An old soldiers' home is a

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retirement home A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home, old folks' home, or old age home, although ''old people's home'' can also refer to a nursing home – or rest home, is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly. Ty ...

nursing home A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms ...

, or

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, or sometimes an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom the Royal Hospital Chelsea was established by King Charles II in 1682 as a retreat for veterans.Guidebook, p. 3 The provision of a hostel rather than the payment of pensions was inspired by in Paris. The Royal Hospital Chelsea, often called simply Chelsea Hospital, is a

and

for some 300 veterans of the

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. It is a 66-acre site located on

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. It is an independent charity and relies partly upon donations to cover day-to-day running costs to provide care and accommodation for veterans. Any man or woman who is over the age of 65 and served as a regular soldier may apply to become a

Chelsea Pensioner A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, an Old soldiers' home, Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, London. The Royal Hospital Chelsea ...

(i.e. a resident), on the basis they have found themselves in a time of need and are "of good character". They must not, however, have any dependent spouse or family and former Officers must have served at least 12 years in the ranks before receiving a commission. The site for the Royal Hospital was an area of Chelsea which held an incomplete building "Chelsey College", a theological college

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founded in 1609. The Royal Hospital opened its doors to the

Chelsea Pensioners A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, an Old soldiers' home, Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, London. The Royal Hospital Chelsea ...

in 1692 for "the relief and succour" of veterans. Some of the first soldiers admitted included those injured at the

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. The hospital maintains a 'military-based culture which puts a premium on comradeship'. The in-pensioners are formed into three companies, each headed by a Captain of Invalids (an ex-Army officer responsible for the 'day to day welfare, management and administration' of the pensioners under his charge). There is also a Secretary who traditionally was responsible for paying the Army pensions, but today they look after the annual budget, staff, buildings and grounds. Further senior staff include the Physician & Surgeon, the Matron, the Quartermaster, the Chaplain and the Adjutant. A Board of Commissioners has governed the Royal Hospital since 1702. The ex-officio chairman of the board is HM Paymaster General (whose predecessor Sir Stephen Fox was instrumental in founding the Hospital in the seventeenth century). The purpose of the Board is 'to guide the development of The Royal Hospital, ensuring the care and well-being of the Chelsea Pensioners who live there and safeguarding the historic buildings and grounds, which it owns in trust'. Royal Hospital is also a ward of the Kensington and Chelsea Council. The population at the 2011 Census was 7,252. Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired

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s of the

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, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings were later used by the

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and the

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, and are now known as the

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. The word "hospital" was used in its original sense of a place providing hospitality for those in need of it, and did not refer to medical care, although the buildings included an infirmary which, after Greenwich Hospital closed, operated as Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital until 1986. The foundation which operated the hospital still exists, for the benefit of former Royal Navy personnel and their dependents. It now provides sheltered housing on other sites. The hospital was created as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich on the instructions of

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, who had been inspired by the sight of wounded sailors returning from the

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in 1692. She ordered the King Charles wing of the palace—originally designed by architect John Webb for King Charles II in 1664—to be remodelled as a naval hospital to provide a counterpart for the

Chelsea Hospital The Royal Hospital Chelsea is an Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army. Founded as an almshouse — the ancient sense of the word "hospital" — by King Charles II in 1682, it is a site ...

for soldiers. Sir

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and his assistant

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gave their services free of charge as architects of the new Royal Hospital. Sir

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succeeded Wren as architect, completing the complex to Wren's original plans. Construction was financed through an endowment, financed through the transfer of £19,500 in fines paid by merchants convicted of smuggling in 1695, a public fundraising appeal which brought in £9,000, and a £2,000 annual contribution from Treasury. In 1705 an additional £6,472 was paid into the fund, comprising the liquidated value of estates belonging to the recently hanged pirate Captain William Kidd. The first of the principal buildings constructed was the King Charles Court (the oldest part dating back to the restoration), completed in 1705. The first governor, Sir William Gifford, took up office in 1708.

United States

Federal homes

The first national veterans' home in the United States was the United States Naval Home approved in 1811 but not opened until 1834 in the

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. The Naval Home was moved to

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in 1976.US History Encyclopedia: Soldiers' Home" in Answers.com at (Retrieved 4 January 2010)
an

/ref> It was subsequently opened to veterans of other services and is now the Gulfport Campus of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. The first Army national old soldiers' home in the U.S. was established in

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, in 1851.

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founded the Soldier's Home in Washington, D.C., and another (since fallen into disuse) in

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with about $118,000 in leftover proceeds of assessments on occupied Mexican towns and the sale of captured tobacco in the

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. The Old Soldier's Home, now known as the

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, was the site of

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, a 34-room Gothic Revival cottage, which served as Lincoln's summer home during the

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. It is adjacent to

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, the first federal military cemetery in the United States. The Home has remained in continuous use since its establishment. It is located on a wooded campus overlooking the U.S. Capitol in the heart of Washington, D.C., three miles from the White House, and continues to serve as a retirement home for U.S. enlisted men and women. Both the Washington, D.C., and Gulfport soldiers' and sailors' homes are funded through a small monthly contribution from the pay of members of the U.S. Armed Services. Following the

the federal government increased the number of National Military Homes, and took over a few formerly state-run old soldiers' homes. By 1933 there were 17 federally managed veterans homes. All except the first two of these homes were eventually combined with other federal government agencies to become part of what is now called the

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, or U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs established in 1930.

