This is from Senator Webb’s web site this morning. Here is the article. I am proud to call this man my Senator today. Thank the Living God. Finally! A voice of reason has arrived. CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.) Related Posts:No Related Posts
People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. The Vietnamese lost four million civilians and the Iraqis to date have lost more than one million civilians as a result of U.S. aggression. Such losses—mainly of unarmed women and children—are [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. New GI Bill Delays Said To Be Causing Problems For Veterans. 2. House To Consider Fiscal 2010 Stopgap Funds. 3. VA Praised For Proposing New Rule On PTSD Compensation. 4. VA Caregivers Highlight Services Available To Returning Vets. 5. VAMC Director Touts Services Available To Vets. 6. [...]
On AOL News today, which is normally an outlet for Associated Press and other news organization releases, there is an interesting article by columnist David Corn. He writes for Politics Daily. It involves a reading of a book by a speech writer, Matt Lattimer, who is in awe of Donald Rumsfeld who is an old boss of [...]
David Brooks has written an editorial in today’s New York Times called "The Afghan Imperative". He is a smart guy, very conservative and well read. I just don’ agree with him. The American Legion, of which I am a member believe it or not, has come out officially and supported more troops for Afghanistan. The news [...]
STAND TOGETHER FOR YOUR BROTHER AND SISTER VETERANS! Friday -Today thru Tuesday PM Gulf War Veterans Asking ALL to Help! URGENT TIME IS NOW! Starting Friday - TODAY- AM DC time and all day! Then All Day Monday! and ALL Day TUESDAY! WE need Calls to all 100 Senators! WE Need phones, faxes, Emails Overwhelming! The Senate [...]
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What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. VA’s IG Concerned About Disability Claims Processing Time. 2. VA Says It Has Processed Less Than Half Of Pending GI Bill Claims. 3. Lawmakers Question Appropriateness Of VA Bonuses.4. Forum Discusses Support For Wounded Service Members. 5. Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Hoping For Boost From Military Vote. 6. Head Of VHA Suicide Prevention Program [...]
VA Honors Eye Researchers with Olin Teague Award WASHINGTON – Two researchers for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Palo Alto, Calif., were recognized with the Olin Teague Award for their research in vision issues that led to improved eye and vision injury examination techniques for Veterans. "VA has identified these techniques as ‘best [...]
Participation in the New Post-9/11 GI Bill Continues to Grow Over $50 million Already Paid to Schools and Students WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that it has provided certificates of eligibility to nearly 200,000 applicants for the new Post-9/11 GI Bill. Over 61,000 payments totaling over $50 million to schools [...]
URGENT GULF WAR VETERANS MUST ACT NOW! ALL VETERANS, VETERAN SUPPORTERS NEED TO TAKE ACTION! How many times are you all going to remain quiet we need Every Veteran and veteran organization on this NOW! THIS IS SOS big time! WE have been losing lately if you have not noticed VA killed UT Southwestern Research [...]
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? The gagged whistleblower goes on the record. By Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between [...]
Another Connection to Organophosphate Poisoning and Neurological Damage Connection to Gulf War Illness Questioned UT Southwestern Medical and VA Need to Work Out Problems When you read about bleed air and testing of organophosphates think gulf war illness and connections to neuromuscular diseases. This news is hot off the press in UK. And should be [...]
WITH THE 9/11 COMMISSION RESCINDING THEIR OWN REPORT 9/11 DEBUNKING MACHINE IS NOW OUR "SMOKING GUN" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER When 9/11 Commission Chief Counsel, John Farmer, released his book, The Ground Truth, debunking his own 9/11 commission report and was supported by Chairman Thomas Kean and commission member Senator Bob Kerrey with no dissent, the cover [...]
Airing interviews with former Congressman Mark Siljander within the same week, the the world’s largest Christian and Muslim television broadcast networks reflect broad, national appeal of his message of understanding and acceptance. Great Falls, VA September 21, 2009 – Mark Siljander has the unusual experience of appearing on both Al Jazeera’s current events show Min [...]
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund has received its largest individual donation ever–The Heisley Family Foundation has pledged $2.5 million to build the Education Center at The Wall. This is also the largest donation received for the Education Center from an individual or family foundation. The Heisley family of Chicago has several personal connections to the Vietnam [...]
