Pentagon says homosexuality not a mental disorderby Will Dunham WASHINGTON–The Pentagon no longer deems homosexuality a mental disorder, officials said on Wednesday, although the reversal has no impact on U.S. policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military. After a 1996 Pentagon document placing homosexuality among a list of “certain mental disorders” came [...]
VA says no incidents of identity theft reported since burglaryby Bob Sullivan WASHINGTON – The missing laptop and hard drive that contained veterans’ personal information has been found, Veterans Administration Chief Jim Nicholson announced Thursday. The announcement came at the beginning of a hearing before the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing. “It was confirmed to [...]
Let’s just hang those Marines accused in the Haditha incidentby Ralph Peters Get it over with. They don’t need a court martial. They’re guilty. The media already decided the case. A few other Marines and soldiers are also accused of murder in Iraq. Save our tax dollars. Just hang them, too. Forget the stresses of combat. Forget [...]
“I don’t know if this war is worth the life of Terry Lisk, or 10 soldiers, or 2,500 soldiers like him. What I do know is that he did not die alone. He was surrounded by friends.” by Dexter Filkins Left: A wounded soldier on a stretcher was among those saluting Sgt. Terry Michael Lisk, [...]
Canada is our top oil supplier–but survey says most Americans don’t know it A new poll suggests the vast majority of Americans are unaware that Canada is the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S. The Canadian American Business Council (CABC) which represents some of the biggest private sector companies in both countries said its [...]
Feds sell Highways to Foreign Countries at the Same Time They Tout Homeland Securityby Diane M. Grassi 50 years ago President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the 1956 National Federal-Aid Highway Act and since 1990 referred to as the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways. He authorized the connectivity of 41, 000 miles [...]
How to Request Military Service Records or Prove Military Service Get your DD-214 by John Allen Military personnel records can be used for proving military service, or as a valuable tool in genealogical research. Most veterans and their next-of-kin can obtain free copies of their DD Form 214 (Report of Separation) and other military and medical records [...]
Fallen Heroes’ Widows and Children Abandoned by US Beaurocracyby Lizette Alvarez Left: A grieving war widow clings to her husband’s casket As Holly Wren coped with her 6-month-old son and the sorrow of losing her husband in Iraq last November, she assumed that the military’s sense of structure and order would apply in death as it had [...]
Thousands of People are Dying from Exposure to Toxins at Ground Zeroby Shawn Cohen and Jake Sherman David Worby is now at the helm of what he calls the largest and most important class-action lawsuit in U.S. history, representing thousands of people he says are dying at an accelerated pace from exposure to toxins at [...]
How Israel Betrays U.S. President George Bush and the people of the United States Israel Undermines U.S. Foreign Policy and puts U.S. Troops in harms way Andy Martin President George Bush needs a Palestinian/Israeli hostage crisis right now like he needs a hole in the head. Bush has done more for Israel than any other [...]
Lawyers claim accepting government offer could jeopardize vets’ claims A federal judge temporarily has barred the government from publicizing its free credit monitoring offer to veterans whose personal data was stolen and wants to see if they might get a better federal offer. Lawyers who have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the 26.5 [...]
Officials point to stressed troops, greater scrutiny as possible reasons Left: U.S. soldiers inspect the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, targeting a U.S. military convoy in August. Some experts say the flurry of criminal accusations against the troops reflect the stress this conflict has taken on the troops. The accounts are brutal: An [...]
Teddy Roosevelt Influences President Bush A look back helps understand America’s Global Influence At home and abroad, he was the locomotive president, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future. Just short of a century after he left the White House, in 1909, the collective memory of Theodore Roosevelt’s strength and intellect and [...]
Is President Bush’s Middle East Sound or is his Middle East Policy right on Target? U.S. Middle East Policy rubs elbows with Olmert by Andy Martin Hypocrisy is a marvelous lubricant for politics and government. But sometimes hypocritical situations can help but provide us with a truer insight into the future that a leader may wish [...]
Boogie Woogie Bugle Girls! The Andrews Sisters: A Look Back at the one of the Greatest Vocal Groups in History During a time when teenagers were doing the jitterbug and Uncle Sam was asking young men to enlist, The Andrews Sisters were America’s most popular female singing group. Patty, the youngest sister, was a loud [...]
Iraq veterans facing homelessness As a member of the National Guard, Nadine Beckford patrolled New York train stations after Sept. 11 with a 9mm pistol, then served a treacherous year in Iraq.Now, six months after returning, Beckford lives in a homeless shelter.“I’m just an ordinary person who served. I’m not embarrassed about my homelessness, because [...]
Arnie defies Bush over border Los Angeles – California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has defied a request from Washington to deploy additional national guard troops from his state to the border with Mexico. United States President George W Bush has backed a programme under which thousands of national guard troops would back up US border patrol [...]
Jobs hard to find for Iraq vets by Ron Martz Atlanta, GEORGIA–Army Spc. Sameer Bartlett of College Park knew there would not be much demand in the job market for an artillery ammunition team chief. So he switched his specialty to human resources before he came home from a year in Iraq. But since his [...]
More than one-third of Iraq troops suffering migraines An unexpectedly high number of troops serving in Iraq are suffering from migraine headaches, researchers report. The debilitating headaches are affecting more than one-third of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, or about twice that in the general U.S. population, according to a study being presented at the annual [...]
Military charges 8 with murder of Iraqi civiliansby Carolyn Marshall Left: Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, far left facing forward, and Marines with the 1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, Kilo and Weapons Company, relax before the expected assault on Fallujah, Camp Abu Ghraib, Iraq, on Monday, Nov. 1, 2004. Terrazas was killed by a roadside bomb [...]
U.S. Back at Full War Footing in Afghanistanby Brian Ross The United States military is quietly carrying out the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since U.S. troops invaded the country in 2001. “The Taliban has made a comeback, and we have the next 90 days to crush them,” said a senior U.S. military official. The [...]
Free credit monitoring announced for veterans VA Secretary Jim Nicholson announced today (Wednesday) that veterans will have free credit monitoring made available to them, should they choose to utilize the service. “This is a tremendous move by the administration which should put minds at ease. I fully support providing this service at no cost to [...]
795,000 Veterans will be victims of identity fraud this year – even if no data is used from the stolen laptop U.S. Senators George Allen (R-Virginia), Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) have offered an amendment to S. 2766, the Defense Authorization Bill, which will help provide financial protection to the 26.5 million [...]
Iraq critics aren’t just peaceniksby Randy Schultz Critics of the Iraq War are nothing but aging hippies, Vietnam-era peaceniks who want to sing Kumbaya with Al-Qaeda and whose idea of a big night out is to rummage through the dumpsters at Whole Foods. Or so Republican leaders in Congress and their enablers in the broadcast [...]
Ahmard Hall Reporting for Duty U.S. Marine impresses NFL Coaches In late March, 150 NFL scouts and coaches descended on the University of Texas to watch quarterback Vince Young and defensive back Michael Huff work out at the school’s annual pro day. A former U.S. Marine turned fullback was the Longhorn who had several area [...]
‘We feel like we’ve found our fathers’ Left: A memorial service was held last month in Manitowoc, Wisconsin to honor those lost on the USS Lagarto. For 60 years, Nancy Kenney wondered what happened to her father. The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while he and his crew mates were on a [...]
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