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Setting the record straight with Veterans benefits

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Coming to terms with veterans benefits

Hackers, Worms and Israel-USA Collusion Versus Gaza-Palestine

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While hard working American tax payers face economic hardships, 81 members of Congress neglected listening to their constituents during this summers recess to take a lobbyist-funded trip designed to pressure them into sending even more tax-payer-funded weapons to the Israeli military which will be used to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians.

The budget deficit debate by the “Gang of Twelve” should be...

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The budget deficit debate by the “Gang of Twelve” should be comical at best

The Y-12 Thirteen and MADE in USA WMD

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Come September, The Y-12 thirteen nuclear resisters will be sentenced for their July 5th 2010 nonviolent civil disobedience protest against USA MADE Nuclear Weapons. I was eyewitness to that day when priests and nuns, atheists, anarchists and a clown were among the 23 arrested by the State and 13 by the Federal Government for nonviolently resisting Nuclear Weapons at the Y-12 Complex at Oakridge, TN.

50th anniversary of using Agent Orange in Southeast Asia

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August 10th marked the 50th anniversary of the commencement of using Agent Orange defoliant in Vietnam and other countries of Southeast Asia. This is not a momentous occasion by any stretch of the imagination.

One Party Rule Bad for Veterans; Split Party Rule Good for...

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Sad state of affairs in US politics

Agent Orange…Falling Prey to Snake Oil Salesmen

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Today was not like every other day for many of us. For veterans having to deal with a proposed amendment to the Military Construction Bill I wrote about earlier.

Phony Terrorist Sideshow: Walid Shoebat, Bin Laden Wannabee

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On 13 July 2011, CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported on the so-called Islamic terrorist export, Walid Shoebat, who has been duping The MSM and making a mint off of Americans claiming he is now a devout Christian after years as a Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist. This Internet muckraker exposed Walid in 2008 and I did all on my own dime driven by my conscience and search for truth.

Until we force a change…want coverage for Agent Orange, be prepared...

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The battle over Agent Orange and those inflicted with illness seems to be never ending. Dealing with veterans has been the issue but what about the civilian USO tour personnel and civilian non-military contractors. Where do they turn to for help?

Getting back to the problem of Agent Orange and other toxins

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Let us get back to the Agent Orange problem and the plight of many veterans.

Failures of Intelligence

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This citizen of conscience for U.S. House of Representatives 2012 asserts that America’s ugly side is rooted in failures of intelligence, heretical Christianity and a lack of true patriotism, for "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official." -Theodore Roosevelt

Agent Orange Comes Home to Roost

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The never-ending issue of Agent Orange comes home to roost, intruding on the lives and communities here in the United States.

Agent Orange: New Navy Victims Considered for Help

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Fighting for Agent Orange benefits is almost as difficult as fight the Vietnam War for our brown water and blue water Navy personnel.

Changing Sides: Legion of Dishonor

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The real issue is with the Legion itself. It had a choice, it could side with homeless veterans and the ACLU or with the wealthy and powerful homeowner association and developer group that sits in the middle of one of the nation's most powerful political machines.

DoD Budget Cutbacks: Veterans May Get Short End of Stick

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In the budget battle, the veteran is probably going to be on the short end of the stick if we don't exercise our voting power

Adrenaline and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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The rush of adrenaline may be what causes the human body to go into survival mode, but it also causes a euphoric high this is behind PTSD

How and Why to Change the Status Quo in Washington

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Action is needed to preserve military and veterans benefits; not apathy

A Tragic June 1967 Day Veterans Will Never Forget

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To support the troops we must march and demand justice: an open congressional hearing that includes any LIBERTY survivor who wants to tell what they saw that day in infamy, 44 years ago.

Warrior 2 Citizen a unique program for military family counseling

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Warrior 2 Citizen - the program to address the family needs of the transitioning warrior

USS LIBERTY and Acts of Congress

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The attack on the USS Liberty remains the only incident of damage to a major US ship since the sinking of the USS MAINE in Havana Harbour that has not been investigated by the US Congress.

