Monthly Archives: April 2008
Iraq Veterans Help New Immigrants
Iraqis caught in the Cross-fire during the war, help US Soldiers and find a home in America by Michael Hill, Associated PressALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Bullets...
Senate Passes New VA Home Loan Bill to Increase Loan Limits
Includes Akaka’s legislation to boost veterans’ home loans to Stimulus Act level
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the...
VETERANS’ HOUSING PACKAGE PASSES SENATE
Includes Akaka’s legislation to boost veterans’ home loans to Stimulus Act level WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the...
Solar Turbines Inc. actively hiring Veterans
Solar Turbines Teams Up with HireVeterans.com to Recruit Our Nation’s Finestby hmcbain Wanting to do more for U.S. Military Veterans, Solar Turbines Incorporated has partnered...
Solar Turbines Inc. Partners with HireVeterans.com
Solar Turbines Teams Up with HireVeterans.com to Recruit Our Nation’s FinestWanting to do more for U.S. Military Veterans, Solar Turbines Incorporated has partnered with...
ARE YOU A DEAD BEAT PARENT?
By Rick ThorneThe PINHEAD who coined that phrase is an IDIOT!How in the world can society lump all divorced men into the same disgusting...
Returning Veterans Face Mounting Joblessness and Low Wages
The percentage of veterans not in the labor force more than doubled between 2000 and 2005by Alex LantierOn March 25, the Wall Street Journal published...
VA Creates Roadblocks to Voter Registration for Injured Veterans
VA Secretary says registering voters in VA facilities is a "partisan" distraction. By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNetOn the same day the Pentagon's commander in Iraq...
55-Year-Old Vietnam Veteran Re-enlists
Army life never got old for 55 year old Vietnam VeteranBy APRIL HUNT, The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionLeft, Spc. Tom Owens has no trouble keeping up...
Blogging Thru Spring
SOME STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT LIFE IN AMERICA FOR US AND OUR KIDSBY G. DUFFJust finished shopping. If any of you have noticed, only a...
DOD Phasing Out Full Social Security Numbers on IDs
Defense Department will issue identification cards without full Social Security numbers printed by Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (AFRNS) -- As a...
Investigators review VA credit charges
Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters and...
Call to Action: Military Veterans and our Nation – Public Rally
YOUR PRESENCE IS HEREBY REQUESTED!VETERANS PUBLIC RALLY - IV Sunday, April 13th - 1:00 - 4:00 PM"Save Our Veterans Home" National Veterans Home...
American Indians Saluted for Patriotism
85,000 American Indian War Veterans Who Served in Vietnam are Heroes by David Bergengren SPRINGFIELD - A tribute to American Indian veterans was the centerpiece of yesterday's...
Upon Death, What Happens to my VA Home Loan?
by Francisco Lozano, VA Loan Specialist, DirectVA Loan.com Okay, so I received a question from a Veteran today asking “I would...
MILE HIGH, ONE MONTH IN THE VIETNAM WAR
BARRY WENDELL'S ACCOUNT OF A MONTH IN A WAR SOME OF US STILL REMEMBERSo there I was, minding my own business, when everything I...
Military Parents & Child Custody
A Message from the California Alliance for Families & Children We all know how important it is to support the men and women in the Military...
Words of Wisdom About This Great Country of Ours
Words to remember about the USASubmitted by David Jackson, a CanadianWhen in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of...
A Safe Place for Veterans to Reintegrate After War
A Renewal Tour of Duty by Paul Newell, GreenRecovery.orgThe ”renewal tour of duty" is a duty to yourself. You have given your pound of...
Vets: Help unwanted
Vets are struggling to find work, and America needs to help IF YOU HAVE BEEN in an airport recently you may have been treated to...
Battle For Haditha, the Movie and Assorted Comments
FINALLY SAW THE BATTLE OF HADITHA AND READ THE ARTICLE ON PHONY MEDALS BELOW, TIME TO BLOGBY G DUFFThe movie itself, if I am...
US Army 'War Hero' Outed as Fraud
Man poses as Vietnam war hero, Dupes New York for 40 years, gets caught A New Yorker who for 40 years passed himself off as Vietnam...
Paralympics: Fighting for U.S.A. Again
Wounded in Iraq, Minnesota athlete Melissa Stockwell finds her strength again, competing for the Paralympic swim team
by Rachel Blount
Left, Melissa Stockwell, who lost her...
Iraq War Veteran Sues Playboy
An Iraq war veteran is suing Playboy magazine over an article that concludes he killed a fellow soldier is firing back at the author's...
Never Forget the USS Liberty
Why hasn't the Department of Defense conducted a complete investigation into the attack on the USS Liberty?Left, the flag that flew during the air...
Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
A Futuristic Nightmare That Just Might Come True by Nick TurseBiological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out...