Biography
Maj. Denise Nichols, Vietnam era and Gulf War veteran, retired nurse, MSN, retired US Air Force Flight Nurse Clinical specialist in cardio-vascular nursing, served on the nursing faculty of several universities around the country.
Denise has been active in research and advocacy in the areas of Gulf War Illness and Agent Orange.
Denise has testified before congress many times, has been interviewed nationally and internationally and is an outspoken advocate for Americas veterans.
Navy Female Veteran with children desperate during the Holidays, need a Christmas Miracle!
December 24th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
The National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition will be holding their annual board meeting and Lunch Celebration that kicks off the activities that takes place during Veterans’ Day Activities.
November 4th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Vet News | Read More »
One in four veterans from the gulf war are affected minimally. That number is old and current data shows that number has continued to climb to over 1 in 3 at least have submitted claims from the Gulf War 1990-91.
October 18th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
The citizens of the US gets all energized to a case in Florida regarding the death of a toddler.
July 5th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Every day I deal with fellow veterans of the gulf war 90-91 and it is so difficult. It is difficult because each of us that stood up early in the 90′s after coming home ill, knew we had to do what we do, not just for ourselves but because we truly believed in caring for our fellow veteran.
June 28th, 2011 | Posted in Legislation,Politics | Read More »
The Representatives in DC offices need to be told to give priority to Gulf War Illnesses Research on the DOD Appropriations Bill now before them on the floor of the House for Congressional Direct Medical Research for Gulf War Illness Research Program and find these veterans help in the form of true diagnostic work and treatment.
June 25th, 2011 | Posted in Government,Politics | Read More »
Veterans are finding new skills and new methods to information share. Gulf war veterans and Gulf War era veterans are developing projects to collect and share information via Facebook. The project http://polldaddy.com/s/770F1DBB56742059 is one example. Veterans are asking for assistnace to get the word out to their fellow veterans.
June 17th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
The specifics hidden in the DOD Appropriations Bill for Medical Research. Military members and veterans need to have part in the conversations of funding on DOD medical Research. We dug deep and look at one area to discuss and to become informed of the details and basis for decisions.
June 15th, 2011 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Will the House of Representatives, Defense Appropriations Committee remember the veterans of the gulf war on Tuesday vote and honor those that have died from gulf war illnesses? Obits of these veterans from 20 yrs ago for just the time since Memorial Day are highlighted
June 13th, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
The US House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee vote on Tuesday for the DOD FY12 Appropriations bill may signal true abandonment to the Gulf War (1990-91) veterans that suffer from Gulf War Illness. This is a stark contrast to the reccomendation of the National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine.
June 13th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
The effort to get a Force Multiplier for Gulf War Veterans is gaining strength through Community Building on Facebook.
June 11th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
Veterans Today has encouraged gulf war veterans to set up face book pages for their gulf war 90-91 Desert Storm by service branch/and specific units……gulfwar/desertstorm/specific unit.
June 7th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
As we remember prisoners of wars and missing in action and those that gave their all, their very lives in war. Let us remember also the veterans- the Atomic Veterans, the Agent Orange Veterans, the Gulf War illness veterans, the Burn Pits and veterans who are ill from OIF and OEF.
May 30th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War,History | Read More »
Today has been a sad day but the battle is not over! If the VSO’s would express themselves in unison and if the veterans and civilians continue the battle for a few more days maybe the Representative of WW1 will lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
March 10th, 2011 | Posted in History,World War I | Read More »
Below is the latest support issued by a person of note. WE here at Veterans Today are astonished that the Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader are blocking this honor from occuring. We wonder where are all the Veterans’ Sevice Organizations on this issue. It seems they are strangely quiet on this issue. Where are their statements for the record. Will they be there for the last WW2, Korean War, or Vietnam Veteran? It is the end of time to recognize each of the veterans that served in WW1. Frank Buckles is just a representative of all the WW1 veterans, your grand parents, or great grand parent. But it is our last chance to remember their legacy! To remember the war that was to end all wars.
March 10th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
We want to continue to honor our Gulf War Veterans and recognize their early deaths, it has only been 20 years since the Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm. WE are concerned that they are dying too early and still call for national registries of diagnosed illness deaths and the undiagnosed illnesses. This data could prove helpful to health care providers, medical researchers, and the veterans and their families in being proactive in their health concerns.
March 10th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
To Honor Rosa Parks but not to honor our Veterans is a slap in the face of every Veteran that Ever Served! It is after all the House and Senate and their votes that send us to War! Please all keep the phone calls, emails, and faxes going, this is a war we can and must win! A war of Recognition and Proper Honors.
