Our vets deserve better, no DOGE coward cuts,” Tracie Martin, co-founder of NWI Takes Action, chanted Friday along the Highway of Flags memorial in Highland.

Samuel Baker has undergone dozens of physicals and exams, plus a handful of surgeries due to a botched landing as a U.S. Army paratrooper. Baker, who receives care at the Dallas VA Medical Center, is among the millions of veterans who say they are facing a terrifying possibility: Will cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs dramatically slash health care?

Dozens of protesters rallied against layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Cobb County on Friday. The political activist group, “Indivisible Cobb”, organized the protest near the Department of Veterans Affairs on Cobb Parkway. They oppose the recent cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency at the VA.