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Soldier Suicide at its Highest Level

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Suicides and Warby Doug FeaverThe Post reports today that suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping...

Feds Want to Reevaluate PTSD Veterans Every Three Years

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Veterans groups push for reform of disabled veterans benefitsby Elizabeth GibsonWASHINGTON -- Veterans groups Thursday added their support to recommendations calling for modernization of...

Aegis Actively Seeking to Hire War Veterans

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Aegis and HireVeterans.com Have Partnered to Employ War VeteransBy K. Morgan Barker Aegis announces that they have joined forces with HireVeterans.com to employ America's...

Security and Risk Management Company Extends Jobs to War Veterans

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Aegis Actively Seeking to Hire War Veterans Aegis and HireVeterans.com Have Partnered to Employ War VeteransBy K. Morgan Barker Aegis announces that they have joined forces...

Pissing in the Wind…Working for Veterans Rights in America

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"The Veterans Game"Once a Year, We are News..Veterans Day.....orWhen"They" NEED OIL OR "PORK/GRAFT/CORRUPTION"THEY CALL ON USBY G. DUFFIt would be perfectly OK for congress...

Bush Needs to Be Trimmed

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Bush needs to be trimmed. by Peter Macdonald How can the President of the U.S. be so naïve to think of making his proposed...

Tet and the Unmaking of a President

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This week marks the 40th anniversary of the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, which proved to be the turning point in the Vietnam Warby Samuel...

Short Ramblings

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A LOOK AROUND AND A NOTE OR TWOBY G. DUFFSome of us have been watching the election process with, I suspect, most of us...

Investigative Report: How Washington Cheats Veterans

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Investigative Report: How Washington Cheats Veterans out of the Benefits They've Earned by Aaron GlantzWhen young American men and women sign up to serve in...

In More U.S. Court Cases, Combat Trauma Is Taking The Stand

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When it came time to sentence James Allen Gregg for his conviction on murder charges, the judge in South Dakota took a moment to...

Introduction to Veterans Siblings Organization

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Karen Hickman - FounderLynzee Hickman - WebmasterWe started in 2004 as a Non-Profit Organization, it was started due to lack of specific Organization or Group...

Law Costs Military Widows Benefits

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70's Law Costs 61,000 Military Widows Thousands of Dollars in Survivor Benefits by Lizette AlvarezAs many as 61,000 military widows whose husbands died of causes...

60 Minutes Story Incomplete – TF20 Member First To Extract Saddam Mistakes

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Interrogators: Saddam surprised by U.S. attackIraqi leader expected bombing in 2003, but not invasion Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons...

Soldier Falls from Patriotric Bliss into Abyss of Corrupted Bureaucracy

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One Soldiers Journey from Patriotic Service to Bureaucratic and Corrupt U.S. Government HellAnother Soldier Lost to the BureaucrazyBy Rick ThorneI will be 60 years...

Waging Battle Against Demons

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A new wave of homeless veterans is struggling to copeby Erin McClam and Sarah Palermo Left, veteran Peter Mohan cries while speaking about a...

Wounded Warrior Act Bill of 2007

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The Wounded Warrior Act Bill of 2007 and the Retirement Restitution Act is there for the soldiers returning from war..  The purpose of these...

Senate passes defense authorization bill

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Senate approves revised Defense Bill and sidesteps veto showdown with Bushby Anne Flaherty WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to approve a revised defense bill authorizing a 3.5...

Going Bankrupt: Why the Debt Crisis Is America's Greatest Threat

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Welcome to 2008, a year of morally obscene, fiscally unsustainable spending. Watch as the military bloats and our standard of living sinks. by Chalmers...

Did George W. Bush Channel Sun Tzu?

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Does Sun Tzu Live in the George W. Bush White House?Study: False statements preceded warHundreds of false statements on WMDs, al-Qaida used to justify...

United States Believer

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United States Believer 1-22-08Written by Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217The People, The citizens, The individuals, are what our U.S. Military...

