Hire a Hero and Stand Down By Edward G. Aulman The Nassau County Veterans Service Agency in association with the United Veterans Organization and the Auxiliary of the Nassau County American Legion are planning two events to aid veterans in November. The third annual homeless Veterans Stand Down is planned for Monday, Nov. 14, at [...]
Ailing veterans blame their MS on Gulf WarTheir mission now is to spread the word about other illnessesBy Mike Barber On a morning at Westlake Center, they were a couple of wives and moms spending quality time downtown, meeting at a coffee shop to catch up on their lives. Yet Julie Mock, 38, of Woodinville [...]
FULL METAL JACKET (1987) – A movie review Is Full Metal Jacket the greatest Vietnam War Movier ever? Vote Now! There’s a major star in “Full Metal Jacket”: Stanley Kubrick’s direction. Resurfacing like a cinematic cicada after a seven-year absence, the American expatriate has overtaken the homegrown Viet Pack of Coppolas, Ciminos and Stones to [...]
Why I Was Smiling By Cindy SheehanI had a huge grin on my face when I was getting arrested. I have received a lot of flak for smiling. Apparently I am not supposed to smile, but I had some really good reasons for doing so.First of all, I was having fun. I was with a group [...]
In an echo of the Abu Ghraib fiasco, grisly images of dead, mutilated Iraqis are traded for access to pornography, an apparent breach of Geneva Conventions.By Chris Thompson For almost a year, American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been taking photographs of dead bodies, many of them horribly mutilated or blown to pieces, [...]
National Commander Thanks VFW/Aux Members Kansas City, MO.–The newly elected national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars toured the hurricane-ravaged areas of Mississippi and Louisiana last week to get a first-hand look at the damage and to thank the hundreds of VFW and Auxiliary members for their help in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.Jim Mueller, [...]
Lynddie England found guilty of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison Lynndie England, the American soldier who was photographed smiling in photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused at the Abu Ghraib prison, has been found guilty of mistreating detainees. A military court convicted England, 22, of all but one of the seven counts against her. She [...]
Sheehan arrested while protesting outside Whitehouse US military mother Cindy Sheehan, whose vigil outside President George W Bush’s Texas ranch drew attention to the anti-war movement, was arrested on Monday at a White House. Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in combat in Iraq last year, was one of some 200 protesters who sat in circles [...]
NY Mets Pitcher Danny Graves to Co-Host Delegation with Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund WASHINGTON, DC Major League Baseball’s first-ever Vietnamese-born player, Danny Graves, will return to Vietnam early next year as co-host of a special delegation to introduce baseball and promote healing and understanding between the United States and Vietnam, announced Jan C. Scruggs, founder [...]
Our Government is Failing UsRobert Schneider This country claims to be a government of the people and for the people and yet we seldom act like it. We allow other people to vote for us by our not voting. Of course, then we complain when we see the results. Often we assume that our Congress [...]
Don’t Drink the Water, Troops! WASHINGTON– Outrage overflowed on Capitol Hill this summer when members of Congress learned that Halliburton’s dining halls in Iraq had repeatedly served spoiled food to unsuspecting troops. “This happened quite a bit,” said Rory Mayberry, a former food manager with Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary. But the outrage apparently doesn’t end with spoiled [...]
US army plans to bulk-buy anthraxBy David Hambling THE US military wants to buy large quantities of anthrax, in a controversial move that is likely to raise questions over its commitment to treaties designed to limit the spread of biological weapons. A series of contracts have been uncovered that relate to the US army’s Dugway [...]
Protest converges on Capitol Washington–Opponents of the war in Iraq rallied by the thousands Saturday to demand the return of U.S. troops, staging a day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead in marches through Washington and other American and European cities. More than 2,000 people gathered on the Ellipse hours before the showcase [...]
16,000 Troops poised to roll NEW ORLEANS – Three weeks after the Gulf Coast was pummeled by Hurricane Katrina, Army emergency responders there are preparing for the possibility of a second round of severe weather from Hurricane Rita.After Rita hit the Florida Keys with winds up to 100 mph, the storm gained in strength over [...]
Vets say there is no comparison between Iraq and Vietnam warsBy Stacy Neumann Too different to even compare, that’s what the Bush Administration says when asked to put Vietnam and the Iraq War side by side. But the analogy has been making its way into mainstream America. Some said the growing vocal opposition to the [...]
O’Reilly Vs Donahue A Classic Showdown The Phil versus Bill Show Expose the fallacies of the Cindy Sheehan/Bush Clash by Joseph Allen In an amazing dichotomy of views, there has been a classic showdown between the Titans of Talk. The discussion, or more appropriately, the O’Reilly finger wagging debate, was by every measure of the word [...]
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies BERLIN Simon Wiesenthal was very open about why he became a tireless Nazi hunter: He didn’t want to meet millions of Holocaust victims in the afterlife and admit he’d forgotten their suffering. “Survival is a privilege which entails obligations,” he said in the 1989 book “Justice Not Vengeance.” When he [...]
Tuition assistance for veterans’ children in jeopardy Michigan–The family of U.S. Army reservist Kelly Matthews, killed during the Persian Gulf War, counted on promised state assistance in putting his four children through college. But a funding showdown has clouded the future of a program started in 1935 that provides a yearly $2,800 college tuition grant [...]
Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by AmericansBy Ryan Parry HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned. US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees. Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, [...]
Bush suggests lifting the ban on using the military domesticallyBy Mark Sappenfield WASHINGTON As Washington picks through the lessons learned from hurricane Katrina, there is a growing conviction that the only organization with the skills, expertise, and resources needed to respond quickly to a catastrophe of such magnitude is the American military. President Bush suggested a [...]
We want our country back!By Cindy Sheehan So we have come to cash this check – a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to [...]
Hamburger Hll (1987): a movie review Is Hamburger Hill the greatest Vietnam War Movie of All Time? Vote Now! by JP War at its worst, men at their best. I’ve seen most of the Vietnam inspired films and without question, there are movies that are bigger budgeted. There are even Hollywood showpieces that probably say more about [...]
She compiles care packages for soldiers in Iraq, AfghanistanBy Joe Menard ROCHESTER — What started out as a simple Internet search for information on war veterans has evolved into a long-distance relationship of sorts between Terri Williams and soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The relationship is simple: Soldiers tell Williams what they need, and [...]
Vets groups slam review of combat stress cases By Rick Rogers A government review of 72,000 post-traumatic stress disorder cases planned for early next year is an excuse to cut benefits for older veterans and toughen qualifications for future ones, veterans groups and other critics contend. The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to examine cases [...]
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