March 8th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
It is 20 years since the Gulf War 1990-91, Operation Desert Storm(US), and our British Coalition Forces that are suffering with Gulf War Illness/es stood tall in London and welcomed the other coalition members that served and are also part of the unfolding health crisis of Post Gulf War Service. This crisis involved the largest ever number of veterans that have been affected by their service in the most Hazardous Toxic Soup of Environmental Exposures in any war.
March 4th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
I challenge the US Representatives and Senators to stand firm for Frank Buckles and to also pass a law that will in the future honor the last surving member of any war or conflict by having that member of the service to lay in the US Capitol just as any state funeral! It is the least you could do!
March 4th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
GULF WAR VETERANS 90-91 reuniting by using facebook does your unit from the gulf war 90-91 have a FB page? And is there a GW90-91/desert storm/State Page to gather in your states!
February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
VA RAC GWI MEETING FEB 28-MAR 1 in DC AGENDA AND DISCUSSION
February 25th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Again the ill Gulf War Veterans are the ones doing the outreach and getting the word out, it is a shame they don’t even provide grants for outreach work nor rooms for veterans to use when attending VA RAC GWI meetings. Nor do they encourage interaction and sharing of important health care providers and research being done at annual type meeting for Gulf War Researchers both Civilian and VA. Much less having Civilian and VA Providers also involved fully in caring for Gulf War Veterans. There is a need for these type meetings and meetings should be open to veterans. These meetings also need videoconferencing live and archived and available openly on the internet!
February 25th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Here is a chance for veterans to be in a controlled study with a highly respected physician and researcher. By the way this is one of the doctors that helped contribute their knowledge and be interviewed for the new book by Arnold Mann that will be available to be ordered next week. The book: THEY”RE POISONING US : From The Gulf War To The Gulf of Mexico, AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT again is expected to be available to order next week, VT will keep you informed on further developments.We encourage veterans to participate and help yourselves and your fellow veteran by doing so. We in the veteran community are advocating for each of you to get diagnostic and treatment trials that are good to you. You have to do your part and follow up and be a participant. Sometimes we also need controls that could be friends, family members, other veterans that are not ill and we encourage you to help also to find others that can serve as controls.
This is the second study in a couple of months that are new researchers that have asked us to get the word out.
Treatment trial for gulf war illness.
February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,PTSD | Read More »
H. R. 396: To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program under which the Secretaries make payments for certain treatments of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Legislation,Politics | Read More »
U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-2nd, has been selected by his colleagues on the full House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs as the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
This means he will serve as the highest-ranking Democrat on the subcommittee and work with the Subcommittee Chairman, U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio, to oversee and investigate matters pertaining to American veterans, according to a statement released by Donnelly’s office on Thursday.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
As we look at twenty years since the Gulf War 1990-91/Operation Desert Storm the writer has to wonder have we made headway? The writer wants the President, the VA, the DOD, the legislators both US Senators and Representatives to hear from the veterans that counted on our government to do the right thing morally and ethically. If we had really been tuned into the history of the veterans of World War 1, Atomic Veterans, and Agent Orange Veterans we would not have been so deceived. Maybe the All Volunteer Force would not have been reality. Maybe a draft would still be in affect. But the troops felt it a DUTY, A Sacred Duty to serve their country. They were well educated and trained. Many were college graduates, almost all had completed high school and had a beginning on college level education, in total a different profile than the Vietnam Veterans. Many had families with military traditions and service.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War,History | Read More »
The aim to tie the story of environmental hazards to all that have been concerned from the patient sufferers be it civilian or military, to the lead Senator that exposed the Plight of the Gulf War Veterans in 1994(Senator Reigle), to the doctors that cared to try to answer the needs despite government interference, to the researchers that are finally now being funded thanks to the Gulf War Veterans efforts, and to the government agencies that were to have our backs but that have interfered and delayed help to those that need it the most. This not a story about whiners, this is the investigative report that covers the science and the research that has taken over 20 years to finally have an awakening that millions are truly sufferring.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »
Depleted Uranium use since Operation Desert Storm is not just a health issue for Gulf War Veterans in the US but all coalition forces and endemic populations that are left to deal with the affects for billions of years. This is an international issue that has seen the UN and WHO involved.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in World | Read More »
How long does it take to get a decision to help a veteran that is alive, how many times back through the system to get the correct decision, and then how long does a surviving widow have to plead the case to fulfill the promises made to veterans by this government!
So I call now for sustained action by all veterans, their family members, their friends, and the citizens of this country…Show it through twitter activity every day!
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
This is the bill that has been introduced in the Senate it is a starting point for the Marines and their families that were stationed at Camp Lejune. VT encourages all to call their Senators in their DC offices and get them to know the veterans and the citizens that do care about their military and veterans demand action and at least the Senators more than 5 out of 100 should be on this bill now as cosponsors!
February 16th, 2011 | Posted in Legislation,Politics | Read More »
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