DTAP Program for Transitioning Disabled Vets

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There are many available programs for transitioning disabled veteran, from both the public and private sectors; they will not be forgotten.

VA Asks Employees and Contractors to Help Improve Services

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On behalf of the Under Secretary for Health and the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2), we are excited to announce the launch of the 2011 VA Employee Innovation Competition website to solicit ideas that improve veterans’ health and healthcare.

Issues to contemplate before leaving the military

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How’s that military career working out for you? This is a question many of us had to ask ourselves as we neared the end of our enlistment. I’m sure most of the military personnel from past generations also had that same question on their minds.

Dennis McCarthy: Sepulveda VA loses its heart and soul (One of...

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HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT Remember all those columns I wrote back in the early 2000s when our local veterans were fighting to...

Latest Taps Desert Storm Veterans

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We want to continue to honor our Gulf War Veterans and recognize their early deaths, it has only been 20 years since the Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm. WE are concerned that they are dying too early and still call for national registries of diagnosed illness deaths and the undiagnosed illnesses. This data could prove helpful to health care providers, medical researchers, and the veterans and their families in being proactive in their health concerns.

The Crisis Point For Gulf War Illness

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It is 20 years since the Gulf War 1990-91, Operation Desert Storm(US), and our British Coalition Forces that are suffering with Gulf War Illness/es stood tall in London and welcomed the other coalition members that served and are also part of the unfolding health crisis of Post Gulf War Service. This crisis involved the largest ever number of veterans that have been affected by their service in the most Hazardous Toxic Soup of Environmental Exposures in any war.

VA RAC GWI Meeting in DC Next Week- Shout Outs Point...

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VA RAC GWI MEETING FEB 28-MAR 1 in DC AGENDA AND DISCUSSION

Marines Delta Battery 20 Years Gulf War Reunion

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Again the ill Gulf War Veterans are the ones doing the outreach and getting the word out, it is a shame they don't even provide grants for outreach work nor rooms for veterans to use when attending VA RAC GWI meetings. Nor do they encourage interaction and sharing of important health care providers and research being done at annual type meeting for Gulf War Researchers both Civilian and VA. Much less having Civilian and VA Providers also involved fully in caring for Gulf War Veterans. There is a need for these type meetings and meetings should be open to veterans. These meetings also need videoconferencing live and archived and available openly on the internet!

VA Marks 20th Anniversary of Ground Combat in Gulf

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WASHINGTON – On Feb. 23, the men and women of the Department of Veterans Affairs will mark the 20th anniversary of the start of ground combat in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Fighting ended 100 hours later after a U.S.-led coalition drove Iraqi forces from the small nation of Kuwait.

Gulf War Veterans Medical Alert: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Increase Risk...

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a rateable condition by the VA that falls under gulf war illness. The gulf war veterans also have a researcher at VA Minneapolis, Dr Ron Bach studying Hypercoagulation in Gulf War Illness. So the following news article on medical research today on Blood clots and Inflammatory Bowel diseases/disorders needs to be circulated to the Gulf War Veterans and to the health care providers and researchers that are concerned about our gulf war veterans 1990-91. The take home highlights of the article are in Bold and underlined to draw your attention to what is the most important items in the research.

VA’s Union, AFGE, Speaks Out Against VA Funding Cuts

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On Monday, February 14, House Republicans introduced a Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government for the last seven months of the fiscal year while cutting $61 billion in current year spending. The bill proposes to cut $2.6 billion in funding provided to care for America's veterans

GULF WAR: The Terrible War After the War and the Enduring...

