Tag: PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

This idea is catching on across the nation: Let's not throw our veterans into prison when they get home. By Carol Ann Alaimo in the Arizona...

- A doctor warned that mental health care for violent, disturbed Marines was inadequate. Sgt. Tom Bagosy proved it - By Mark Benjamin at Salon Marine...

By Eric Shinseki For 38 years, I was privileged to serve the men and women entrusted with our nation's security. The character of their service...

Regional Veterans News 7/14/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Denver, Colorado - Denver's Brandon Center serves women...

Regional Veterans News 7/13/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Jamestown, North Dakota - U.S. Sen Byron Dorgan...

TheWhite House Blog By Tammy Duckworth We often hear the cliché, “the fog of war”—a simplified expression used to describe the chaos and confusion so often...

Veterans for Common Sense Petitions VA to Improve PTSD Benefits From CNN: WHITFIELD: So is this good news in your view? SULLIVAN: This is great news and...

The first thing one needs to do to fix something is see that it's broken. I have never seen a president acknowledge what President Obama...

- No longer will veterans have to prove what caused their illness. Instead, they would have to show that the conditions surrounding the time...

By Aaron Glantz  (Bay Citizen / New America Media) San Francisco, California - When Walter Williams came home from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in...

Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits and other issues today from Lincoln, Nebraska; Vacaville, California; Seattle, Washington; Charlottesville, Virginia; Rural Alaska; Springfield, Missouri; Madison, Wisconsin; and Rifle, Colorado,

By Ray Parrish, VVAW Veterans Benefits Counselor As mentioned in a previous article, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) intends expanding its capability to offer...

I ran across two articles in the latest edition of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) The Veteran - Spring 2010 - newsletter both...

This heart wrenching take on Soldiers, Veterans, and Suicide was sent into us by Brother Willie Hager and our friends at VetSpeak. Graphics added by...

Recently we at VT have been getting a lot of feedback both positive and negative on the Pentagon's experimentation with Virtual Reality War Simulations...

Madison, Wisconsin—The Vietnam War veterans were betrayed. That's not the official slogan of the welcome-home Vietnam War veterans event to held be May 21-23 at Lambeau Field...

VCS Responds to AP: PTSD is Real, PTSD Fraud is Not Written by VCS - Republished on VT by permission from Veterans for Common Sense....

As the political fallout continues over Allen Breed's AP hit job published over the weekend asserting that U.S. veterans and reformist DVA elements effectively collude to commit...

Just off the phone with a veteran who told me U.S. soldiers and Marines often take pictures in war zones of enemy dead in...

As PTSD claims soar, the systemic problem at the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs is the ease with which veterans file for disability benefit...