Thousands of dollars in funding and services go largely unused by thousands of war veterans in the Texas Panhandle.
The first Veterans Health Information Fair was Thursday at the National Guard Armory in Amarillo and brought together a variety of information on veterans' services to help reverse that trend, said Larry Witthar, a Texas Veterans Commission counselor.
"There's no real advertising by the (Department of Veterans Affairs), so much of it is word of mouth or through events like this," said Witthar, who was working one of about eight booths at the fair. "A lot of veterans don't realize what's available to them."
Only a fraction of veterans claim what they've earned and may be missing out on federal money available to them, he said. About 837,000 service members have been mobilized since 2002, and only 39 percent have used health care coverage, according to the Veterans Affairs' website.
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