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John has been empaneled and testified before a group of college board regents as to what veterans need to be successful, post combat, in school.
Read MoreJohn has been empaneled and testified before a group of college board regents as to what veterans need to be successful, post combat, in school.
Read MoreThe superbly done photo essay, montage now showing at the New American Art Union in Portland, Exit Wounds: Combat Trauma and the trials of homecoming, is earning rave reviews. Jim Lommasson’s photographic work surrounded by photos taken from the veterans themselves tells a story that we will not see in mainstream media. Dahr Jamail who has reported from Iraq and is author of ‘Beyond the Green Zone’, writes for IPS News
Read MoreBronze star recipient Sgt Nils Aron Andersson, combat veteran turned recruiter, originally from Oregon commits suicide. Married only 24 hours earlier, his new wife follows him and commits suicide a day later. “He was...
Read MoreThis is how we ‘support our troops’ in America. Wave your flags and display your magnets and then really support the troops and write Congress!
Read MoreInstead of losing 15lbs in Iraq, now the average soldier in Baghdad is gaining ten. Hidden in the bloat is a segue into the outrageous profits reaped by KBR, Burger King and Pizza Hut. In the end it is the warrior who pays the...
Read MoreI have written about this before but the VA has acknowledged that on average 126 veterans, 18 per day are committing suicide. Brig. Gen. Michael J. Kussman, the undersecretary for health at the VA, sent the email, dated Dec. 15,...
Read MoreNo one volunteered to be ‘stop lossed’ repeatedly into Iraq. Reestablishing a draft would be politically imprudent and detrimental to the continued war effort as envisioned by the administration. Consequently, our...
Read MoreTraumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder both characterized by severe physiological and irreparable damage to the brain are subject of a new study released by the RAND Corporation. “There is a major health...
Read MoreWriter Robert Fisk discusses the semantics employed by George Bush. In particular, apparently to ‘re-educate’ the public about the truth in Iraq, Bush’s use of words beginning with ‘re’. Note, too,...
Read MoreWe have met yet another grim milestone as the 4000th soldier has been killed in Iraq. As I have written before, nothing is more demoralizing to the troops than public complacency and the Iraq war has faded from view in the news....
Read MoreA fellow peace activist wrote this and gave me permission to post it here. It is moving and thoughtful and attends to the too little attention given by the mainstream media upon these gut wrenching testimonies of our wounded...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post Former Marine Jon Turner began his presentation by ripping his service medals off his shirt and tossing them into the first row. He then narrated a series of graphic photographs showing bloody victims...
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