BY KARA SPAK AND ROSEMARY SOBOL Staff Reporters A 53-year-old man who held police at bay in an eight hour standoff Wednesday at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center was being questioned in the fatal shooting of his elderly parents. “My brother is not a monster,” said Mansa Kenyatta, 55, the older brother of the [...]
From: Chairman Bob Filner House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, the House Veterans’ Affairs Health Subcommittee, led by Chairman Michael Michaud (D-ME), held a hearing to assess whether the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) meets the pharmaceutical needs of veterans. Specifically, the hearing focused on the VA national [...]
The Bank of America in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has lost the money from the Cherokee County Council that it had in accounts. The reason that the Bank of America lost the money was that it refused to allow flags to be flown in front of its bank. The flags were for a fallen Marine killed [...]
A Foreign Policy Coup D’Etat By Sherwood Ross, staff Writer The Pentagon has virtually replaced the State Department in making U.S. foreign policy, The Nation magazine charges. “Quietly, gradually—and inevitably, given the weight of its colossal budget and imperial writ—the Pentagon has all but eclipsed the State Department at the center of US foreign policy-making,” [...]
by Karen St. John, Staff Writer To the die-hard fans in Massachusetts and those of us scattered across the nation, good news about the Boston Red Sox is not a surprise. In fact, it is downright expected when our team has so many players with awesome skills and fierce determination. But even I, a steady [...]
In today’s Washington Post there is an article concerning General McChrystal’s report on Afghanistan and whether or not the White House will take it seriously. The story is here. To be fair to the general, something I am usually not concerned with after having spent an almost twenty five year Coast Guard career being a [...]
August 09 Taps Gulf War 90-91 Veterans A minimum of 45 Veterans of Operation Desert Storm died in August 09. These are collated from online obituaries and do not include all deaths. Small towns and rural areas are probably not being picked up. Of these 9 were Navy Veterans, 1 was a Navy Reserve, 26 [...]
Critical Solutions International, Inc., Dallas, Texas, was awarded on Sept. 21, 2009 a $259,877,400 firm-fixed-priced-contract for 150 each vehicle mounted mine detector without mine detonation trailer set. Work is to be performed in Gauteng, South Africa., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 2012. One bid was solicited with one bid received. TACOM-Warren, AMSCC-TAC-ADCB, Warren, [...]
INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KNOW TO HELP YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER TO BETTER CARE FOR YOU BY CAROL WARE DUFF MSN, BA, RN INFORMATION AND FORMS TO MAKE YOUR NEXT HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENT BETTER SERVE YOU ARE THESE FORMS ARE LOCATED ON THE HOME PAGE OF www.veteranstoday.com At a VA Healthcare facility, you will have a limited [...]
We get cartoons from various sources, but only post the most humorous. Couldn’t pass this one up, for it is just so timely. Robert L. HanafinMajor, U.S. Air Force-RetiredGS-14, U.S. Civil Service-Retired Related Posts:No Related Posts
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Report: VA Appears To Be Doing More To Prevent Suicides. 2. US Navy Reviewing How It Handled Hazing Of Gay Sailor. 3. Woodruffs Hope To Focus Attention On Vets’ Brain Trauma. 4. Man Fires Gun Inside Jesse Brown VAMC. 5. Costie To Direct Pershing VAMC. 6. Vets Group Lobbying For Merchant Mariners Compensation [...]
In today’s Washington Post there is an article by Ann Tyson about the new rules of engagement for American war fighters in Afghanistan under the direction of General McChrystal and how the rules place them in harm’s way. This is a must read for any veteran. This is insane. The article is here. I won’t comment [...]
From International Network of Independent Recording Artists We are entering the home stretch. September 25 and 26, 2009 we will be in the Warehouse Studio (Owned by Canadian Rock Star, Bryan Adams) cutting the final track for the CD 4 The Troops, "Independents For Independence". The cover and CD insert is in the final design [...]
by Kent Basson Hello. About two years ago, I started a website called www.OddShoeFinder.com. The site allows users to post free ads for their single shoes and mismatched pairs of shoes. Someone suggested that I contact you to see if you wanted to help get the word out to the millions of people who would [...]
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