Regional Veterans’ News 2/9/10

Regional stories on veterans health, education and other benefits and issues today from: Helena, Montana, Pocatello, Idaho, Washington, DC, Modesto, California, Goshen, New York, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Tempe, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Florence, South Carolina

Stolen Valor: Challenges to Fake Medals Met with Criticism

A Texas man is caught posing as a highly-decorated soldier at a public event.

It is being challenged now in federal court. Xavier Alvarez, a California man convicted in 2007 of falsely claiming to be a decorated Marine, is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction and rule the Stolen Valor Act unconstitutional. A ruling could come at any time.

VA Underestimating Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties

Although the somewhat finished product looks nothing like the Mandatory Funding of the VA that most Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) flaunted as a few got too distracted from the VA with the Flag Amendment, guess what we’ve settled for, advanced funding, is almost there and better than nothing considering the bulk of American tax payers [...]

Veterans Storming the Hill, 2010

From Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA ) StormtheHill:
A second storm is about to hit Washington, D.C. The first one left
behind 20 inches of snow, but this one will leave an impact on the lives of millions of veterans.
This week, dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans from across the country are in Washington for [...]

Top 10 Veterans’ News From Around the Country

President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal includes 20 cost-saving ideas submitted by federal employees; three from VA employees:
– Allow Veterans to Keep Medication When They’re Discharged: The award-winning SAVE Award idea would allow veterans leaving VA medical facilities to keep leftover medications, including eye drops and inhalers. The plan would save taxpayers $14.5 million in the next four years.

GORDON DUFF: WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVED WAS A LIE?

 
 
 
 

HOW FAR DO THEY GO?  IS THERE ANY LIMIT?
 

 
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
What if I told you that much of what you think of news or history is totally false?  You hear this every day, in fact you hear little else.  People say little else.  The president is a Muslim from Kenya,  John McCain [...]

Regional Veterans’ News 2/8/10

Regional stories on veterans health, education and other benefits and issues, today from: Scranton, Pennsylvania, Morristown, New Jersey, Hillsboro, Illinois, Oceanside, California, Milford, Massachusetts, Detroit, Michigan, Chula Vista, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Haverstraw, New York

A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person

Mr. Turner is a literal foot soldier in what might be called the well-written war: a recent outpouring of memoirs, fiction, poetry, blogs and even some readable military reports by combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldier-writers have long produced American literature, from Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs about the Civil War to Norman Mailer’s World War II novel, “The Naked and the Dead,” to Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” about Vietnam.

GORDON DUFF: SPLITTING AMERICA TO SAVE AMERICA

NORTH/SOUTH OR BLACK/WHITE?
I HAVE MY OWN IDEAS AND SOME AREN’T GOING TO LIKE IT VERY MUCH.
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I am simply done with crazy people and think they need to be sent away.  There are so many of them that Utah and Oklahoma can’t hold all of them.  I am in favor of [...]

Regional Veterans News 2/7/10

Regional stories on veterans’ health, education,other benefits and issues today from: Prescott, Arizona, Ballston Spa, New York, Melbourne, Florida, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Joliet, Illinois, Conroe, Texas, Vero Beach, Florida, Elmira, New York, San Francisco, California, and St. Joseph, Missouri.

Veterans for Common Sense: Rebuild the VA

Paul Sullivan, Executive Director, Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), testified Feb. 4 before the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee about President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) for 2011. Sullivan knows the culture of the VA inside-out, and his message is: Complete overhaul is needed now, though Sullivan is known to [...]

Mr. Geithner, On What Planet Do You Spend Most of Your Time?

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13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (Hardcover)
By (author) Simon Johnson, James Kwak

Two economic analysts, Peter Boone and Simon Johnson, might have well posed this question to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner whom they accuse of ignoring the world economy as he cheerleads the American economic recovery. Boone and Johnson’s [...]

Regional Veterans’ News 2/6/10

Regional stories on Veterans benefits, health, education and other issues today from: Redding, California, Phoenix, Arizona, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Bennington, Vermont, Denver, Colorado, Torrington, Connecticut, Roseberg, Oregon, Ocala, Florida, Nobleboro, Maine, Fort Worth,Texas, Vineland, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chillicothe, and Columbus, Ohio.

Iraq and Depleted Uranium: Time for Transparency for Iraq and our US Veterans

The Environment of Iraq
Responsibility of USA in Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium
Abstract:
For two decades, the administrations of the United States of America and the United Kingdom have been waging continuous wars on Iraq to occupy this oil rich country.
The armed forces of those two countries attacked civilians with different kinds of conventional, non-conventional, and banned [...]

Top 10 Veterans News From Around the Country 10/5/10

Find out What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans

VA To Open New Clinic In Montana.
VA Spreads Word About Student-Produced Film.
Four Veterans Honored With US Postage Stamps.
Hospital, County To Discuss Leasing Land To VA.
Vets Home In Pennsylvania Receives Low Ranking.
Lawmakers, Advocates Pleased With VA Budget Proposal.
VA, DOD Said To [...]

VETERANS’ Stand Down Rally Milwaukee WI

This post is related to my previous one on DryHootch coffee shops.
Again although the focus is on Wisconsin, I wanted to give our readers in Wisconsin and other states an example of the kinds of things DryHootch is getting involved in outside of establishing Coffee Houses.
Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, Veterans Today News

Veterans’ Employment & Training Service (VETS)

Veterans’ Employment & Training Service (VETS) is maintained by the U.S. Dept of Labor as a resource for veterans, service members and families to make a living and navigate in an uncertain economy. Check out VETS if you have not:
The mission statement for VETS is to provide veterans and transitioning service members with the resources and services [...]

Dryhootch – A Place for Vets to Reconnect

“….take the money from your magnetic “support our troops” ribbon, or the money from a company putting that “support our troops” ad on TV; and put it where it will help a veteran survive today, to give them and their families hope of a tomorrow.”
This band of brothers and sisters known as Dryhootch
I’ve been [...]

Regional Veterans’ News 2/5/10

Regional stories on Veterans, health, education and other benefits and issues, today from:Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Terre Haute, Indiana, Concord, California, Lombard, Illinois, Wilmington, North Carolina, Cranford, New Jersey, Houston, Texas,Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Terre Haute, Indiana, Concord, California, Lombard, Illinois, Wilmington, North Carolina, Cranford, New Jersey, Houston, Texas, and Cranford, New Jersey

Jeppesen: Strategic Subsidiary of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services Wants Veterans

For nearly 75 years, Jeppesen has helped aviation professionals worldwide reach their destinations safely and successfully. Today Jeppesen, the successful subsidiary of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, is wanting to hire veterans as part of its successful team.

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