Suicides and Warby Doug Feaver The Post reports today that suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping such records in 1980. Our Readers Who Comment for the most part commend The Post and reporter Dana Priest for continuing to report on what happens to mentally and physically [...]
Veterans groups push for reform of disabled veterans benefits by Elizabeth Gibson WASHINGTON — Veterans groups Thursday added their support to recommendations calling for modernization of a system that determines what benefits disabled veterans receive relative to severity of their wounds. Now, the vets said, they want to see some action and enforcement from the [...]
Aegis Actively Seeking to Hire War Veterans Aegis and HireVeterans.com Have Partnered to Employ War Veterans By K. Morgan Barker Aegis announces that they have joined forces with HireVeterans.com to employ America’s war veterans. War veterans have a history of being on the cutting-edge of military technology and security. Veterans are leaders in their own [...]
"The Veterans Game" Once a Year, We are News..Veterans Day…..or When"They" NEED OIL OR "PORK/GRAFT/CORRUPTION" THEY CALL ON US BY G. DUFF It would be perfectly OK for congress to play both veterans and the many corrupt and backward organizations still around from "horse and buggy" days if we were all illegal aliens involved in [...]
Bush needs to be trimmed. by Peter Macdonald How can the President of the U.S. be so naïve to think of making his proposed tax relief permanent? Bush has raised the national debt so high that many future generations are going to be paying. The U.S. is in deep financial trouble because the selfish pad their [...]
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, which proved to be the turning point in the Vietnam War by Samuel B. Hoff The presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson began in November 1963 following the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy. It ended in January 1969 after LBJ’s announcement 10 months [...]
A LOOK AROUND AND A NOTE OR TWO BY G. DUFF Some of us have been watching the election process with, I suspect, most of us having a bad feeling or two that we are bending over in "less than polite company". I am sticking with Hillary because she says all the right things about [...]
Investigative Report: How Washington Cheats Veterans out of the Benefits They’ve Earned by Aaron Glantz When young American men and women sign up to serve in US military, our government makes a basic promise to them: that if they are wounded in the line of duty they will get the care they need. Unfortunately, for tens [...]
When it came time to sentence James Allen Gregg for his conviction on murder charges, the judge in South Dakota took a moment to reflect on the defendant as an Iraq combat veteran who suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Left: James Allen Gregg returned from a year’s combat duty as a National Guardsman [...]
Karen Hickman – Founder Lynzee Hickman – Webmaster We started in 2004 as a Non-Profit Organization, it was started due to lack of specific Organization or Group for brothers and sisters of the "Fallen." The Founder, Karen Hickman, lost her own brother Cpl. Thomas Steven Hickman in Vietnam, Aug 26,1970. She remembers feelings of lonliness and [...]
70′s Law Costs 61,000 Military Widows Thousands of Dollars in Survivor Benefits by Lizette Alvarez As many as 61,000 military widows whose husbands died of causes relating to their military service lose out on thousands of dollars a year in survivor benefits because of a law that dates from the 1970′s. Widows and retirees have [...]
Interrogators: Saddam surprised by U.S. attack Iraqi leader expected bombing in 2003, but not invasion Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to a U.S. Army Special Operation soldier from TF20 and [...]
One Soldiers Journey from Patriotic Service to Bureaucratic and Corrupt U.S. Government Hell Another Soldier Lost to the Bureaucrazy By Rick Thorne I will be 60 years old on September 11. 2008. I entered the Navy in July of 1967 in the hopes of making it a career. After boot camp I was transferred to [...]
A new wave of homeless veterans is struggling to cope by Erin McClam and Sarah Palermo Left, veteran Peter Mohan cries while speaking about a friend of his who was killed in combat in Iraq. NEW HAMPSHIRE–Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room in Leeds, Mass., where he [...]
The Wounded Warrior Act Bill of 2007 and the Retirement Restitution Act is there for the soldiers returning from war.. The purpose of these bills are to direct government agencies, Dept Of Defense and Veterans Administration to start treating soldiers who return from War, Iraq, Afghanistan, with RESPECT. Soldiers went to war to only return [...]
