Many Veterans with Multiple Sclerosis do not consider themselves paralyzed, and many are surprised to learn that PVA’s first President in 1946, Gilford Moss, had MS.  Veterans with MS often have symptoms that are often consistent with the definition of paralyzed, and almost a quarter of our members within the Mountain States Chapter and within the National organization have MS.  Today we are the only Veteran Service Organization with service officers who specialize both in spinal cord injuries but also disorders like MS and ALS. 

Our chapter has an MS Coordinator and our chapter took the lead in creating a standing MS Committee at the National level with the following goals: