Fledgling prevention effort relies on shared experienceBy Anna Badkhen, The Boston Globe Staff He knew exactly what it was like, Kevin Lambert told the Iraq war veteran at a Dunkin’ Donuts shop north of Boston: the insomnia, the bouts of depression, the hyper-vigilance that makes you imagine roadside bombs hidden in street garbage. Like the [...]
Iraqis caught in the Cross-fire during the war, help US Soldiers and find a home in America by Michael Hill, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Bullets whizzed past as "Sarah" translated for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Shrapnel from a roadside blast hit her protective vest. In her off hours, she worried about retribution for helping the [...]
Includes Akaka’s legislation to boost veterans’ home loans to Stimulus Act level WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee applauded Senate passage of H.R. 3221, with the Dodd-Shelby Housing provisions, and noted that the bill incorporated provisions from Akaka’s bill to boost limit on veterans’ home [...]
Solar Turbines Teams Up with HireVeterans.com to Recruit Our Nation’s Finest by hmcbain Wanting to do more for U.S. Military Veterans, Solar Turbines Incorporated has partnered with HireVeterans.com to actively recruit retired service personnel for employment opportunities within their company. The leadership skills learned combined with the real world experiences and training every armed service [...]
By Rick ThorneThe PINHEAD who coined that phrase is an IDIOT! How in the world can society lump all divorced men into the same disgusting category as DEAD BEAT DADs? Lack of education and job loss are prime considerations to think about when men have the inability to pay child support. Of course, we mustn’t [...]
The percentage of veterans not in the labor force more than doubled between 2000 and 2005by Alex Lantier On March 25, the Wall Street Journal published a brief summary of a US Veterans Affairs Department study on discharged veterans’ employment and wage prospects. The report, not yet publicly released and largely blacked out in the broader [...]
VA Secretary says registering voters in VA facilities is a "partisan" distraction. By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet On the same day the Pentagon’s commander in Iraq told the Senate that new troop withdrawals could not considered for months, Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake told two Democratic senators that his department will not help injured [...]
Army life never got old for 55 year old Vietnam VeteranBy APRIL HUNT, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Left, Spc. Tom Owens has no trouble keeping up with recruits half his age. After training he heads for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. The sun has just cleared the northern Alabama mountains, but nothing shines more brightly than Army [...]
SOME STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT LIFE IN AMERICA FOR US AND OUR KIDSBY G. DUFF Just finished shopping. If any of you have noticed, only a few things cost even close to what they did last year and I will be very surprised if any of you are making as much or more money. The only [...]
Defense Department will issue identification cards without full Social Security numbers printed by Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (AFRNS) — As a means of combating identity theft, the Defense Department will issue identification cards without full Social Security numbers printed onto them, a senior official said here April 3. The Defense Department [...]
Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters and high-end retailers such as Sharper Image and Franklin Covey _ and government auditors are investigating, citing past spending abuses. All told, VA staff charged $2.6 billion to their government credit cards. [...]
YOUR PRESENCE IS HEREBY REQUESTED! VETERANS PUBLIC RALLY – IV Sunday, April 13th – 1:00 – 4:00 PM"Save Our Veterans Home" National Veterans Home N/E Corner – Wilshire and San Vicente BoulevardsBRENTWOOD We need to stop the land giveaway of Veterans’ hallowed property and demand government’s full compliance and enforcement of the Land Grant Deed [...]
85,000 American Indian War Veterans Who Served in Vietnam are Heroes by David Bergengren SPRINGFIELD – A tribute to American Indian veterans was the centerpiece of yesterday’s 30th annual Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony at Court Square. Guest speaker Leonard FourHawks, who joined the U.S. Navy at age 17 and served in the Korean War, wove a narrative [...]
BARRY WENDELL’S ACCOUNT OF A MONTH IN A WAR SOME OF US STILL REMEMBER So there I was, minding my own business, when everything I knew as normal went straight to hell. It was late march of ‘68 and we were called to take a mountain top where some other outfit supposedly just got thrown off. I’ve just recently [...]
A Message from the California Alliance for Families & Children We all know how important it is to support the men and women in the Military and National Guard, whose selfless service is protecting our country and our safety. Unfortunately, while these brave men and women of are Armed Forces are confronting our enemies abroad, they [...]
Words to remember about the USASubmitted by David Jackson, a Canadian When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of ‘empire building’ by George Bush. Powell answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of [...]
A Renewal Tour of Duty by Paul Newell, GreenRecovery.org The ”renewal tour of duty" is a duty to yourself. You have given your pound of flesh perceived as duty. Now you have a duty to yourself. That duty is to regroup with your energies your thoughts and your shattered soul. These are what I call [...]
Vets are struggling to find work, and America needs to help IF YOU HAVE BEEN in an airport recently you may have been treated to the heartwarming sound of public applause directed at America’s uniform-clad soldiers returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. Now, we need to extend that appreciation to a practical need: jobs. Why don’t [...]
FINALLY SAW THE BATTLE OF HADITHA AND READ THE ARTICLE ON PHONY MEDALS BELOW, TIME TO BLOG BY G DUFF The movie itself, if I am not Roger Ebert, was realistic, cheap and without merit. If it showed how the Marine Corps of today works, how people are trained and how they behave, despite the [...]
Man poses as Vietnam war hero, Dupes New York for 40 years, gets caught A New Yorker who for 40 years passed himself off as Vietnam war hero who had been decorated for extreme gallantry was sentenced to community service Wednesday after being outed as a fraud. According to prosecutors, Louis Lowell McGuinn claimed to have [...]
Wounded in Iraq, Minnesota athlete Melissa Stockwell finds her strength again, competing for the Paralympic swim team. by Rachel Blount Left, Melissa Stockwell, who lost her left leg in the Iraq war, listened to her coach’s advice after a workout Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center. She took up swimming during her rehabilitation and [...]
An Iraq war veteran is suing Playboy magazine over an article that concludes he killed a fellow soldier is firing back at the author’s claims of accuracy, court papers show.by Bill Hetherman, The Associated Press Mark Boal’s "The Real Cost of War" was published in Playboy in March 2007. Boal also wrote a related article in [...]
Why hasn’t the Department of Defense conducted a complete investigation into the attack on the USS Liberty? Left, the flag that flew during the air attack. This was the second of three flags that flew during the attack. As we approach another anniversary of the USS Liberty’s assault by Israel, it is important to remember these courageous [...]
A Futuristic Nightmare That Just Might Come True by Nick Turse Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it could be a reality, if a current Pentagon project comes to fruition. Right now, researchers are already growing insects with electronics [...]
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