Monthly Archives: September 2009
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
From the U.S. Department of Defense No. 754-09 - September 30, 2009 CONTRACTS AIR FORCE Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, Calif., was awarded a $925,636,600 contract...
U.S Veteran Sen. Kerry Responds to First False Attacks on Kerry-Boxer Bill
The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act “The ink wasn’t even dry on the The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act before the...
Holocaust Survivor Warns of Fundamentalist Control of U.S. Armed Forces
Most of us when we reach our 80s will relax, reflect and live out our retirements in peace. Walter Plywaski of Boulder, Colorado, a...
Secretary Shinseki Announces Ability to Sign Up for Emergency Education Benefit Payments on VA...
Vans to Help Veteran-StudentsWASHINGTON (Sept. 30, 2009) - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki today announced further outreach to Veteran-students eligible for a...
TOO MUCH TIME ON OUR HANDS: AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO FANTASY
THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSEBy Gordon Duff STAFF WRITEROK, a blanket statement of purpose to start: Nothing said in newspapers and TV outside of...
Family, friends, co-workers remember pilot who died in crash
By Kurt KnapekTheSunNews.ComFamily, friends and co-workers from across the Grand Strand attended a memorial service Wednesday for a Murrells Inlet man who died when...
New Zealand Leads by Example, Recognizes Dioxin Link to Parkinson’s, Heart Disease.
Will Our VA Follow Quickly? “It certainly comes as good news to New Zealand’s veterans who served in Vietnam that their government, agreeing with the...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 9-30-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. VA Staffs Veterans' Survivors Advocacy Office. 2. VA Awards Contract To Expand, Improve Houston National Cemetery Project. 3. Pentagon Investigating...
The Battle of Los Angeles: A Strange Chapter in World War II
Here is a video about the Battle of Los Angeles, a very strange part of the early days of World War II. It is...
Things are starting to unravel for us quickly in the Middle East. The news...
Today's New York Times and Washington Post are showing uncharacteristic clarity and focused attention on the startlingly quick devolvement of our national aims in...
Depleted Uranium EXPOSED
GULF WAR VETERANS(90-91) SEEK ANSWERSGULF WAR VETERANS ILL AND DYINGGulf War Veterans-Victims Overlook After 19 YearCame across this very through article today that warranted...
AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION: A NATION OF RUBES
WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS BEING SAID? (SIR, SOME OF THE PLANES MISSED THEIR TARGETS)By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITERWho leads America? Not hard to figure...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
From the U.S. Department of Defense - No. 752-09 - September 29, 2009CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Rio Grande Electric Cooperative Inc., Brackettville , Texas...
AFGHANISTAN: THE UNLIT PATH
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL OR CUSTERS LAST STAND?By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior EditorIn 1979, the Soviet Union sent 100,000 troops into...
Canadian Agent Orange Class Action Law Suit
Agent Orange continues killing our veterans today. And our friends in Canada also suffer from the same malignant lies and malevolent application that can...
Senate Defense Appropriations for ILL Gulf War Veterans
Veterans and Friends Help BY Calling SenatorsGULF WAR VETERANS ASK YOUR HELPAmendment has been filed12 million for Gulf War illness research program run by...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 9-29-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. Wounded Soldier Gets Help From Veterans. 2. VA Said To Be Calling On Outside Organization For PTSD Help. 3. VHA...
Secretary Shinseki Announces $32 Million to Calverton Cemetery
WASHINGTON - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced that more than $32 million has been awarded to a New Jersey construction...
Secretary Shinseki Announces $1 Million for Houston Cemetery
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced a $1 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to prepare construction documents...
Army Prisoner Isolated, Denied Right to Legal Counsel
Reports are circulating of a prisoner tossed in small cell, isolated without contact with attorneys or visitors of any kind. Human rights groups object....
At Arlington, millions for nothing
A National Cemetery official keeps sending work to the same small group of associates, with few results A top official at Arlington National...
VA Staffs Office for Survivors of Vets, Service Members
Shinseki: "Voice of Survivors" Will Strengthen Existing ProgramsWASHINGTON -- To strengthen the programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the survivors of...
