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October 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Four disabled veterans, including two who continued to serve in the military after losing limbs, said the government must rethink the way it delivers benefits to new veterans.by Rick Maze In a Friday panel discussion at the National Symposium for the Needs of Young Veterans, hosted by AmVets in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Ill., [...]
October 21st, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
October 21st, 2006 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
Pentagon to resume forced anthrax vaccine programby Kristin Roberts The Pentagon on Monday said it will force troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and South Korea to be vaccinated against anthrax, restarting a court-halted program after U.S. regulators declared the shots safe and effective. But William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said the Pentagon [...]
October 21st, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
October 20th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
It is now illegal to be poor and homeless According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, over 60 American cities have essentially made it criminal to be poor, introducing measures to make it illegal to beg or sleep on the street, to sit in bus shelters for more than an hour, to stand on [...]
October 19th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
‘Beginning of the End of America’ Olbermann addresses the Military Commissions Act in a special comment SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann, Anchor, MSNBC Countdown We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived as people in fear. And nowour rights and our freedoms in perilwe slowly awake to learn that we have been [...]
October 19th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Death Penalty Sought For Troops U.S. service members will face military trials in three separate cases for the murders of Iraqi civilians, including the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl and the killing of her family in their home in Mahmudiya, the military said on Wednesday. An Army general ordered the court-martial of [...]
October 19th, 2006 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Television images of Americans fighting and dying in Iraq are traumatizing Vietnam veterans all over again. by Eric Newhouse Left, images like this one of the war in Iraq of a soldier holding a child who died as a result of a car bomb are causing PTSD to resurface in Vietnam Veterans. According to the [...]
October 18th, 2006 | Posted in Coping | Read More »
From the noble American ideal of each human being possessing unalienable rights as declared by the Founders 230 years ago amid the ringing of bells in Philadelphia, the United States effectively rescinded that concept on a dreary fall day in Washington.by Robert Parry At a crimped ceremony in the East Room of the White House, [...]
October 18th, 2006 | Posted in Legislation | Read More »
A COUNTRY FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” From Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Lincoln Said It This Way The last sentence of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is: God shall have [...]
October 17th, 2006 | Posted in World War II | Read More »
The latest in a series of congressionally mandated reports on the long-term health effects of troop deployments to Southwest Asia from the 1991 Gulf War to present was released today. by Steven Donald Smith The new study, Gulf War and Health: Volume 5, Infectious Diseases, is the fifth in the series, and focuses on infectious [...]
October 17th, 2006 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Get to Know Employers who Support Our Veterans U.S. Customs and Border Protection Joins Forces with HireVeterans.com to reach out and Employ U.S. Military Veterans to Protect the United States of America by Lynn Earle PPS, at HireVeterans.com U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CBP combined the [...]
October 17th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
VETERANS’ ADVISORY BOARD ON DOSE RECONSTRUCTION (VBDR) Public Meeting & Comment Session The goal of VBDR is to provide guidance and oversight of the dose reconstruction and claims compensation programs for veterans of U.S.-sponsored atmospheric nuclear weapons tests from 1945-1962; veterans of the 1945-1946 occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; and veterans who were prisoners [...]
October 16th, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Health Care Eligibility and Enrollment for Veterans Eligibility for VA health care is dependent upon a number of variables, which may influence the final determination of the services for which you qualify. These factors include the nature of a veteran’s discharge from military service (e.g., honorable, other than honorable, dishonorable), length of service, VA adjudicated [...]
October 16th, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer known for defending unsavory criminals, now faces the possibility of living out her life like many of them, in maximum-security lockdown in a federal prison. by Julia Preston Left, Lynne Stewart in her former law office. She was convicted in 2005 of aiding a high-profile terrorist. Today, 20 months [...]
October 16th, 2006 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
4 old friends reminisce on the old daysby Nicole Gerring Wearing a green jacket inscribed with the phrase, “Uncommon valor was a common virtue,” Ed Williams paced back and forth in the hotel lobby, waiting for his friends to appear. He wasn’t waiting for drinking buddies or a dinner date. Williams, 63, and his wife, [...]