Program Helps Incarcerated War Veterans

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Vets in the Veterans Incarcerated Program at Sierra Conservation Center hope the camaraderie they've found behind bars will help keep them out once they are released by...

People Want to Help

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People want to helpby Peter Macdonald People ask me all the time how can we help? I have gotten my self into this mess...

Soldier Says Military Ignores Soldiers Made Gravely Ill by Tours in Iraq

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Unit Member Says ‘Fighting 69th’ Victimized by Depleted Uranium by Mark AndersonSgt. Stanford Mendenhall is a member of the U.S. Army’s famed "Fighting 69th"...

A Veteran for homeless Veterans

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A Veteran for homeless Veterans 1-21-08Written By Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls Rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217I want to Thank Marty Capodice of the NHES...

Lead Story on Bud Day and McCain Somewhat Bullshit

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BUD DAY KNEW MCCAIN BUT THERE WAS LITTLE LOVE BETWEEN THEMBY G. DUFFBack in the 1990s, in what was the early days of the...

Presidential Hopeful Continues Fight for Veterans

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Ex-Vietnam POW, McCain Cellmate, Continues Fight for Veteransby Melissa NelsonFORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — It was spring of 1968 and George "Bud" Day was nearly...

Is Killing the Solution?

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Is Killing the solution? Written by Peter MacdonaldThe hard cruel experience gained by practice in the field makes the task of killing emotionless. We...

Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals

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American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.by David HamblingPheromones...

We Are So Lucky

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We are so lucky by Peter Macdonald Pearl Harbor was because we as a nation had become so complacent with our freedom our leaders...

Construction Corporation to Hire War Veterans

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Cianbro Partners With HireVeterans.com to Employ War VeteransCianbro Corporation Partners with Top Jobboard to Offer Jobs to War VeteransBy K. Morgan Barker Cianbro...

The Wonderful VA, Generous to a Fault

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THANK PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE STOOGES LOOKING AFTER OUR SOLDIERS AND VETSBY G. DUFFAs a disabled veteran with two children in college on VA...

Veterans Charity Boss Rebuffs Ethics Complaints

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He tells congressional hearing that he's ‘most honest person in this room’WASHINGTON - The head of a California-based veterans charity rebuffed accusations of mismanagement...

We the People 1-18-08

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"We the People"-- but cast aside the Military VeteransWritten by Peter Macdonald 465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217Politicians tell you how much...

War on Terror Goes Berzerk

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FORMER CONGRESSMAN MARK SILJANDER ARRESTED AS TERRORISTWILL JESUS BE NEXT?BY G. DUFFYesterday, former Michigan Congressman Mark Siljander was arrested and charged in a rambling...

Ailing GIs Deployed to War Zones

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Ft. Carson sent ailing GIs to meet deployment goals, notes sayby Erin Emery, The Denver PostLeft, Master Sgt. Denny Nelson sits in his car...

Power of the Pen 1-17-08

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Power of the Pen 1-17-08Written by Peter Macdonald 465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217U.S. Military Veterans are a token thought of the...

Thinking of Hiring a U.S. Veteran?

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Thinking of Hiring Veterans?Enthusiasm, Discipline, Skill, and Attitude Among Top Qualities Looking for a few good men and women for your business? Look no...
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Things We Need to Know This Election

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We are watching the primaries move forward.  I just saw Romney beat McCain, by a bit anyway, in Michigan yesterday.  I tend to like...

Myth of the 'Murderous' War Veteran

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It is high time that something is done to debunk the fiction-as-fact theory that 'war veterans are freakish killers'By ALAN DAWSONLate at night, no...

Nothing Has Changed at Walter Reed

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"Nothing has changed . Same facility. None of the recommendations that I made have been implemented and to my knowledge they really aren't working...

Bush Disowns US Intel, Tells Israelis, Iran: NIE Doesn’t Reflect My Views

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Speaking in the UAE, Bush said the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger of Iran "before it's too...

Military Veterans and Mesothelioma

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Mesothelioma among veterans of the U.S. military is an unfortunately common occurrence. Thousands of veterans of World War II, the Korean Conflict, the war...