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Augusta, Georgia Veterans dig archeology project Chillicothe, Ohio Health District expands H1N1 vaccination clinic Durango, Colorado Colorado offers special benefits to veterans Beltrami County, Minnesota Hard sell for Beltrami County veterans home Kerhonskon, New York Bill aims to close loophole in veterans’ medical care Salisbury, North Carolina Bikers’ ride benefits Paralyzed Veterans of America [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
URGENT CALL FOR HELP I PICKED UP THIS COMMENT FROM MY SEPT 21 2009 ARTICLE I AM ASKING PLEASE SPC DENNIS G please email me so we can get in touch by phone!!! DSNURSE1@yahoo.com is my email I will be up checking for you. Get me a number I can reach you at….I will call [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
PART 1 AN EXCELLENT EXPLANATION OF HOW THE "WAR ON TERROR" IS A PLOY BY OUR GOVERNMENTS AGAINST THEIR OWN PEOPLE PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 Related Posts:No Related Posts
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
Dr. Kamal S. Kalsi stands Thursday, June 4, 2009, near Saint Joseph’s hospital in Paterson, N.J., where he works. By The Associated Press RIVERDALE — The U.S. Army will make an exception to a decades-old rule and allow a Sikh doctor from Morris County to serve without removing his turban and cutting his hair, an [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Military | Read More »
NORTH VIETNAMESE TAKEOVER OF VIETNAM PART OF NIXON, KISSINGER PLAN TO RIG THE 1972 ELECTION A STORY OF DISHONOR AND BETRAYAL By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Declassified documents and tapes now show every single word on how the Vietnam War was ended was a lie. Henry Kissinger and President Nixon openly planned the fall [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
Slate Cheney Reaction TomDispatch What the U.S. Military Can’t Do The Nation In Afghanistan: High Cost, Low Odds Consortium News Obama v. Military-Industrial Complex Jim Hightower Investors Get Theirs, Workers Get Stiffed Related Posts:No Related Posts
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
By Jeff Huber at-Largely Tom Shanker of the New York Times tells us that NATO defense ministers have given their “broad endorsement” to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s plan to escalate the Afghanistan war into a full-Monty counter insurgency effort. NATO defense ministers love Afghanistan; it justifies their phony-baloney jobs. Like much of the U.S. military, NATO [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
Artist hopes to paint 100 personnel who served in Iraq, Afghanistan Retired Army Sgt. Richard Yarosh has gotten used to the stares. His face is blanketed in knotty scar tissue. His nose tip is missing. His ears are gone, as is part of his right leg. His fingers are permanently bent and rigid. All is [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
Holyoke, Massachusetts Attendant denies theft from veterans Shreveport Louisiana Veterans get eyeful of old stomping ground Chicago, Illinois Bill will merge North Chicago VA, Great Lakes clinic Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Some Veterans Call For Metcalfe’s Resignation St Louis, Missouri Veterans may share concerns at St. Charles listening post Redding California Stand Down volunteers struggle to replace [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
In today’s New York Times we have Vice President Biden obviously tiring of the former GOP Administrations’ views of virtually anything. Here is the article with a short excerpt: "In the latest exchange between old and new administrations, Mr. Biden rebuffed his predecessor’s criticism about President Obama’s handling of Afghanistan as “absolutely wrong.” And Mr. [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
Veterans of EPA Superfund sites are at risk for bladder cancer from organic solvent exposure. A simple and non-evasive test is available to detect bladder cancer. (Somerdale, NJ) – Those that served and were exposed to toxic chemicals have a critical need to know what chemicals they were exposed to and access to medical screening [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
I am usually pretty serious on this web site, but every now and then I like to lighten things up. We are people you know and people need to take things a little light sometimes! So here we go. I submit these news stories to tickle your curiousity and lighten things up a bit. We [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Read More »
No. 829-09 ——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY The Lockheed Martin Corporation, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $853,305,629 cost-plus-incentive-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPIF/CPFF) contract to provide support in the Trident II (D5) missile production and deployed system support (C4 and D5) in an undefinitized contract action. The contract type will be CPIF/CPFF for this contract [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is doing all she can to get full coverage for all Viet Nam veterans who have been affected by Agent Orange. She could use your help. If you would like to help her, here is her website address and the article concerning Agent Orange care she is trying to secure for Viet [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
We just recieved this information from Applebee’s Resaurants. All U.S. veterans and active duty military with proof of current or former military service will eat free at all Applebee’s nationwide on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. Proof of service includes: U.S. Uniform Services Identification Card, U.S. Uniform Services Retired Identification Card, Current Leave and [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Support the Troops | Read More »
