Monthly Archives: March 2006

NFL Player Joins Pat Tillman into U.S. Military National Football League (NFL) loses another player to the U.S. Military Jeremy Staat, former NFL Player and college teammate and...

Drug eases pain of bad memories for veterans with PTSDby Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune CHICAGO - Armed with new information about how brain chemicals affect...

'Job Is Getting Done' in Iraq, Despite US Press, Veterans Sayby Randy Hall, CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor (CNSNews.com) - A group of veterans from Operation Iraqi...

Department of Veterans Affairs Facing Staggering Burden of Providing Health Care to Returning Troops TEXAS-- Eugene Simpson doesn't like to complain. Paralyzed in a...

DOES THE PRESIDENT GIVE A DAMN? WILL THIS BE HIS LEGACY? The White House doesn't seem to care about veterans and Americans who saved and...

The sound of outraged patriotism is echoing across the American heartland like rolling thunder. INDIANA--Mounted on earth-trembling Harley-Davidsons, a volunteer army is shielding grieving families...

Wounded Warriors Win Insurance Battleby Timothy Bolger When Ryan Kelly lost his leg in an attack in Iraq in 2003, he found out the hard...

8,000 desert during Iraq warby Bill Nichols Desertion records are kept by fiscal year, so there are no figures from the beginning of the war...

Decades later, Marines hunt Vietnam-era desertersby Bill Nichols   The photo on the left shows Ernest Johnson Jr. as he looked in 1969. On the right...

A Vietnam veteran hopes to help with war's psychic woundsby Tom Infield Steven Silver has been working on his push-ups. He's up to 30. That's a...

TECHEXPO arrives in Washington DC featuring defense jobs for vets This is a job fair like no other. As a matter of fact, it only...

Vietnam vet wants to make a difference in Iraqby Jonathan Finer  Left: Today, he's shown offering candy to Kurdish kids in Baghdad. Vietnam vets in...

Do Americans have freedom of speech? A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a...

Army to launch criminal investigation into 2004 death of Pat Tillman The Army said Saturday it will launch a criminal investigation into the April 2004...

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Legislation blocks serial killer Charles Cullen-and other murderers- from veteran burial honors Charles Cullen, a man who claims to have murdered as many as 40...

Military Retirees Interests and Concerns survey needs input from veterans Martin County, NC and East Carolina University are soliciting input from current and future military retirees...

SUPER BOWL MVP CHAMPION OFF TO KOREA IN SEARCH OF DAD'S OLD FIGHTING GROUNDS Hines Ward hopes trip to homeland opens eyes to plight of those...

When the dollars stop making senseby Mark Engler In the center of the CostOfWar.com home page, an upward-racing ticker, presented in a large, red...

If you are not for us you are against usby Nick Farrell US Marines stationed in Iraq are complaining that the US government is restricting...

Signed, sealed, delivered next weekby Thomas C. Greene The US Senate has approved a new version of the so-called "Patriot" Act at last, by a...

How Bush has stayed away from soldiers' funeralsby Andrew Buncombe More than 2,290 US troops have been killed in Iraq. President George Bush has...

Recruiter gets in hot water over Craigslist adby Brian Barker PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon National Guard recruiter is in hot water after posting an...

Underfunded Federal mandates belies port securityby Diane M. Grassi As the story unfolds, it is perhaps important to gain some perspective on the underlying facts...

Iraq Vets Bringing Home Mental Health Needs at High Rate by Neil Osterweil Soldiers and marines who served in Iraq during the current war are...