State homes

Caring for the disabled and elderly, and the widows and orphans of men who died in the war became a concern even before the

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ended. For example, in 1864 Fitch's Home for Soldiers and Their Orphans was opened with private donations in

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. Various female benevolent societies pushed for the creation of a long-term care federal or state soldier home system at the end of the war. Large veterans organizations like the

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and

United Confederate Veterans The United Confederate Veterans (UCV, or simply Confederate Veterans) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was organized on June 10, 1889, by ex-soldiers and sailors of the Confederate Sta ...

eventually also worked for the creation of federal and state homes to care for disabled or elderly veterans. In a few cases veterans organizations on their own raised the money to buy property and build veterans homes. Most of these were quickly turned over to the state government to fund and manage. The majority of state legislatures established veterans homes paid for by state monies from the start. 43 states managed 55 functioning state veterans homes before 1933. Fourteen of those states also had a federal veterans home open at the same time as their state veterans home. Eleven states had two or more state veterans homes in operation at the same time (two of which also had a federal home). Some states simply had several homes at once. A few states admitted veterans' widows, and a few other states established separate homes for the widows and orphans. A few states had separate Union and

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old soldiers' homes. The first of 16 Confederate homes was opened in 1881 in Georgetown, Kentucky. Confederate soldiers' homes were supported entirely by subscribers or by the states, with no funds from the federal government against which the Confederates had fought. A few state-run old soldiers' homes were eventually folded into the federal veterans home system. As their last few Civil War veterans were dying in the 1930s, some states chose to close their old soldiers' homes, and other states began admission of veterans from more recent wars. Several of these state old soldiers' homes have been modernized and stopped serving veterans.

City homes

Soldier homes in major cities were among the earliest, usually starting more as hotels for men passing through town, but increasingly taking on disabled servicemen. These were usually operated as paying businesses rather than being fully funded by the government.

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had two soldiers' homes which were associated with nearby

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and got their start as a part of the refreshment and lodging business. Women activists also helped establish disabled soldiers' homes in

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, and

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, or in conjunction with the U.S. Sanitary Commission in 25 other cities. The Boston home closed in 1869, the Philadelphia homes closed in 1872, the Chicago Soldiers' Home lasted until 1877, and Milwaukee turned into a federal home.

US Sanitary Commission homes, lodges, and rest

During the Civil War, the US Sanitary Commission provided Union servicemen " mporary aid and protection,—food, lodging, care, etc.,—for soldiers in transitn ic chiefly the discharged, disabled, and furloughed." By 1865 the Commission operated 18 "soldiers' homes," 11 "lodges," and one "rest" in 15 states north and south (for a list se
Commission bulletin, 3:1279
. Most of their homes were war-time facilities and were closed at war's end. They are not included in the following list.

List of historic old soldiers' and sailors' homes in the United States

(By state) *

Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home Confederate Memorial Park is an Alabama State Park located in Mountain Creek, Alabama, Mountain Creek, in rural Chilton County, Alabama, United States. The park's centerpiece is Alabama's only state home for Confederate soldiers. The home "operate ...

a.k.a. Jefferson Manly Falkner Soldiers' Home, Mountain Creek, Alabama * Tuskegee Home a.k.a. Veterans Administration Hospital and Nursing Home,

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*Arkansas Confederate Soldiers' Home,

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* Los Angeles Disabled Veterans Home a.k.a. Pacific Branch National Military Home, Sawtelle,

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, California *

Veterans Home of California Yountville The Veterans Home of California is located in Yountville, California, and was founded in 1884. The facility is the largest of its kind in the United States and has a population of almost 800 aged and disabled veterans of World War II, the Korean W ...

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*Colorado State Soldiers and Sailors Home, Homelake, Colorado *Fitch's Home for Soldiers and Their Orphans,

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* United States Soldiers' Home a.k.a.

*Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home,

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*St. Petersburg ationalHome (Bay Pines),

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Confederate Soldiers' Home The first Atlanta Confederate Soldiers' Home (also called the Old Soldiers' Home) was built in 1890 with the support of Henry W. Grady at a cost of $45,000. Grady proposed the idea first in 1889, and began to raise funds through "subscriptions". ...

a.k.a. Georgia Soldiers' Home,

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, Georgia *Idaho State Soldiers Home,

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, Illinois *Danville Branch National Military Home,

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*Logan Home a.k.a. Maywood Home for Soldiers' Widows,

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*Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home a.k.a. Illinois Veterans Home,

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*Soldiers' Widows' Home,

Wilmington, Illinois Wilmington is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States. Located on Illinois Route 53 and Historic U.S. Route 66 along the east bank of the Kankakee River, it is approximately south-west from downtown Chicago. The population was 5,664 at t ...

