Black veterans remember bonds, tension and isolation By HOLLY EDWARDS Pictured left: Charles Kimbrough shows the Purple Heart and Korean service medals he received during the Korean War. When President Truman desegregated the armed forces on July 26, 1948, critics predicted racial tensions would weaken the military and morale on the battlefield would plummet. Today, [...]
Bush may cut program for vets going to college By Dave Newbart When Katherine Hegler first tried college after leaving the Army, her grades were so bad that she ended up on academic probation. She left school and re-enlisted. When she returned to school more recently, she had the help of Veterans Upward Bound, a [...]
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Iraq war veterans already joining burgeoning homeless populationBy Ron Chepesiuk Adjusting to civilian life after serving in the military has always been a daunting challenge for soldiers, but as the Iraq war continues with no end in sight, an increasing number of returning American soldiers are finding it tough merely to put a roof over [...]
Deployed military enjoying stronger job protectionsBy John Andrew Prime Pictured left: Sgt. Jim Taliaferro was deployed with the Air Force Reserve’s 917th Wing and was able to return to his job at the Shreveport Police Department. Barely weeks after the smoke cleared from the devastation wrought on the East Coast by Islamic terrorists in September [...]
Iraq winners allied with Iran are the opposite of U.S. visionBy Robin Wright Pictured left: Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim headed the Shiite ticket that won Iraq’s national elections. When the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq two years ago, it envisioned a quick handover to handpicked allies in a secular government that would be the antithesis of [...]
Hugs for Heroes gives soldiers sweet supportBy Anna Katherine Clemmons Standing in the front hall of her home, Mireille Manzone gestures toward several piles of boxes with address labels marked for Kuwait and Fallujah. These boxes are the latest product of Manzone’s Hugs for Heroes program, an outreach effort she began last summer to send overseas [...]
Drug given to troops may cause soldiers to snap As a volunteer firefighter, Georg-Andreas Pogany had seen disfigured bodies pulled from wrecked cars. But something very different happened when the Army interrogator saw the mangled remains of an Iraqi soldier. He became panicked, disoriented and that night reached for both his loaded pistol and rifle [...]
Since 9/11 - Fewer Gays being Discharged The ‘Don’t ask, Don’t Tell’ ousters at lowest level in years The number of gay and lesbian service members discharged under the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy has dropped by almost half since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and is at its lowest level since the [...]
Hundreds of U.S. citizens likely died in Soviet Gulags Left – A document from Russian archives lists American servicemen in Soviet custody in May 1945. WASHINGTON - U.S. military service members may have been imprisoned and died in Soviet forced-labor camps during the 20th century, according to a Pentagon report to be released Friday. Researchers for the [...]
No pauper’s grave for homeless vets Harold Dean Harris died destitute and homeless in an abandoned building and would have gone to a pauper’s grave if not for the military papers found in his wallet. An Army veteran, he was buried Thursday with full military honors. No friends or family came, and no old Army buddies [...]
9/11 Commission says US aviation officials received warnings about possible hijackings The independent commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks says in the months before the strike, the U.S. agency that oversees aviation failed to respond to dozens of warnings about possible terrorist action on U.S. airliners. The information is contained in a [...]
Proposed Budget Reaches Deep Into Veterans’ Pockets WASHINGTON, Feb.7 — The leader of the nation’s largest military veterans organization reacted strongly to the effects that President Bush’s budget plan will have on veterans. He called it a smoke screen to raise revenue at the expense of veterans. “This is not acceptable,” said Thomas P. Cadmus, [...]
Bonuses for special ops veterans The US government is offering senior members of U.S. special operations forces bonuses of up to $150,000 for staying in the military, an increase designed to keep the commandos from bolting to the more lucrative private sector. The policy, announced by U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, provides [...]
Recovering vets cope with more than bullets, shrapnel woundsBy Cpl. Jess Levens Twenty-eight year old Cpl. Bradley A. Collier described death: “I closed my eyes and all the noises faded away, and all the pain stopped. “It was bright. I didn’t see angels, but I saw the light. It wasn’t bright like the desert sun. [...]
Honoring victims of agent orange Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant, is and was a weapon of war deployed by American Forces against the enemy during the Vietnam War. Accidentally, many of our own servicemen and women were also wounded and killed by it. We, the Selection Committee of The Order of the [...]
CLEVELAND BROWNS DONATE TICKETS FOR SUPER BOWL TO SUPER MARINES CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Fifty Marines got a special thanks for their service from the NFL’s Cleveland Browns — a free trip to the Super Bowl. The Browns donated 50 tickets to Sunday’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots for Marines who have [...]
Wounded Soldiers vow Never to Quit WINDHAM, New York — Sgt. Andrew Butterworth was up on skis for the first time since losing a leg in Iraq. And almost just as quickly, he was down. “You still want to go?” his instructor asked, helping the 25-year-old National Guardsman from Durham, North Carolina, out of the [...]
Disabled Veterans Give VA High Marks for Quality, But Timely Access a Problem WASHINGTON– A nationwide survey conducted by the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) has found that its members who use the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical system generally give high marks to the quality of care they received, but timely access remains a [...]
Veterans may have higher risk of ALS The risk for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in men is increased by 50 percent by military service according to one study; another study fails to find that physical activity increases ALS incidence in the general population. Two recent studies published in the journal Neurology highlight the challenges in [...]
Vietnam vets ride once more in a Huey Helicopter and receive respect, closure Strap in. Pull pitch. And take your heart for a ride… Vietnam vets, families of fallen soldiers and others will relive their wartime experiences and receive both respect and closure when they ride once again in a Huey helicopter, an icon of [...]
Our creature comforts have made silent cowards of us allBy John Kaminski … absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad “We do it because we can,” the military man said smugly. And by such philosophy, the corporate American war machine tries to take the world to [...]
Donate Unused Frequent Flier Miles To Good Cause Many people earn frequent flyer miles that they know will never add up to a free flight, but Ruth to the Rescue has a way to put those miles to good use. Donating miles to Operation Hero Miles allows families to visit wounded soldiers while they recover [...]
From military to civilian By Aïssatou Sidimé When Adam Gomez left the Air Force in late 2002 after serving as a security officer on bases in South Korea, Saudi Arabia and New Mexico, he expected to shift into a similar job in the civilian world. Instead, Gomez found himself unemployed. The best job he was offered [...]
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