DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL: HANNITY/NORTH SCAM TROOPS WITH “FREEDOM ALLIANCE”

ShareSEAN HANNITY’S FREEDOM CONCERT SCAM:  ALMOST NONE OF CHARITY’S $ WENT TO INJURED TROOPS, KIDS OF FALLEN TROOPS; G5S FOR VANNITY?
By Debbie Schlussel
****03/19/10:  SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE: My Response to Freedom Alliance’s/Oliver North’s Weak “Non-Response” & New Lies  ****
For the last several years, Sean Hannity and the Freedom Alliance “charity” have conducted “Freedom Concerts” across [...]

Attorneys Fight for Veterans Against VA and VSOs

ShareThe Disabled American Veterans (DAV) organization is targeting the use of attorneys by veterans (the Attorneys for Veterans right) to obtain benefits to which veterans are entitled, sending veterans into the hands of the veritable enemy— the Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs).
The ‘Attorneys for Veterans’ or ‘choice’ legislation took effect in June 2007 and now the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) seeks a [...]

GORDON DUFF: RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, AN UNAMERICAN CITY OF NOTE

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“MILITARY TRASH, NEGROES, INJUNS, MESSICANS AND QUEERS, RAPID CITY HATES EM’ ALL”
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Rapid City, South Dakota has a long history of racial discrimination against African American Airmen, dating back to the 1940s.  “Negroes, Messicans, Red Skins,” Rapid City hates them all, especially if they are serving their country.
Police Chief Steve Alexander [...]

CRUISE PLANNERS DONATES $18,000 TO FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION

Cruise Planners/American Express, the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise network in the cruise industry, donated $18,000 to the Fisher House Foundation as part of its CP Cares initiative. The funds were collected at the company’s annual convention late last year through Cruise Planners t-shirt sales and a silent auction.

NGWRC Statement on VA’s Reopening Gulf War Veterans Claims

ShareGulf War Veterans question how well the VA’s plan will work at reopening Gulf War Veterans’ claims on Gulf War Illness.
Gulf War Veterans are concerned about how today’s headline, “VA to reopen Gulf War vets’ files”, will impact the VA’s procedures in determining their current and future benefits from the VA.
Jim Bunker, president for the [...]

Veterans Storming the Hill, 2010

ShareFrom 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 [...]

GORDON DUFF: SPLITTING AMERICA TO SAVE AMERICA

ShareNORTH/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 [...]

VETERANS’ Stand Down Rally Milwaukee WI

ShareThis 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

Dryhootch – A Place for Vets to Reconnect

Share“….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 [...]

VVA Veterans Incarcerated program may become the Veterans Justice program

Share “Male veterans less than half as likely as male non-veterans to be in prison in 2004. Veterans older, better educated than other State and Federal prisoners” Justice Department Report, May 20, 2007
We at Veterans Today have been getting inquiries and request for assistance from Veterans and families related to Veterans from all war [...]

Veterans Descend on DC to close GITMO

In addition to Veterans and Military Families marching on Washington in the Spring to protest the continued occupation of Iraq, Obama’s SURGE in Afghanistan, how our troops and Veterans are treated when they come home, and to close Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), there has been a more recent effort by military Veterans and families to close GITMO that occurred this month.

Veterans and military families speak out

We are people who had little to no opportunity to get a college education. We are people who wanted to take our children to the doctor without going bankrupt. We are people who wanted to avoid joining the masses of unemployed and underpaid. Many of us believed the lifetime of indoctrination that told us the U.S. military protects our families here at home, and helps the poor and oppressed abroad.

VA Reports Suicide Rate Among Young Veterans increased over past two years

ShareAccording to the Veterans and Military Family advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), the Department of Veterans Affairs just released data to the Associated Press indicating that the suicide rate among veterans aged 18 to 29 tragically increased 26 percent, an issue first publicized by VCS and CBS Evening News in November 2007.
President Obama, [...]

Regional Veterans' News

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Roanoke, Virginia Veteran guilty of false claims
Nobleboro, Maine Camp offers veterans free retreat
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania VA to offer H1N1 vaccine to vets
Stockton, California Program aids vets returning from war zones
Hartford, Connecticut Knights help amputee veterans to get wheels

     

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Palo Alto, California Bay Area veterans using horses to heal
Jacksonville, Florida Help with VA benefits doesn’t cost a thing
Cherry Hill, New Jersey State honors veterans for service in wartime
Kingwood, West Virginia Rural Health Clinic Reaches Veterans in Kingwood
Sacramento, California Governor to Announce Help for Unemployed Veterans

     

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Boise, Idaho VA Boise Office Boise Recognized
Malta, Ohio US Vets To Visit Vietnam For Mine Clearance
Manila, Philippines Filipino vets’ claims deadline February 16
Denver, Colorado Optician lends hand to vets needing glasses
Cape Coral, Florida Groundbreaking set for VA clinic in Cape Coral

     

MILITARY CHARITIES: MOST PURE RIPOFF OR BAD INVESTMENT

ShareSome Nonprofits Shortchange Troops, Watchdog Group Says
By Philip Rucker, Washington Post Staff Writer
Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charitiesdesigned to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of thegroups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leadingwatchdog organization and federal tax filings.
 
     Eight veterans charities, including [...]

Regional Veterans' News

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Toronto, Ontario Pity the walking wounded
Mililani, Hawaii Vietnam vet Segawa will get Purple Heart
Keene, New Hampshire Plan on using GI Bill college benefits?
New Haven, Connecticut Army vet receives special Marine Corps salute
Modesto, California Wait, someone’s having trouble giving the government money

     

60 Minutes on Screwing America's Veterans

ShareSixty Minutes left out the national veterans service orgs’ complicity in screwing our veterans, the document shredding, the abuse of the DVA police, C-file altering and fraud, the Bush-Cheney administration and rightwing hostility, but the show offers the public insight into a deplorable deny-delay culture that is common knowledge among veterans and advocates. [From Veterans for [...]

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Pahrump, Nevada Military retirees create council
Akron, Ohio Proposal to honor veterans shapes up
Waco, Texas Vouchers to get homeless vets off streets
Port Saint Lucie, Florida Helen Simpson, Army Gulf War veteran
Winterset, Iowa Iowa vets gain freedom, family with foster program

     

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