By Gina Friedholdtindy500.com Fisher House Site The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has united with Fisher House™ to salute America’s heroes during the Month of May. The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America’s military in their time of need. The program recognizes the special sacrifices of our men and women in uniform [...]
Names read aloud over 10 days by more than 300 volunteers RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Abts, Richard. Adamski, Walter. Ahlman, Enoch. The names are whisked away by the hot, gusting wind as soon as they are spoken, forgotten in the stream of the next name and the next name and the next name. Fuller, Addison. Fuller, [...]
by LT. Bobby Ross For the past ten years, I have been one of the main focus points by millions of Veterans, Active Duty Military, and their family and friends on Memorial Day. This is due to a little piece of writing I did ten years ago in my Nashville home and office at the [...]
by Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer America’s liberals stand betrayed. Their new president, the one they sweated to elect—-a brilliant, charismatic leader with a professional background in constitutional law—has transmogrified himself from the champion who denounced in his campaign the illegalities of the Bush White House into a president bent on their perpetuation. Liberals are stunned [...]
by Sandy Cook, Staff Writer There are 24 million veterans, some of whom belong to one or more of several thousand veterans’ organizations. Each one of those organizations has an agenda, and each one of those veterans has a world-view. We are largely ineffective because we can’t get past the sheer numbers of world-views, and [...]
IS A VETERAN ONLY A “VETERAN” WHEN HE IS ASKING FOR MONEY OR VOTING? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Twice a year the press discovers veterans. Photo crews go online to look for people to interview, parades or ceremonies to visit and something to fill time, fill space and move on. Veterans are “leftovers.” The [...]
“I believe that conducting business as usual because ‘that is the way we have always done it’ is not going to be successful in the future.” –Clarence Hill By Rees LLoyd Clarence Hill, Past Department of Florida Commander and candidate for National American Legion Commander, called on California Legionnaires to be creative and innovative [...]
by Jere Beery When most people think of the Supreme Court they think of the highest legal court in the land with absolute supremacy over all things legal. They envision a federal court consisting of 9 appointed judges assigned with hearing and ruling on issues that have failed to be resolved at the lower court [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – From parades to somber ceremonies and a moment of silence, Americans will recall the sacrifices of military members who paid the ultimate price for freedom on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25. “From May 23 to May 30, commemorative events at VA national cemeteries will present a sacred responsibility for employees and volunteers [...]
Richard Campbell Nursing Home veterans reflect on Memorial Day ANDERSON COUNTY — Flags line the shaded driveway leading to the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home. Inside, six veterans move their wheelchairs over the gray-and-blue-checked floor, assembling around a flag. They talk about the coming Memorial Day and what it means to them. Duncan Legarde [...]
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. “Oh my,” he said. He became choked up and tearful as he spoke of the wounded sailors, civilians, and other military personnel. It was easy to see that he had vivid memories of these past events. On Sunday after church, my wife, Sharon, often visits her mother at Oakwood Village, a retirement village [...]
“The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead.” Philip Atkinson Introduction by Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Two years ago, with Bush’s popularity crashing, www.familysecuritymatters.org, a partner/front for Dick Cheney’s Center for Security Policy, advocated [...]
By Gabe Ledeen (Veterans for Freedom) In its second major misstep with veterans in as many months, the Obama administration gave our representative organizations another opportunity to step up on our behalf and defend us from misguided government action. The meek response from the national leadership of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Iraq [...]
By Art Carden (Independent Institute fellow and a professor of economics and business at Rhodes College) One might think that "everyday low prices" for food would mean that people would eat much more–stuff themselves, even. So one would expect to see more obese folks in places where Wal-Mart does more business. Right? Think again. Research [...]
House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee: Oversight and Investigation, May 19, Gulf War Illness Research is Enough Being Done? The first testimony we shall examine is Statement of Lawrence Deyton, MSPH, MDChief Public Health and Environmental Hazards Officer,Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "At the direction of Congress, VA, in 2002 chartered the VA Research [...]