Some food for thought from today's New York Times
In today's New York Times we have several articles that will instruct veterans concerning all the crazy, foggy and unclear variables that seem to...
VETERANS TODAY HEALTHCARE LINKS
HEALTH RESOURCES FOR VETERANS
FORMS, CAREGIVER GUIDES AND HINTS
By Carol Duff
VT maintains a growing health care library for veterans and their families. These are...
VETERANS TARGET OF A PHONE SCAM
Veterans beware: This scam targets you Mitch LipkaSep 25th 2009 at 1:30PMEditor note: Always know who you are talking to on the phone. Being...
A Fake Warrior and the "Wall That Heals"
By Larry Stimeling Staff Writer James Richard Lyons is a hero. He joined the Navy in 1964 at age 17. James went through some of...
ADULT IMMUNIZATIONS
MAKE SURE YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
GET YOUR IMMUNIZATIONS
IMMUNIZATIONS ARE NOT JUST FOR BABIES
by Carol Ware Duff MSN, BA, RN
Vaccines are not...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 9-28-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. VA, Others Responding To Increased Rate Of Homelessness Among Female Vets. 2. VA To Issue Emergency Checks To Vets...
Congressman Sestak Recognizes Gold Star Mothers Sunday
Says All Americans Should Honor the Sacrifices of this Remarkable GroupTo recognize Gold Star Mothers Sunday, Congressman Joe Sestak (PA-07) paid tribute to this...
Congressman Sestak Provides Update on Vets Mistreatment Case after Facility Tour
Stresses Enhanced Accountability and Transparency from VA in Correcting Past Systemic FailuresPhiladelphia, PA - Following a meeting with regional Veterans Administration (VA) leadership and...
Secretary Shinseki Honors Gold Star Mothers and Families
Secretary Shinseki Honors Fallen Heroes, ParentsArlington Ceremony for American Gold Star Mothers and Families DayWASHINGTON - On the 69th anniversary of American Gold Star Mothers...
Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged...
Here is a story of great historical significance, if true.The Daily Mail online, a British newspaper, has reported as of yesterday that Americans have...
A lot of things do not make sense. That much is obvious.
On AOL News today, the Associated Press has released a series of interesting stories of interest to veterans. First there is a story about...
SOS FROM ILL GULF WAR VETERANS
THIS IS SOS big time!THE GULF WAR 90-91 VETERANS ARE ILL WITH REAL PHYSIOLOGICAL DAMAGE and READY FOR MEDEVACWE have been losing lately if you...
Chairman of The VA RAC GWI Letter outlines the Need
Urgent Message to Friends of Gulf War Illness Research Excerpts of the Chairman's message to the SenateFriends of Gulf War illness treatments research:"I was stunned...
Monday and Tuesday Action Please Help By Making Calls
SOS TIME FOR GULF WAR VETERANS Close to a Third of Gulf War Veterans 90-91 Have been AffectedIt is up to you to make a difference! ...
Innocent Vet's Freedom in Balence on VA Following the Law
The following is excerpted from a longer, recently published piece because an important case, Military Order of the Purple Heart of the USA, and National...
The Crusades, Still Killing for Christ
Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has the crazy idea that our military should not discriminate against our troops on the...
Secretary of Defense Gates Does Not Support War With Iran – W.P.
In a late edition of the online Washington Post, Secretary of Defense Gates goes on record as being against war with Iran.The story is...
BBC SAYS AL QAEDA INVENTED BY US
THE WEB OF LIES UNRAVELS MORE EACH DAYSibel Edmonds Letter "OUTING" Lesbian Blackmail in House Intel Committee WAS THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR A FRAUD?By...
Navy vet a victim of 'senseless violence'
Not just in Patterson, New Jersey: That's just the way things go.Let's stick together, whatever our differences, to meet what life brings after service,...
WATCHFUL WAITING OUTCOMES IN PROSTATE CANCER
Outcomes With "Watchful Waiting" in Prostate Cancer in US Now So Good, Active Treatment May Not Be Better BY Zosia Chustecka/ news editor for Medscape...