There are those unsung heroes who quietly serve behind the scenes and who don’t ask for much attention. By Donna Teresa Within the last few years, I have been receiving a large number of requests from the Armed Forces to write about a group of people who have entertained them for many years. When I [...]
IRS Will Send Stimulus Payments Automatically Starting in May; Eligible Taxpayers Must File a 2007 Tax Return to Receive Rebate Editor’s Note: I was actually happy to receive a phone call from the IRS today! Mark Hanson called me to ask me to publish this information so that veterans will be sure to file their 2007 [...]
HELL IN A HANDBASKET, POOR TRANSPORATION…BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO BUY GAS BY G. DUFF I feel a continual need to howl at the moon sometimes. For years I told everyone I knew that the tax cuts and defense waste was going to put us in a recession. For those of us living in middle [...]
VVA praised and damned Congress for actions taken and not taken and hit on legislation that could make a huge difference for veteransby Vietnam Veterans of America In testimony before a joint session of the Senate and House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs, VVA National President John Rowan both praised and damned Congress for actions taken [...]
PIN-UP GIRL WORKS FOR ILL AND INJURED VETERANS Pin Up for Vets Puts Out New Calendar by Frederick S. Meessen, American Legion Post 492, West Lafayette, Indiana To honor her grandfather, Louis, who served in the United States Army for four years during World War II and to help with the effort in aiding military [...]
Veterans needed who recall stories of Camp Tracy, a top-secret WWII interrogation center by Rick Lemyre Left, Historian Carol A. Jensen shows remnants of soundproofing and bugging wires while guiding a tour of the Byron Hot Springs Resort for National Park Service researchers. Information is being collected on the resort’s use as a WWII prisoner [...]
GIVING AWAY OF AMERICA! [VIDEOS]By Rick ThorneYou Better Look Around And See What’s Really Going On In America! America Is Rapidly Becoming A third World Nation. Think about this! 1. The stock market keeps falling2. The American dollar is virtually worthless3. Thousands of homes are foreclosed each month4. Gasoline keeps rising5. Food keeps going up6. [...]
Veterans of Cold War experiments cannot get help, recognition from DOD or the Armyby Michael Bailey Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed what many veterans have known: that the Department of Defense (DOD) stopped trying to find those who participated in the military’s chemical and biological experiments. In 2003, they gave up and [...]
Navy Veterans Face High Risk of Developing Asbestos Illnesses The shipbuilding and repairing activities from before World War II until the 1980s (when restrictions were placed on asbestos use) subjected thousands of Navy veterans to asbestos exposure on a daily basis, often for years at a time. The resulting asbestos-caused diseases are now being diagnosed [...]
60,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have PTSDby Jason Leopold Jonathan Schulze was awarded two Purple Hearts in 2005 after a lengthy tour of duty in Iraq. But the Marine veteran couldn’t escape the war inside his head. Drugs and alcohol temporarily numbed his pain. Yet the guilt he carried around with him having been one of [...]
PASSAGE OF 2006 SCHUMER/MALONEY BILL ALLOWS VETS TO USE VA LOANS FOR CO-OP APARTMENTS IN NEW YORK CITY By Frank Lozano, VA Home Loan Specialist at DirectVALoan.com Until now, NYC Veterans had no hope of owning a residence. VA Loans were only usable for houses, townhouses and condos. Most real estate in New York City [...]
The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse — sometimes with deadly results. by Jessica Pupovac, In These Times When military sexual assault survivors call Susan Avila-Smith, she advises them to keep their mouths shut while she works on getting them home. “It breaks my heart to do that,” she says, “but I [...]
They Want You! EnterprisePartners, LLC, an experienced and trusted staffing augmentation firm, is partnering with HireVeterans.com to offer US Military Veterans employment opportunities. The combination of dedication, commitment to excellence and “real world” problem solving are all attributes highly sought after by employers and coveted by the staffing consultants at EnterprisePartners, LLC. They know that [...]
Sign on with a Winner! Fire Solution Company Reaches Out to Hire U.S. Veterans Now by Holly McBain Ember Aqua Shield has joined forces with HireVeterans.com to recruit Veterans as Independent Sales Representatives to promote, sell and service their patent pending fire safety device. The Ember Aqua Shield is a unique roof mounted water device [...]
Partnering for your Success! KMS Solutions Reaches Out to Employ Our U.S. Veterans by Holly McBain KMS Solutions, LLC is partnering with HireVeterans.com to proactively seek and hire War Veterans. The life lessons and values learned by US Military service personnel is priceless and a coveted asset for any business. KMS Solutions understands the commitment [...]
The Purple Heart "They gave me a Purple Heart," he struggled to repeat himself, barely audible. "They gave me a Purple Heart and I don’t know where it is." The colonel across the bedside from me reassures the baby faced soldier lying between us. "They put all your belongings together, we’ll track it down for [...]
Peake: Applications Being Accepted from Local Providers WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is designating $37 million to fund at least 2,250 new transitional housing beds by giving grants to local providers. “This is the largest one-time designation of funds for the homeless program in VA’s history,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. [...]
PROJECT BLUE BEAM! Things Aren’t Always As They Seem, Are They? [VIDEO]By Rick Thorne Project Blue Beam is a frightening government project casting billions of people into a false reality. You say it can’t happen! I beg to differ with you. Did you know through government “BLACK PROJECTS,” American technology is a few decades ahead [...]
Visiting Iraq for Fun and Profit BY G.DUFF I just returned from a visit to Iraq, primarily Kurdistan. I traveled thru other areas of the country but spent most of my time in the area of the least military conflict, other than the irritating shelling by the invading Turkish army. It was a bit like [...]
You just might want to think twice or maybe three times before you do. Every senator and member of the house should be ashamed of letting things like this happen. Yet, it goes on daily within the Veterans Affairs with people making decisions that either cannot pour it out of boot, allowed to deny the [...]
Iraq Veterans Against the War argues incidents of U.S. brutality are not the isolated incidents but are part of a pattern, the group says, of "an increasingly bloody occupation" by Aaron Glantz SAN FRANCISCO– U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about [...]
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