by Donna Teresa I have always believed that music has certain healing powers. Music has never failed to help lift me up, even during the darkest of times. I am an avid music listener and a fan of different types of music. I can honestly say that I never paid much attention to Christian music [...]
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis. is being awarded a maximum $1,121,351,999 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery, sole source contract for heavy and medium tactical trucks support. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are All DoD and civilian agencies. There were originally two proposals solicited with one response. Contract funds will expire at the [...]
From The New York Times Reviewed by Michiko Kakutani In the months before the American invasion of Iraq, among the few members of the foreign policy establishment to speak out forcefully about the dangers of going to war unilaterally against Saddam Hussein were Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first President Bush, and Zbigniew [...]
By Chris Hedges Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza-the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows of mutilated corpses, the wailing mothers and wives, the crowds of terrified Palestinians not knowing where to flee, the hospitals so overburdened and out of supplies [...]
VA Providing Florida Veterans with Disability Verification Letters for First Time For State and Local Tax Exemptions WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it has sent out disability verification letters for the first time to more than 265,000 Florida veterans and surviving spouses who may be eligible for state or local [...]
Construction to Begin Early 2009 WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded more than $2.8 million to a Jamestown, Calif., contractor to develop the first phase of the Bakersfield National Cemetery in Arvin, Calif. “With the start of construction on this new national shrine, we move ahead on our promise to the [...]
By Elise Castelli The Defense Department violated the rights of a veteran who was seeking an entry-level, civilian auditing job when it decided to hire two nonveteran candidates instead, a federal court has ruled. In a Dec. 24 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that an Office of Personnel Management [...]
HARTFORD HOSPITAL INVITES OIF/OEF VETERANS TO PARTICIPATE IN A STUDY TO HELP FELLOW VETERANS Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut is investigating a state-of-the art technology designed to assist OIF/OEF Veterans with post-deployment stress. The study combines Virtual Reality with an effective program for post-deployment stress that is approved to be grade A by the Veterans [...]
by Robert Van Boven On Friday, December 19th, millions of Americans were exposed on the "Dr. Phil" show to the antithesis of service many of our wounded warriors have received upon their return to civilian life. The honorable Rep. Bob Filner, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, decried that "the American people assume [...]
DoD /IG finds that America Supports You.mil misused tax dollars for 2006/2007 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl by Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired The Pentagon PR Firm, Susan Davis International (SDI) helped create a partnership with the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl organizers for the America Supports You.mil (ASY) Program, SDI tasks included [...]
by Lillian Galedo What an incredible year! Even in the midst of catastrophic economic worries, there is a sense of hope and a belief that we will change this country. We need to harness this energy for change to achieve full equity for our Filipino WWII veterans, support low-wage Filipino workers in these harsh economic [...]
EXHIBIT FEATURING EMERGENCY ROOM FROM AIR FORCE HOSPITAL IN BALAD, IRAQ OPENS AT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE Washington, D.C. – The National Museum of Health and Medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (NMHM), at Congressional initiation and with support from the U.S. Air Force, has opened a new exhibit that offers [...]
Quite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve? By Robert Fisk We’ve got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don’t care any more — providing we don’t offend the Israelis. It’s not clear how many of the [...]
Israel’s Onslaught: One of Its Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians in 60 Years By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Update: The Gaza death toll has passed 375 Amid worldwide protests, Israel is continuing its bombing campaign against Gaza for the third consecutive day and preparing to launch a possible ground invasion. Following months of a crippling blockade, [...]
By Tom Philpott Too many beneficiaries of the military direct-care health system still can’t get timely appointments, or reach doctors after hours, or establish a close family-doctor relationship with a single military physician or group.For these reasons and more , Army Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Elder Granger, deputy director of TRICARE and a principal advisor within [...]
WASHINGTON – Thirty percent of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are veterans – the second highest ranking among cabinet departments after the Department of Defense — and nearly 8 percent of VA employees are service-connected disabled veterans. But VA intends to increase the number of disabled veterans who obtain employment in its [...]
