There is a new VA program that helps connect veterans to prevent loneliness

PHOTO: WWII French veterans Leon Gautier, 98 years old last survivor of the Kieffer Commando, left, is honored by French President Emmanuel Macron with the Legion…

PHOTO: WWII French veterans Leon Gautier, 98 years old last survivor of the Kieffer Commando, left, is honored by French President Emmanuel Macron with the Legion of Honor during a WWII ceremony to mark the 81st anniversary of late French Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s resistance call from London on June 18, 1940, at the Mont Valerien, in Suresnes, near Paris, Friday, June 18, 2021. The appeal, which was delivered on the BBC by Charles de Gaulle, served to rally his countrymen after the fall of France to Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

by: Curtis Koch

Posted: Jan 27, 2022 / 04:38 PM CST

Updated: Jan 27, 2022 / 04:38 PM CST

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Prince Taylor, VA Deputy Director for the Center for Development and Civic Engagement, joined Chicago’s Afternoon News to discuss the VA’s Compassionate Contact Corps program. This program matches volunteers with lonely, socially isolated veterans.