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As we look at twenty years since the Gulf War 1990-91/Operation Desert Storm the writer has to wonder have we made headway? The writer wants the President, the VA, the DOD, the legislators both US Senators and Representatives to hear from the veterans that counted on our government to do the right thing morally and ethically. If we had really been tuned into the history of the veterans of World War 1, Atomic Veterans, and Agent Orange Veterans we would not have been so deceived. Maybe the All Volunteer Force would not have been reality. Maybe a draft would still be in affect. But the troops felt it a DUTY, A Sacred Duty to serve their country. They were well educated and trained. Many were college graduates, almost all had completed high school and had a beginning on college level education, in total a different profile than the Vietnam Veterans. Many had families with military traditions and service.

VA Completes Initial Evaluations of Technology Proposals

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has completed the initial evaluation of proposals for its Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) solicitation to transform its information technology programs, which will result in improved quality of health care and benefits services to Veterans, their families and survivors.

Desert Storm Veterans, the Lead Element in the Poison War

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The aim to tie the story of environmental hazards to all that have been concerned from the patient sufferers be it civilian or military, to the lead Senator that exposed the Plight of the Gulf War Veterans in 1994(Senator Reigle), to the doctors that cared to try to answer the needs despite government interference, to the researchers that are finally now being funded thanks to the Gulf War Veterans efforts, and to the government agencies that were to have our backs but that have interfered and delayed help to those that need it the most. This not a story about whiners, this is the investigative report that covers the science and the research that has taken over 20 years to finally have an awakening that millions are truly sufferring.

Never Ever Give Up on Veterans Claims

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How long does it take to get a decision to help a veteran that is alive, how many times back through the system to get the correct decision, and then how long does a surviving widow have to plead the case to fulfill the promises made to veterans by this government! So I call now for sustained action by all veterans, their family members, their friends, and the citizens of this country...Show it through twitter activity every day!

Parkinson’s Disease Research Update for Veterans

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Parkinson's Disease has been an issue of concern for Vietnam Veterans but the concern on pesticide (organophosphates) exposure and Gulf War Veterans should be tracked closely for rate of occurrence in the next generation of veterans. Developments in this research also highlights the need to examine mitrochrondial damage in the Gulf war veterans.

Agent Orange Claim, Never Give Up

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Nearly 41 years after leaving the chemically infested and war-torn jungles of Vietnam behind and more than four years after his death from cancer, Grass Valley native Paul Orlandi found justice, thanks to his wife and a doctor who waged a war of their own.

Gulf War Illness in the Non-Deployed Veterans

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For years I have tracked those that were nondeployed and talked to hundreds of these veterans. As I also communicate with civilian groups with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Chronic Fatigue/ME I wonder if the civilian sufferers have looked as closely as possibly as they should have at vaccines and environmental triggers. There are huge numbers of civilians suffering and they have their own groups and Advisory Committee. Dr Klimas is one of the researchers that has taken a lead role for civilians and the gulf war veterans at the University of Miami and the Miami VA. She is a researcher that is pushing ahead and all of us need to keep an eye on her research in both fields.

VA Announces Budget Request for 2012

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In announcing the proposed budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) during the next fiscal year, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki emphasized “making every dollar” count in the $132 billion budget proposal for VA.

Hazard Exposures Follow Current Troops

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Encourage all the Veterans to get on facebook and form unit pages NOW. Use the Social Medium! List OIF/specific unit/location. Start now to reform your units virtually, do health surveys, use your military organization skills ie admin, family support, intel officer, communications, Claims help, referral network, and etc. Find all your unit members now. Put up surveys that can be done and compiled to take forward to the hill and to the media. It is time you all come together because the WAR AFTER THE WAR is more brutal that you can imagine!

UK GULF WAR ILLNESS: DU Situation Report

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So much is going on behind the scenes and time to update all American Citizens and especially the Gulf War/Desert Storm Veterans. It has been 20 years and there are battle lines on the isue of Gulf War illness not just in the US but with each coalition force that were part of the Coalition that went to Saudi/Iraq 1990-91. But with the US government being the main Log Jam to getting information out.