Insurgents and violence in Iraq on the rise Key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in Iraq, numbers of dead and wounded show the situation has gotten worse since the summer. While those numbers don’t tell the full story of the conflict in Iraq, they suggest insurgents are growing more proficient, even [...]
Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in America By Frederick Sweet Combat veterans wounded in Iraq were left waiting weeks and even months for proper medical attention at military bases. According to an officer, their living conditions were so unacceptable for injured soldiers he said they “were being treated like dogs.” Then the [...]
Vets fighting back with letters written on brown paper bagsBy Lawrence C. Hall Thousands of military retirees are joining a grass-roots effort to restore a medical-care promise made to World War II and Korean War military retirees by our federal government more than 50 years ago. House Bill 3474 and Senate Bill 2065 in the [...]
Children of U.S. soldiers are war’s unseen casualtiesAlmost 900 youngsters have lost a parent in Iraq By LISA HOFFMAN AND ANNETTE RAINVILLE Sad to the depths of his 4-year-old soul, Jack Shanaberger knew what he didn’t want to be when he grows up: a father. “I don’t want to be a daddy because daddies die,” [...]
No Where Else to Go: Latino Youth and the Poverty Draft By Jorge Mariscal Military recruiters are well aware that the economic situation for Latino youth is relatively bleak and have targeted Latino communities as one of the primary objectives for their efforts in coming decades. In the document “Strategic Partnership Plan for 2002-2007″ written by [...]
Filmmaker seeks Iwo Jima vets A Colorado filmmaker who has interviewed almost 100 World War II veterans for two documentaries is looking for veterans who fought in the battle on the South Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Larry Cappetto’s first two volumes covered the battles on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion that led [...]
The ‘Troubled Vet’ ReturnsBy Mackubin Thomas Owens Almost from the very beginning of the American counteroffensive against the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, the specter of Vietnam has hovered over U.S. military action. Two weeks into the Afghanistan campaign, critics of the war had dusted off “quagmire,” a sturdy favorite of those who criticized [...]
Heartless killer or soldier doing job?By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson RAFAH, Gaza Strip – He is known as “Capt. R,” his identity kept secret by Israeli military court order. To many, he’s a cold-hearted Israeli killer accused of pumping multiple M-16 bullets into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl at close range while she lay in a gully [...]
Soldier Man to Maytag Man Veterans Use Their Varying Skills to Land Repair Jobs By Billy Derringer Companies like the Maytag Corp. have aggressive recruiting programs turning recently discharged soldiers into repair technicians. Home Depot Inc. began Operation Career Front and Toyota North America started its Hire A Hero program in the past few years. Companies say it’s [...]
On One Leg, a Young GI Fights to Build a New Life Sean Lewis – A Special Report By John Aloysius Farrell His right leg lost in a mortar attack in Iraq last January, Army Spec. Sean Lewis tests a titanium prosthesis in September at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Lewis, 21, is one of [...]
Mortar Explodes in Vietnam More than 40,000 killed by Leftovers By Jerry Faulk Four children aged between nine and 14 and a 20-year old man were killed in southern Vietnam when a war-time mortar shell they were playing with exploded, state media reported on Saturday. The five were killed instantly on Tuesday in a field [...]
US firm ends $325m Iraq contract Insurgents have been blamed for hampering reconstruction by Charles Reagerson A US company has pulled out of a major contract to rebuild Iraq’s transport system after attacks on reconstruction efforts, Pentagon officials have said. Contrack International, of Arlington, Virginia, heads a coalition of firms working on a series of schemes. Its [...]
Resisting Stalin The more we learn of Josef Stalin, the more alluring he becomes. By Lewis H. Siegelbaum For reasons that seem obvious, if a little ghoulish, readers can’t get enough of Josef Stalin and the horrors he committed. This past year alone, we have been treated to several blockbuster biographies, of which Simon [...]
Draft? the US Army is shady – really shady By Davey D. Jamil Posey, 19 (right), has been ordered back to Iraq. His mother, Edrina Gibson-McEntire, has terminal cancer. They are mourning the death of Jamil’s baby brother, who was recently stabbed to death. By now everyone has heard stories about a Back Door draft. [...]
Extolling nursing’s virtuesBy Jane Lerner When Iola Pollack was studying to be a nurse during World War II, students lived at the hospital, had to get permission to leave on the weekend and looked forward to graduation, when they would earn $10 weekly caring for injured veterans. And then there were the caps. “They were [...]
Soldier’s Heart By Dan Frosch and Peter Gorman Thousands of Iraq War veterans face serious psychological problems and a system ill prepared to help them. Matthew Williams was 19 years old when he enlisted in the Army in 2002. While he wanted to fight for freedom, he didn’t want to kill anyone, so he joined [...]
VA Funds New Limb-Loss Research WASHINGTON — Creating “biohybrid” limbs that use human tissue and space-age technology to assist amputees is the major goal of a $7.2 million grant by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a special research center in Rhode Island. “Helping our combat-disabled veterans recover from their wounds is among [...]
Building Peace in a Time of Perpetual War By Medea Benjamin Immediately after George Bush declared victory on November 2, 2004, his administration gave the green light for an all-out attack on the Iraqi rebel town of Fallujah. The town was virtually leveled, hundreds of civilians were killed, and over 150,000 became desperate refugees suffering [...]
Pentagon downplays the risks of depleted uranium weapons By Bob Evans The fight over depleted uranium weapons isn’t about how well they work. It’s about how safe they are when the fighting is finished. The United States began developing depleted uranium weapons in the 1950s. But the first one wasn’t fired in combat until the [...]
Iraqi war has lowest U.S. fatality rate BY Ceci Connolly WASHINGTON – Just 10 percent of soldiers injured in Iraq have died from their war wounds, the lowest casualty fatality rate ever, thanks in large part to technological advances and the deployment of surgical SWAT teams at the front lines, an analysis to be published [...]
For US soldiers, it’s Operation Stretch By: Ann Scott Tyson Soldiers shift uneasily in rows of plastic folding chairs in a warehouse-like tent, watching as Command Sgt. Maj. Clarence Stanley lays a medal on the helmet-and-rifle shrine. A salute of gunshots cracks the air. No one has died here. But the awkward rehearsal for fatalities [...]
Lighting of traditional Christmas tree brightens holidays for vets at SORCC By Dorene Stamper White City, Oregon– Recently a visit from Santa thrilled the veterans and staff at the Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics (SORCC) along with many children who attended their traditional lighting of the Christmas tree. “This lighting of the Christmas tree [...]
Veterans group brings Ten Commandments monument to Texas The American Veterans Standing for God and Country will bring the Ten Commandments monument, which was ordered removed from the Alabama State Supreme Court Building, to Waco, Texas on Thursday.The Veterans Faith and Freedom National Tour will make a stop from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday at Parkview Baptist [...]
Army to potential recruits: Wanna play? By Jim Downing Shaun Henry huddled in the snow behind a thin pillar. Nothing moved in the early-morning mist. Five enemy soldiers had taken the towers halfway across the bridge, and it was Henry’s job to eliminate them. He hoisted his M-16 and stepped into the clear. A rifle [...]
Veterans’ memories sought for posterity By Steve Wideman Raymond Van Heuklon opened his eyes and smiled as the sound of big band music filled his hospital room. After years of being at war and surviving the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the big band era had been a happy time in the [...]
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