"IF BUSH IS SUCH A COWBOY (THOUGH TERRIFIED OF HORSES), WHY CAN’T HE FIND A 6 FOOT 6 ARAB ON A CAMEL WITH A DYALISIS MACHINE?" WITH BIN LADENS DEATH CONFIRMED BY TOP SOURCES, FBI, PAKISTANI INTELLIGENCE, IS THE "ZOMBIE BIN LADEN" HOAX A "WEEKEND AT BERNIES" BY KARL ROVE OR A TRAGIC SCAM THAT HAS KILLED [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »

CURRENT WARNINGS FROM THE FDA Health Editor note: It does not take long for "get- rich- quick- sharks" to circle when there is a health crisis. Carol Ware Duff MSN, BA, RN. Article posted October 23, 2009. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing consumers of—and protecting them against—potential harm associated with unapproved products claiming to [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Yesterday, President Obama signed into law the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act (H.R. 1016) mandating Congress approves the health care budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at least one year in advance. The bill is widely seen by veterans advocates as critical to meet the needs of America’s 23-million veterans, as two major wars [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Today is the final day for public comment on proposed VA rules the VA says will streamline PTSD diagnosis and broaden the scope of circumstances under which a veteran proves his combat experience. As with the current, contrived PTSD diagnosis, many see the rule as designed to place the veteran at the whim of the [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Obama Signs Advance VA Funding Bill. 2. VA, Other Agencies Thanked For Improving Service Delivery To Certain Wounded Vets. 3. Three Illnesses On Revised List Of Possible Agent Orange Service-Connected Diseases. 4. Grant To Pay For $32 Million Expansion Of Calverton National Cemetery. 5. Odierno Praises Shinseki. 6. VA Doctors, Nurses Meet With [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Bowling Green, Kentucky Thank veterans for all they’ve done Washington, DC President Obama signs advance VA funding bill Toledo, Ohio Lake Schools raises $4,400 for honor flight veterans Springfield, Missouri Missouri Veterans Commission Holds Listening Post La Crosse, Wisconsin "One stop shop" benefit fair held for veterans in the La Crosse area Related Posts:No [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
Today’s news in the New York Times and the Washington Post is, as always, enlightening. It shows how far we have come from tribalism and how far we have not come. We will start with the Post in our daily jog through the information morass. Lets open our dive into the waters of daily education [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Beirut October 23, 1983: Truck Loaded With TNT Wrecks Headquarters of a Marine Unit By Thomas L. Friedman The New York Times October 23, 1983 Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 23 — A suicide terrorist driving a truck loaded with TNT blew up an American Marine headquarters at the Beirut airport today, killing at least 161 marines [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies Funny man’s anything-for-a-laugh career built on pies to the face Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83. Sales died at Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
MILITARY AND VETERANS AGAINST HEALTH CARE BILLS PASS THIS TO ALL MILITARY RETIREES To my fellow warriors as we are the younger retired Marines, this topic is hot. I want the best for our buck. PASS THIS TO ALL MILITARY RETIREES This is true. It is on pages 77, 172, 218, and 434. You have to [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
“For this reason did We prescribe to the children of Israel that whoever slays a soul, unless it be for man-slaughter or for mischief in the land, it is though he slew all men; and whoever keeps it alive, it is tough he kept alive all men;” Al-Maida 32 by Raja Mujtaba, International Correspondent – Pakistan [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
When your name is forever linked to an act of history-derailing domestic terror your billions won’t save you from the place in history reserved for a select group of monsters. by Frank Schaeffer…The repentant right wing activist applauds the White House for holding Fox ‘News’ accountable, charges they ‘seem to be trawling for assassins’… President [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
Amid charges from former Vice-President Dick Cheney and other Republicans that the Obama administration is taking too long to make a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan, Correspondent Fred Kaplan of Slate says that the Army’s claims to have exceeded its 2009 recruiting goals have been exaggerated. The numbers are very fishy, and it [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
by Bryant Jordan – After seven years of forced silence, a government whistleblower is opening up on what she learned while working as a Turkish translator for the FBI in the wake of 9/11. In sworn testimony to attorneys on Aug. 8, Sibel Edmonds described a Pentagon where key personnel helped pass defense secrets to [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
OCTOBER DESERT STORM/GULF WAR TAPS REPORT Half of the twenty deaths were under the age of 50! Count is 20 so far for October. Age Groups: 30′s -3, 40′s-7, 50′s -6, 60′s -3, 70s -1. Military Service count: Army- 4, Army Reserve 1, USMC 5, USAF 4, NG 1, Army National Guard 1, USN [...]
October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Gulf War | Read More »