* Marion Branch National Military Home,

Marion, Indiana Marion is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Indiana, United States, along the Mississinewa River. The population was 28,310 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from ...

*Indiana State Soldiers Home,

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*Iowa Veterans Home,

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* Kansas Soldiers' Home,

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*Kansas State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Western Branch National Military Home,

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*Confederate Soldiers' Home and Widows' and Orphans' Asylum,

Georgetown, Kentucky Georgetown is a home rule-class city in Scott County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 37,086 at the 2020 census. It is the sixth-most populous city in Kentucky. It is the seat of its county. It was originally called Lebanon whe ...

* Kentucky Confederate Soldiers' Home,

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*Soldiers' Home at

*Soldiers' Home of Louisiana a.k.a. Camp Nicholls Soldier's Home,

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, Louisiana * Eastern Branch National Military Home,

Togus, Maine Togus VA Medical Center is a facility operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in Chelsea, Maine. The facility was built as a resort hotel, and housed Union veterans of the American Civil War prior to being converted to a ve ...

*Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home,

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*Discharged Soldiers' Home,

, Massachusetts *Soldiers' Home,

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Holyoke, Massachusetts Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 38,247. Loca ...

*Grand Rapids Home for Veterans,

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Minnesota Veterans Home The Minnesota Soldiers' Home, later known as the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis, is an old soldiers' home near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. History After the American Civil War and the devastation that it caused, there ...

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, Minnesota * Beauvoir Confederate Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Jefferson Davis Beauvoir Memorial Soldiers' Home,

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* Biloxi Home ational Homea.k.a. VA Medical Center,

* Missouri Confederate Home,

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*Missouri State Federal Soldiers' Home,

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*Montana State Soldiers' Home,

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*Soldiers and Sailors' Home,

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*Soldiers and Sailors' Home,

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*New Hampshire Soldiers' Home,

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* Home for Disabled Soldiers,

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*Veterans Memorial Home,

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*Home for Disabled Soldiers,

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*Veterans Memorial Home,

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* New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home a.k.a. Bath Branch National Military Home,

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* State Women's Relief Corps Home a.k.a. New York State Veterans Home,

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*North Carolina Soldiers' Home,

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*Soldiers Home,

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Central Branch National Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio
ref name="Ancestry"/> *Soldiers' Home,

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*Oklahoma Confederate Home a.k.a. Oklahoma Veterans Center,

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*Oklahoma Union Soldiers' Home,

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, Oklahoma *Oregon State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Roseburg Branch National Military Home,

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*Soldiers' and Sailors' Home,

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*Cooper Shop Soldiers' Home,

, Pennsylvania *Soldiers' Home of Philadelphia,

, Pennsylvania * United States Naval Home,

, Pennsylvania *Rhode Island Soldiers' Home,

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*Confederate Home for Soldiers and Sailors a.k.a. South Carolina Confederate Infirmary,

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*Battle Mountain Sanitarium National Military Home,

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*South Dakota State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Michael J. Fitzmaurice Veterans Home,

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ref name="Ancestry"/> *Confederate Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Tennessee Soldiers' Home, Hermitage (Nashville), Tennessee *Texas Confederate Home for Men,

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*Texas Confederate Woman's Home, north of

*Vermont Soldiers' Home,

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* Washington State Soldiers' Home, and Washington State Soldiers' Colony,

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* Milwaukee Soldiers Home, in the Milwaukee Soldiers Home

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District—

Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District The Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District is a veterans' hospital located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with roots going back to the Civil War. Contributing buildings in the district were constructed fr ...

, on the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center grounds in

, Wisconsin. The most intact Soldiers Home in the country and the only one with the majority of its surrounding recuperative village remaining. *Wyoming State Home for Soldiers and Sailors,

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in 1903, where it continues to serve in the present day.

References

External links

Armed Forces Retirement Home(s)National Association of County Veterans Service OfficersNational Association of State Veterans Homes
*VA's explanation of long term care availability
VA Long Term Care Services
*Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivor, Chapter 1 VA Health Care Benefits, section o
Nursing Home Care
*The VA has a section of its website devoted t
geriatrics
which includes information about long term care options *P.J. Budahn,
Veteran's Guide to Benefits, 4th ed.
' (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2005; Digitized by Google Books), 193–240.

(scroll down for the list) (site charges fees for pension information: alternatively browse the VA's page explaining th

State Veterans Homes with Approved Sharing AgreementsLocating Old Soldiers Home Records
in the United States before World War II, showing the name of each home, years of operation, some Internet links to related sites, and in some cases the known manuscript collections of their records.
Home For Heroes
Documentary produced by

Twin Cities Public Television Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (abbreviated TPT, trade name, doing business as Twin Cities PBS) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities' two PBS membe ...

The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
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