Rachel talks with IAVA director Paul Rieckhoff about the need to push for adequate veterans’ benefits. Recent reports have highlighted the alarmingly high suicide statistics amongst active duty military personnel and I have reported in the past that one in four homeless once served their country.
Due to the nature of the wars in Iraq and Aghanistan more military personnel are likely to see or experience combat trauma, sufffer from mental illness and become homeless. Read more from CNN Officials say many more Iraq and...
Read MoreFor 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreA letter is circulating around Coquille and the author claims to be the sister of a local business owner and police chief wife. The author claims to have been inspired by something called ‘Oprah’s Big Give’,...
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 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 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 MoreIAVA lobbying Congress to improve funding for our fighting men and women. Follow up here to send your support to Congress and to write your local papers and inform the public.
Read MoreNews Corp, owner of Fox News did not want to allow access to a contingent of veterans delivering over 17,000 signatures regarding O’Reilly’s denial that any vets are homeless. How does someone with so little...
Read MoreIt 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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