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OFFE Receives Support from Entertainment Celebrities

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On May 15th & 16th Operation Firing For Effect (OFFE) will be sponsoring a rally in Freedom Park in Las Vegas, Nevada.

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Talking Torture: Mordechai to Manning

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“If you had free reign over classified network…and you saw incredible things, awful things…things that belonged in the public domain…what would you do?”

April 18th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Former Navy Doctor spearheading “Remote Medicine Initiative” to Pakistan

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Let me introduce you to Dr. Gary Levin. Dr. Levin was in the US Navy from 1969 to 1971 serving as a general medical officer. He was in an amphibious group, and served on the USS Jeneau, LPD 10.

March 16th, 2012 | Posted in Support the Troops,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Military Suicides, Duff on Press TV

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Gordon Duff, Senior Editor at Veterans Today slams the U.S. military for doing “very little about” the rising suicide rate among troops, blaming multiple deployments and faulty medications as to why soldiers resort to taking their own lives.

March 12th, 2012 | Posted in Military,WarZone | Read More »

Google+ Plus and the L-Shaped Ambush (Part two)

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In my earlier writings about the Google+ platform I suggested to my readers that this Google product was perhaps the most significant leap in social media technology since the invention of the telephone.

February 27th, 2012 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »

Ex-Spouse Entitled to Purple Heart Medal Award?

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Currently, an extremely heated debate is taking place every day in court rooms nationwide.

February 26th, 2012 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Google+ Plus and the “L-Shaped” Ambush

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I was invited to attend a symposium at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI last summer to learn something about how our Navy deals with terrorist threats to our fleets worldwide.

February 14th, 2012 | Posted in Opinion Maker,World | Read More »

Military Veterans And Cancer

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“Men and Women in the military know that they risk their lives when they go into combat. What they have not anticipated is that they might be exposed to chemicals or toxins that could cause cancer many years later”

February 1st, 2012 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Minnesota Veteran Returns War Medals in Protest

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“My ex-wife didn’t serve in Vietnam, I did. She wasn’t forced to killed people, I was. She wasn’t the one severely wounded, I was.

January 28th, 2012 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

The VA in 3D: Examiner Examined (Part 6)

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Captain May, I am writing for The Washington Examiner, and have come across your posts on the Veterans Today website. I can hardly believe the treatment you have endured, and wish to expose the abuse veterans receive from Veterans Administration hospitals. — Sincerely, Samantha Gilman, Opinion Page

January 26th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Health | Read More »

Connecting the Military Dots

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She walked onto the campus of the West LA Veterans Hospital in her Anne Taylor outfit and instantly could feel her throat tighten. “You OK Ma’am?” said one of the VA tour guides, a young male half her age.

January 20th, 2012 | Posted in Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

Nevada Attorney – “Veterans Need Skinning”

Attorney at Law, Marshal Willick

In a December 5, 2011 mass email to several grassroots veteran’s organizations, Las Vegas Attorney, Marshal Willick declares anyone or organization that supports absolute protection of veteran’s disability compensation from being used in a divorce as “income” and divided with a former spouse are Wacko-Jobs.

January 16th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

CIA – DOD – Panetta and the Hidden Truth

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Former CIA Director Panetta condemns Marines peeing on dead Taliban with “utterly deplorable” comment. Ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black? .

January 16th, 2012 | Posted in Military | Read More »

Pissed off Marines

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As many of you already know, I volunteer at the “National Veterans Hotline” a few nights per month. The hotline website can be found at www.Veterans911.com Last night, I was on duty for close to four hours and during that time I talked to over twenty callers.

January 13th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest,Vet News | Read More »

Mitt Romney – Ted Kennedy and Veterans Milking Cows

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Years later, I found out that the anonymous donor was Romney. Out of his own pocket he did this.

January 10th, 2012 | Posted in Government,Politics | Read More »

US-Israeli Spring Will Bring Deployment of Thousands of US Soldiers

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This spring, Israel and US will showcase the largest ever missile defense exercise and establish US command posts in Israel and Israeli Forces will occupy EUCOM headquarters in Germany.

January 6th, 2012 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »

New Online Group for Out of Work Veterans

Americans just want to work but Washington has allowed corporations to send jobs overseas.

I was sent an email by a veteran who had lost his job last summer, and has been searching hard for a place to find work.

January 5th, 2012 | Posted in Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »

Sons of the Fallen from Iraq and Afghanistan

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I seldom get moved about a movie, or a cause, beyond the confines of my own home, where I take time for my own kids every day, day after day, week after week.

January 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Heroes,Military | Read More »

MADE IN USA Messages and Obama’s Spine

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President Obama “intends to hammer the theme of economic justice for ordinary Americans rather than continue his legislative battles with Congressional Republicans. In terms of the president’s relationship with Congress in 2012, the president is no longer tied to Washington, D.C.”

January 1st, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

Homeless Veterans, Cable TV and the FBI

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Once upon a time, I ran the largest shelter for Homeless Veterans in the USA, located in Boston Massachusetts. Here is a story that I remember with a smile:

December 28th, 2011 | Posted in Education,Humor,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

Homeless Veterans Bank Robbery

Homeless Veterans sleep outside the largest VA in the nation

Every day at the homeless veterans shelter in Boston at ten in the morning there was a huge influx of vets.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Top 10,VA Home Loans,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Homeless Veterans need to Stand Up – Not Stand Down

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Almost 20 years ago I met a combat Vietnam Veteran named Robert Van Keuren and his partner in crime Dr. Jon Nachison both advocates like me doing work for homeless veterans in San Diego.

December 19th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Top 10,VA Home Loans,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Working It: A Review of Back to Work

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Bill Clinton’s latest book illuminates the Tea Party’s anti-government agenda and offers common-sense arguments for why America needs a strong national government. As a candidate of conscience for US House of Representatives I offer more.

December 17th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Devine Providence Can Be Found If You Just Look Around

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Sometimes there is meaning even in worse-case scenarios

December 16th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Heroes,Military,Support the Troops,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Prosthetic’s for Peace. The costs of Land Mines and War.

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A friend of mine called and said: We should try to find ways to advance ourselves with our allies and even our perceived enemies by sharing our knowledge of prosthetics.

December 12th, 2011 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Veterans Support Organization

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I was searching the internet the other day and came across a story online about a group collecting money for homeless Veterans outside a shopping center.

December 9th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Top 10,VA Home Loans,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Veterans and Children: NOT Just Homeless at the Holidays

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Republican Governor Rick Scott was also photographed passing out Thanksgiving dinners in an East Naples, Florida shelter, which fed 7,000 families during the holiday week. Scott said “I care completely about all these programs,” but reality is that his budget cuts “slashed funding to some veteran and farm surplus programs that helped the homeless.”

December 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

“Occupy HUD” Movement Gains Traction

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Forget about Occupy Wall Street. My readers and other Veteran Advocates nationwide say “Occupy HUD” and ask How many Iraqi or Afghanistan Combat Wounded Veterans Live in HUD Subsidized or Disability Housing?

December 1st, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Government,Legislation,Politics,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

History 1A…Going Back To Vietnam And Setting The Record Straight

No matter what the war, US Troops are probably the most caring and compasionate when it comes to the innocent

Time to set the record straight on Vietnam

November 30th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,History,Politics,Vietnam War | Read More »

Three Blind Mice…The House, Senate, And The President!

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The government's thirst for power is unending

November 28th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Corruption,Government,Legislation,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

 

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