October 15th, 2006 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
Film Studies: War is hell – PR isn’t much better By David Thomson Iwo Jima was an island about 500 miles south of Tokyo. It was volcanic, and it was known for its black sand. Like many islands in the Pacific, it was not much to speak of and not valuable to hold. But it [...]
October 15th, 2006 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Read More »
War Reenactments are becoming a popular way to relive history and prepare for warby Alex Taylor There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell. That speech, loosed by William Sherman on a class of Michigan cadets, is an acknowledged truth. War is hell. [...]
October 14th, 2006 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
A political war of attrition has reduced a band of military veterans to about eight candidates who might help Democrats seize control of the House of Representatives.by Andrew Stern CHICAGO–Four weeks before a November 7 election that Democrats hope will return them to power in Congress, they’re the only ones seen as possible contenders of [...]
October 14th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
October 13th, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Soldiers Shoot Themselves in Iraq War Documentary Every war finds its own way to communicate with the home front Called up for service in Iraq, several members of the National Guard were given digital video cameras. This film, edited from their footage, provides a perspective on a complex and troubled conflict. Newsreels in movie theaters [...]
October 13th, 2006 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Read More »
In an effort to defeat Iraq’s insurgency, the U.S. military is now training its lower ranks on how to win the hearts and minds of the locals.Julian E. Barnes WASHINGTON Three years after insurgents appeared as a potent force in Iraq, the U.S. military has begun to expand its counterinsurgency training by focusing more closely [...]
October 13th, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
Benefit beefcake calendar features Marines, some wounded in Iraq NEW YORK — A group of Marines and ex-Marines who fought in Iraq– including two wounded there– are featured in a beefcake calendar being sold to help veterans battling with life in America. “It’s a stopgap effort to help people where government programs leave off,” said [...]
October 12th, 2006 | Posted in Support the Troops | Read More »
War Crime Defense Funds Springing Up Across the Nationby Ken Maguire BROCKTON, Mass.–Gray-haired Patrick Barnes still wears a crew cut and sits ramrod straight in his chair. Before clamping his cell phone shut, he says “Semper Fi” to a buddy instead of “bye.” Barnes, a 58-year-old Marine veteran of Vietnam who earned a Purple Heart [...]
October 12th, 2006 | Posted in Legislation | Read More »
Multiple Corporate Gray Job Fairs announced in Virginia and California Co-Sponsored by Competitive Edge Services and the Military Officers Association of America Competitive Edge Services has been hosting the Corporate Gray Job Fairs for almost 10 years. The events are held near major military installations across the country, allowing companies the opportunity to meet face-to-face with [...]
October 12th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Dramatic Changes for Veteransby Chairman Larry Craig, U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs There is an old adage in the news business: “If it bleeds, it leads.” People like drama, and editors know that exciting stories get readers to buy newspapers and viewers to tune in to the evening news. We want to know why [...]
October 11th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
WWII video game ‘Company of Heroes’ has more than enough grit to go around by Dan Scheraga This new real-time strategy game begins as the Allied forces storm Omaha Beach on D-Day. From there, it is up to you to guide the soldiers of Able Company through several well-defined missions as they slug it out [...]
October 11th, 2006 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Read More »
Get to Know Employers who Support Our Veterans Leatherman Tool Group Rolls up its Sleeves to Hire U.S. Military Veterans by Lynn Earle PPS, at HireVeterans.com Leatherman Tool Group bears the name of company founder Tim Leatherman. Beginning with the original Pocket Survival Tool, Leatherman is now the leading multi-tool producer in the world. With this [...]
October 11th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Can a Little Know Car Company Save the World from War? Tesla Motors Wages War Against the Past and Drives Towards a Real New World Order by John P. Allen With our U.S. Veterans suffering more than anytime since Vietnam and with no end in site for our soldiers on the ground fighting wars in Iraq and [...]
October 10th, 2006 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
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