will need to be fleshed out.
Those who served via draft qualify but once again, proving service is required. We don't accept draft dodgers.
Military Draft: Under this description I qualify as veteran; Done some simple training with one of our military forces and worked as a researcher for a year as part of the military draft program we had until late 90s. Doesn't really feel like I was in the military at all though :)
Countries: Understood; although I know one or two people in our military, they are not yet on Steemit. We may have some databases that can be used, but not used if they are only from sometime longer ago in history or also up to recent times. Will check this out sometime in the future.
EDIT: through a form it is possible to request information on military situation of any Dutch persoon, this can be requested by the person itself, as well for some other person (with an ok of that person). Is this similar in Canada and the USA?
FYI: the link to the persoons archive at our Defence department here and to the form here.