Increasing numbers of civilian attorneys are stepping up to the plate to assist veterans The U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA) is infamous for its culture of claim denial (like a particularly mean health insurance company) and its systemic bureaucratic hostility to veterans. But increasing numbers of civilian attorneys are stepping up to the plate [...]
Austin Energy Has Partnered With HireVeterans.com to Employ War Veterans Austin Energy Reaches Out to War Veterans By K. Morgan Barker and Randy Miller In a move as smart and as advanced as everything else they stand for, Austin Energy has teamed up with HireVeterans.com to employ war veterans. Austin Energy is one of America’s [...]
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology Seeking War Veterans for Employment Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology Joins Forces With HireVeterans.com to Employ War Veterans By Morgan Barker and John P. Allen Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology is the world’s leader in CNC coordinate measuring machines and complete solutions for multidimensional metrology in the metrology lab and production. The company [...]
Diabetes Knowledge For Type 2 Diabetic Veterans BY: CAROL DUFF RN Education is the Holy Grail for the care of Veterans with Type 2 diabetes. Knowledge of the various aspects of diabetes is the basis for decisions about exercise, diet, blood glucose monitoring, weight control, use of medications, vascular risk factors, foot and eye care. [...]
Rejection of appeal by Supreme Court clears way for deserters' deportationby Kari Huus, MSNBC The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday refused to hear an appeal by two U.S. military deserters who sought refuge in the country to avoid deployment to Iraq, a conflict they argued is “immoral and illegal.” The announcement ends a bid [...]
Time for WEPT: War Excess Profits Taxby G. Duff During the Civil War, there was an uproar about the dishonorable act of getting rich off war. By World War I, it was national policy to tax Excess War Profits. During World War II, President Roosevelt pushed thru three measures to tax war profits. We also [...]
THERE NEVER HAS BEEN A COMING HOME: WHY IS SUICIDE THE ONLY CHOICE TO SOME?by G. Duff We have another war, decades later and CBS is, again, "telling it like it is". Last time it was CBS against General Westmoreland. CBS was claiming, among other things, that Vietnam Veterans were killing themselves in alarming numbers. [...]
Influenza Vaccine: A Need For the Diabetic by Carol Duff, RN Influenza is a potentially serious viral infection with an incidence in the United States of 5% to 20% of the population. Classic symptoms of the illness are sudden high fever, chills, head ache, unproductive cough, nasal congestion, sore throat, generalized aching, and malaise. It [...]
A CBS News Investigation Uncovers A Suicide Rate For Veterans Twice That Of Other Americans. So far 5,000 dead. Not shot, not grenaded, not killed. 5,000 suicides. (CBS) They are the casualties of wars you don’t often hear about – soldiers who die of self-inflicted wounds. Little is known about the true scope of suicides among [...]
Veterans Get Ousted from their Jobs Major Government Survey Shows Veterans Losing Their Jobs at Home Upon Return from War by Hobart R. Rivers Horribly strained by extended tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, growing numbers of reservists in the U.S. Military say the U.S. Government is providing little help to enlisted soldiers who are denied [...]
Building 18 symbolizes a larger problem in Walter Reed's treatment of the wounded By Dana Priest and Anne Hull, Washington Post Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and [...]
Veterans Stand Ready to HelpA "Marshall Plan" for Our Heroes Dr. Robert M. GatesSecretary of DefenseThe PentagonWashington D.C. Secretary Gates, Our country has well over 20 million veterans of military service. Veterans come from every walk of life, economic and educational level and age. Veterans have served their country, in peacetime and war, having proven [...]
Despite concerns of overstepping, Times photographer Luis Sinco feels compelled to help the Iraq vet he made famous.by Luis Cinco, photographer LA Times Left, this is the photo that made Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller — the "Marlboro Marine" –famous. This photo also changed my life. I’m Luis Sinco, a Los Angeles Times staff [...]
TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR DIABETES: A MUST READ FOR THE NEWLY DIAGNOSED DIABETIC Primer for Diabetes Mellitus by Carol Duff RN Diabetes Mellitus is not a single disease, but a group of metabolic disorders that all share the feature of hyperglycemia or an abnormal excess of sugar in the blood. An excess of sugar in [...]