Senate approves revised Defense Bill and sidesteps veto showdown with Bushby Anne Flaherty WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to approve a revised defense bill authorizing a 3.5 percent pay raise for troops while sidestepping a veto showdown with President Bush. The 91-3 vote sends the $696 billion measure to Bush for his expected signature. The president had [...]
Welcome to 2008, a year of morally obscene, fiscally unsustainable spending. Watch as the military bloats and our standard of living sinks. by Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch.com Within the next month, the Pentagon will submit its 2009 budget to Congress and it’s a fair bet that it will be even larger than the staggering 2008 one. [...]
Does Sun Tzu Live in the George W. Bush White House? Study: False statements preceded warHundreds of false statements on WMDs, al-Qaida used to justify Iraq war by Burleigh Sullivan Just released today, a study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the [...]
United States Believer 1-22-08 Written by Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 The People, The citizens, The individuals, are what our U.S. Military are fighting and given their innocents for. I read many newspapers each day only to be saddened by the lack of unbiased news. Useless stories of political games played [...]
Vets in the Veterans Incarcerated Program at Sierra Conservation Center hope the camaraderie they’ve found behind bars will help keep them out once they are released by Alisha Wyman, The Union Democrat Left: While incarcerated at Sierra Conservation Center (from left), Howard Wright, 52, of San Diego, James Poole, 61, of Thousand Oaks, and Jerome Lesesne, 41, of [...]
People want to helpby Peter Macdonald People ask me all the time how can we help? I have gotten my self into this mess by volunteering to help a Madbury NH family back in 1999. I am proud of all my actions. I have not broken the law or threatened any one. I have on [...]
Unit Member Says ‘Fighting 69th’ Victimized by Depleted Uranium by Mark Anderson Sgt. Stanford Mendenhall is a member of the U.S. Army’s famed "Fighting 69th" Battalion who’s marooned at home with a variety of serious illnesses—while struggling to stay alive. But for this soldier, the mother of all battles is taking place stateside, not in [...]
A Veteran for homeless Veterans 1-21-08 Written By Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls Rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 I want to Thank Marty Capodice of the NHES for the “Stand Down” to help homeless Veterans. I also want to thank Staff Sgt Barbara-Lee Valente for her part to help homeless Veterans. I believe that there should [...]
BUD DAY KNEW MCCAIN BUT THERE WAS LITTLE LOVE BETWEEN THEM BY G. DUFF Back in the 1990s, in what was the early days of the internet, AOL was one of the few service providers. It had a Vietnam War site I started posting on in, maybe 95. We had many readers, up to 1500 [...]
Ex-Vietnam POW, McCain Cellmate, Continues Fight for Veteransby Melissa Nelson FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — It was spring of 1968 and George "Bud" Day was nearly a year into his life as prisoner of war when his North Vietnamese captors opened his cell door and brought in a man. Wearing a full body cast, the man, [...]
Is Killing the solution? Written by Peter Macdonald The hard cruel experience gained by practice in the field makes the task of killing emotionless. We are no longer children returning home. Brain washed machines that followed orders through the echoes of war are created. Heartless sons of Bitches that are dropped into a society that [...]
American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear. by David Hambling Pheromones are chemicals released by animals as signals to their own kind: for sex, for territorial marking, and more. They’re often detected in the olfactory membranes. But there’s more to [...]
We are so lucky by Peter Macdonald Pearl Harbor was because we as a nation had become so complacent with our freedom our leaders ignored the warning signs. Is this what is happening today? We have a President that wants to cut taxes and spent more money by raising the national debt. We have police [...]
THANK PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE STOOGES LOOKING AFTER OUR SOLDIERS AND VETS BY G. DUFF As a disabled veteran with two children in college on VA Chapter 35 benefits, the huge increase Bush has awarded us will cover about 1/4th of the increased cost of gasoline I pay for in the last 4 months. As [...]
Cianbro Partners With HireVeterans.com to Employ War Veterans Cianbro Corporation Partners with Top Jobboard to Offer Jobs to War Veterans By K. Morgan Barker Cianbro Corporation has stepped up to the plate to support America’s Heroes by partnering with HireVeterans.com to employ America’s war veterans. Cianbro is not alone. More and more businesses today are [...]
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