Some Veterans to See Another Travel Reimbursement Increase WASHINGTON – Service-disabled and low-income veterans who are reimbursed for travel expenses while receiving care at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities will see an increase in their payments beginning January 9. A recently passed law allows VA to cut the amount it must withhold from their mileage [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. Expected Influx Of Veterans Said To Require Colleges To Adapt. 2. Wyoming Veteran Deals With TBI. 3. VA Program Is First Specializing In Training Nurses In Wound Care. 4. Washington State Veterans Seek More VA Facilities. 5. Three VA Outpatient Clinics To Open In Arkansas. 6. VA Medical Center Honors Tennessee Hospice. 7. VA [...]
By Jennifer Calhoun A recent brouhaha over closing the emergency room at Salisbury’s Veterans Affairs hospital has some critics worried that unwarranted changes could be coming to veterans’ health care. In September, the Salisbury hospital planned to eliminate its emergency, inpatient and surgical services. Under the proposal, veterans needing emergency services would be directed to [...]
WHAT VETERANS TODAY TELLS THE WORLD: DEFINING AMERICA By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER VETERANS TODAY Most of the world defines America by CNN, Fox News and TV shows depicting crime and violence. The messages we send the world, be it isolationism and hate from Rush Limbaugh or our news, always slanted, first to the right, [...]
Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded a $221,690,616 modification to a previously awarded firm fixed price contract (N00019-07-C-0060) to exercise options to procure 96 MV-22 and CV-22 AE1107C engines, and 1-year of support services. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Ind., and is expected to be completed in December 2011. Contract funds will not [...]
DOD/IG Finding: Susan Davis International was paid by America Supports You.mil more than $165,000 in tax payer dollars to put on the Intrepid Concert held on May 28, 2005, at the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum as part of Fleet Week 2005 in New York City. The concert featured country-western entertainers Chely Wright and the [...]
DOD/IG finding – America Supports You.mil (ASY) misused tax payer dollars to pay for ASY Special Events ASY paid the Pentagon PR Firm, Susan Davis International (SDI) $3.6 million (or more) to organize ASY special [propaganda] events to attract media coverage to promoteor “brand” the program. [Translation of promote or brand is PROPAGANDA.] Pentagon investigators [...]
By Joshua Holland There is something approaching a consensus that the Paulson Plan — also known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP — was a boondoggle of an intervention that’s flailed from one approach to the next, with little oversight and less effect on the financial meltdown. But perhaps even more troubling than [...]
By Sami Abdel-Shafi, Independent UK I am safe, and yet I feel like a walking dead person. Everything around me shows it. It is hard to write something of any coherence while exposed to cold winter air and to the smell that lingers after the detonation of Israeli bombs. They must have been massive. During [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. VA Focusing On Addressing Mental Trauma Of Returning Soldiers. 2. Salisbury VA Hospital’s Emergency Room Closing Delayed. 3. To Correct Error, VA Will Release Payments To Veterans’ Surviving Spouses. 4. Hawaiians To Be Involved In VA. 5. Fund Seeks To Help Veterans With TBI. 6. Economy’s Problems Causes Concerns About Services For Next [...]
ARE WE AN EMPIRE? AND IF SO, DOES ANYONE CARE? by Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.) – B.A. B.S. M.Ed. M.A. M.A. Staff Writer for Veterans Today The short answer here is yes, we are an empire. We more than meet the definition. The really important part to consider is (1) should we care? and (2) [...]
by Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.) A couple of years ago someone asked me if I still thought about Vietnam. I nearly laughed in their face. How do you stop thinking about it? Every day for the last thirty-eight years, I wake up with it, and go to bed with it. But this is what [...]
America Supports You.mil Bought Mainstream Media Support in violation of DOD ethics rules. This is the continuation of an in-depth, multi-post expose on what the Department of Defense Inspector General found distasteful about America Supports You.mil operations. To read the introduction and earlier post on this topic go to these LINKS: AmericaSupportsYou.mil Survives Investigation by [...]
Mortar round explodes near his living quarters on Christmas Day TRENTON, N.J. – A prominent New Jersey doctor has been killed in Iraq, the Defense Department said Friday. Maj. John P. Pryor was a well-known trauma surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. According to the Pentagon, Pryor died Christmas Day when a [...]
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