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Tag: Homeless veterans

Cynical manipulations

For many military families, the release this month in a report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence determining that intelligence activities leading up to the occupation of Iraq were deliberately distorted, is not a...

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VA seeks to curtail PTSD diagnosis

The Washington Post reports that an official urged staff to cut back on PTSD diagnoses. A psychologist who helps lead the post-traumatic stress disorder program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to...

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High veteran suicide rate confirmed

I 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,...

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More on homeless veterans

It is crushing to read stories like this and to see what an ungrateful nation we really are. Worse, how we disregard our veterans is not recent occurence but has been a blemish on our history since the revolutionary war. Today,...

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