The Eleven General Orders of a Sentry (Navy and Coast Guard version) 1. To take charge of this post and all government property in view. 2. To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert, and observing everything that takes place within sight or hearing. 3. To report all violations [...]
Here are the other additions for Desert Storm Taps numbers 32 and 33 for month of May.Also One OIF OEF listed FYI Ages 37( on previous May report),54, 2 Army( one on previous report), Merchant marine age not given OIF OEF suddenly at home 45, USA, suddenly at home, army ROLL CALL- SALUTE_TAPS 32. Moyel T. [...]
Gulf War Veterans Listen up! ALL I have two or three more obits I am working on again early age group! Just in a couple of days time period. Again 39 years old sudden death! Please all I do not have many details just the obits but something is happening. These are our youngest 39-18 = [...]
CRIMINALS FROM WITHIN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE INTERNET “STOOGES” POST DEFENSE OF THEIR CRIMES, AT ORDERS OF MICHAL STEEL By Gordon Duff EDITOR and STAFF WRITER The continual banging note goes on: Keep Dick Cheney out of jail for his crimes and put the daily “talking points” from the Republican National [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Senate Committee Approves Seven Veterans-Related Bills. 2. Obama Not Expected To Welcome Rolling Thunder But Shinseki Will. 3. Tuscaloosa VAMC To Modernize Part Of Campus. 4. Injured Soldiers Respond Positively To Horse Therapy. 5. Alabama Governor To Sign Veterans Cemetery Bill. 6. VA Opening New Facilities In Vermont, New Hampshire. 7. Cleland Nominated To [...]
By Mike Griffith, Staff Writer Recently we’ve seen articles on Veterans Today that have dishonestly juxtaposed disturbing pictures of apparent prisoner mistreatment with sensational headlines and claims about the CIA’s interrogation methods in the war on terror, especially in relation to the CIA’s waterboarding of three high-value Al Qaeda terrorists (Nashiri, KSM, and Zubaydah), even [...]
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has provided $215 million in competitive funding to improve services specifically designed for Veterans in rural and highly rural areas. “This funding signals a substantial expansion of services addressing the health care needs of our rural Veterans,” Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki said. “These funds will [...]
Gulf War Smoke and Fires how can any scientist or doctor say that there was no problem? Something is certainly wrong when we can talk about burn pits but not this. Picture from Matt Letterman Related Posts:Connecting the Military DotsCIA – DOD – Panetta and the Hidden TruthSons of the Fallen from Iraq and [...]
UNRAVELING THE WEB OF DECEIT Earnest A. Canning (4th Infantry Division, Vietnam 1968) “The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system — whether political, religious or economic — that is rejected by large numbers of people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by [...]
P.O. Box 300549, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 www.mfso.org • mfso@mfso.org • 617-983-0710 When our local neo-con community holds its (not ours’ but its) Memorial Day observances the theme will be World War Two despite our city (well really a town) erecting one of the nation’s first War on Terror Memorials years before the Global War [...]
This is part one of several parts to be posted on Desert Storm Veterans Diaries- True Life Factual Reflections of The War After The War. Postings by Denise Nichols with permission of each Veteran. Send your submission to DSNurse1@yahoo.com. I want to tell your stories to highlight the problems we are having. You each [...]
DRS Sustainment Systems, Inc, Saint Louis, Mo. was awarded on May 20, 2009 a $103,855,708 firm-fixed-price contract for 274 each heavy equipment transporter system M1000 semi-trailers. Work is to be performed in Saint Louise, Mo., with an estimated completion date of May 30, 2012. One bid was solicited with one bid received. TACOM-Warren, AMSCC-TAC-ATBC, [...]
Memorial Day Flag Display in Houston. The local Houston chapter of Veterans for Peace (VFP-12) will be putting up their annual Memorial Day Flag Display honoring those who have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan along with a special section for those service members who have taken their own lives. They are asking for [...]
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