I am on a road trip back home to where I spent most of my life. This trip back home was to drive my daughter back so that she can start a new job and her new life as an adult on her own. She is not alone and will be back with what is left of my family, which got me thinking about how much can change in a year.
New Gulf War Illness Research funded from 2010 appropriated/authorized funds. Review of four studies funded in Canada, Wisconsin, California, and Colorado.
When we read about all the advances being made, the programs the DOD has come up with to “help” the troops recover, there is always something that does not add up because at the same time we read about what they are doing, somewhere hidden from our eyes, problems lurk in the darkness like a bad horror movie.
Staff Sgt. David Senft tried to commit suicide twice but he was redeployed anyway. Now he is gone and the Army is investigating his death. Maybe a good place to start is with the person who decided he should go back to combat no matter what was going on with him? Why they keep doing [...]
An “expert” just came out and set us back 40 years on PTSD. He thinks there is no effective treatment and that time will take over. In other words, “get over it” leaving veterans to think there is no hope again. Here we have a major line of BS from an “expert” on PTSD.
When you tell a Marine they need to do yoga or meditate, they think you’re the one with the problem. Yet when they understand they had to train their mind and body to respond to combat situations, they must now train their mind and body to relax again, they get it. Stress and anxiety is [...]
Right after 9-11 I contacted Jonathan Shay, well known author and working with veterans for the VA in Boston. He was trying to help me get my book, For the Love of Jack, His War/My Battle by Kathie Costos, published without much luck.
Hello Veterans, my name is Max. I am 14 years old and won 3rd place for CSPAN STUDENTCAM for my documentary about the battles veterans and their families face when they return home. For this Veterans Day, I hope that can help others who may need someone to lean on.
By serving in our nation’s armed services, you have earned a right to professional and modern health care
Coming Home Returning from Hell These Men and Women Just Want to Get Back to Their Normal Lives by Chaplain Kathie When the men and women leave their bases, they head into combat with weapons they were trained to use. Imagine if they were sent without weapons. Imagine if they were sent with weapons but [...]
- Experts say simple accommodations can greatly improve their success in the workplace, but many employers are still wary of hiring those with mental disabilities. – By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times Michael Butcher has applied for at least 25 jobs since injuries he suffered in Iraq forced him to leave the Army three years ago. [...]
Washington D.C. – Disabled American Veterans (DAV), an organization focused on building better lives for disabled veterans and their families, today announced a donation from GE Foundation, the philanthropic organization of GE that will assist in care at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. “The Disabled American Veterans is pleased to be able to help [...]
- Of a recent Army Suicide Report: “The report is written in such a way to blame the soldier, and not the leadership of the military for its part in not inculcating people so that they have resiliency and understand how to deal with stress; because there are not any real programs that train the force [...]
- For Dr. Joel Feiner, homeless veterans are “not details” as some politicians say, they’re human beings. Over the years, as many as 200 homeless veterans visited Dr. Joel Feiner’s cluttered office at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center – By Kim Horner at The Dallas Morning News —They came from cardboard boxes under bridges and [...]
This week, nearly 1,200 life-saving advertisements will go up on city buses, bus shelters, rail and subway stations across the Nation displaying a message of hope for those who have served their country and may be facing an emotional crisis. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is advertising its Suicide Prevention Hotline through Jan. 9, 2011.
“THE SUICIDE BLUES ARE BREAKIN’ UP THAT OLE GAME O’ MINE” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor They always march off to war, fanfare, flags, speeches, parades. There’s always an enemy, an evildoer, torpedo boats in the Tonkin Gulf or mystery airplanes and dissolving buildings in Manhattan. The “armchair pundits” and “Monday morning quarterbacks” all [...]
- Watching C-SPAN 3′s telecast of the hearing on VA Disability Compensation, Presumptive Disability Decision-Making by the United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is an illustration why no veteran or advocate in Virginia should consider voting for Sen. James Webb (Traitor-VA) – This morning, while posturing as the earnest student of empirical investigation, Webb prefaced his [...]
From the VA: The AP (9/8, Jennings) reports that the documentary “Ward 54,” named after the psychiatric wing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is being shown out of competition at the Venice Film Festival. It “explores the trauma of three US war veterans who served in Iraq and how the military handled their cases,” [...]
Via 91 Outcomes All About MS – a reportedly common diagnosis among some Gulf War veterans IMAGE: Multiple sclerosis is a central nervous system disorder marked by decreased nerve function with initial inflammation of the protective myelin nerve covering and eventual scarring. Symptoms and severity of symptoms vary widely and may progress into episodes of [...]
- One suicide every 36 hours – Contradicting the U.S. Army’s suicide prevention report, an independent DoD report released this week failed to place the blame for servicemembers’ and veterans’ suicide rate on ”high risk behavior” at home, implicating the suicide victims themselves. Instead, the DoD Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide by Members of the Armed Forces’ report [...]
Here is my thought; if we as disabled vets formed a consortium to investigate and report on the medical value of the by-products of Hemp and the industrial production of “usable products” we could get a ground floor hold on a contract to supply the entire VA system with medical high grade marijuana (when the Federal Laws that inhibit are changed).
- The data suggests is that combat may scar veterans who experience it, leading them to be less able to find work between the ages of 25 and 55, the prime working years – From the Medical News: From the many images sent home from foreign battlefields over the last several decades, Americans have viewed [...]
Sgt. Thomas Riordan didn’t want to return to Afghanistan after home leave. He had just fought through a battle that killed eight soldiers, and when he arrived home his wife said she was leaving. He almost killed himself that night.
- At a hearing last week, experts told Congress that VA staff were “intentionally delaying research and treatment for our veterans” – by Nora Eisenberg at AlterNet Despite the recently announced intention by Secretary Eric Shinseki and his Chief of Staff, John Gingrich, to change the “culture” of VA, the agency is in the grips [...]
By Gregg Zoroya – USA Today TAMPA, Fla. — Army Ranger Cory Remsburg was thrown like a rag doll into an Afghanistan canal Oct. 1 by the blast from a 500-pound roadside bomb, the right side of his head caved in by shrapnel. After a medical evacuation and six surgeries at military hospitals in Afghanistan, [...]
By Sylvia L. Ramsey I am a widow of a veteran, a child of a veteran and a mother of veterans. I saw the article that was posted about the high incidence of bladder cancer in veterans and the article about the veteran who couldn’t afford surgery. I am a 15 year survivor of bladder [...]
By Hope Yen WASHINGTON – Patients treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics will be able to use medical marijuana in the 14 states where it’s legal, according to new federal guidelines. The directive from the Veterans Affairs Department in the coming week is intended to clarify current policy that says veterans can be denied [...]
By Robert Whited A study released in the Journal of Psychopharmacology on Monday, July 14, shows the drug Ecstasy had positive results in the majority of patients when used to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Existing treatments for PTSD include both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapies. Although a variety of drugs are used to treat symptoms [...]
Says Colonel Dan Cedusky’s Vets’ Issues: ”Veterans already knew this … now if someone would please tell the VA rating people.” By Kelly Kennedy in the Army Times After looking at 10 years’ worth of cancer data, researchers at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center found that service members tend to have higher rates of melanoma, brain, non-Hodgkin [...]
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