TIME TO GET OUT THE "TAR AND FEATHERS" FIND OUT WHY OUR PARALYZED VETS NEED "BATHROOM GUARDS" AT AWARD DINNERS By G. Duff Looking the the articles today, I find one complaining about how veterans are denied their jobs when they come back from Iraq and another from the Paralyzed Veterans of America thanking vets [...]
HEROES – A presentation A Veterans Day Gift Submitted by Gordon Duff as sent to him by Vietnam Vet, Navy Corpsman Gary Lieber. Enjoy this holiday and remember those who aren't here with us today and those who never will be again. Click on link below to view http://www.iwo.com/heroes.htm Related Posts:No Related Posts
Veterans are short-changed every dayby Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Veterans day is to show respect to the 10% of our children that become Veterans. 25% of the homeless in the U.S. are veterans. What does this say about the U.S.? Our children that go off to war or conflict come back to a world you [...]
Government providing little help to soldiers who are denied their old jobs when they return homeby Hope Yen WASHINGTON— Strained by extended tours in Iraq, growing numbers of military reservists say the government is providing little help to soldiers who are denied their old jobs when they return home, Defense Department data shows. The Pentagon survey [...]
A message from Paralyzed Veterans of America: As we take a moment to remember the service of our American military guardsmen, those who have fought for our sake towards national and international security, we are reminded that in the defense of freedom there is always sacrifice. For those both living and dead for whom freedom [...]
On Armistice Day Familiar, a poem from S. Lewis Coffee, a stretch and a "Good morning" breath:The scent of this day holds something familiar.Is it the smoke crawling from the chimney?The dog's breath as she licks a hand?Steaming coffee on a warm face?The deck dribbled with dew?Yesterday's cut grass?Are lilacs blooming? The nose and [...]
Subjecting veterans to the profit-maximizing health insurance industry leaves our moral debt unpaid. by Eric Haas, Rockridge Nation Last April, President Bush told members of American Legion Post 177 that "we owe the families and the soldiers the best health care possible." That debt is still unpaid. According to a new report by Harvard Medical School researchers, [...]
UNSETTLED MATTERS… The POW/MIA Issue.by JAMES WEBB "INTRODUCTION" This is the first in a series of articles for Veterans Journal covering the issue of American POWs and MIAs in Southeast Asia. This series is intended to educate and expose, and will hopefully bring you a better understanding of the questions surrounding the fate of our [...]
Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act creates bad blood over division of military retirement pay When the rings come off during a divorce hearing, who gets what often is a point of contention. But simmering bad blood about a 1982 law allowing the division of military retirement pay has created unending controversy among advocates and [...]
MOLOGNE HOUSE AT WALTER REED: A 'MOTEL 6' ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELLby G. Duff Two years ago, Henry Sullivan of our Vets counseling group visited Walter Reed and Mologne House. He had worked there prior to going to Vietnam as a Combat Medic and wanted to see how the guys were doing. The group had [...]
Study finds that veterans constitute a quarter of America’s homeless WASHINGTON – Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday. And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. [...]
Not To Be Read By Agent Orange Victimsby G. Duff Note: Agent Orange vicims requested not to read this. I only write for living people. Agent Orange was little but a childish game for a couple of dozen lawyers and crooked politicians while something could be done. Even Bush should know that denying benefits to [...]
Federal appeals court will weigh in on the rule that only Vietnam veterans who served on the ground or aboard ships are eligible for disability benefits because of presumed Agent Orange exposureby Laura Parker, USA TODAY Jonathan Haas says that he often saw large, billowing clouds of the defoliant Agent Orange drift from the shore [...]
DENZEL WASHINGTON a true American Email Hoax Going Round the Net So this is how the email hoax starts….. ……….Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center , in San Antonio , Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who [...]
Mythology of Warby G. Duff We weren't a military family. My mother had worked at Wright Field in Dayton during the war and her brother was with the 101 at Bastogne and had the missing toes to prove it. Uncle Buford, who grew in a mining camp outside Hazard, Kentucky, was my first initiation with [...]
A tribute to the American Red Cross Donut Dollies who served during the Vietnam Warby Donna Teresa I get many requests from readers to write about certain people, historical events etc. There is one group in particular who are mentioned quite often: the American Red Cross Donut Dollies who served during the Vietnam War. These [...]
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