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Views Expand Medicare to Serve All Veterans The problem of long wait times for veterans seeking care at some (but not all) Veterans Health Administration facilities has been front-page news for the past several weeks, and seems to be resulting in an unusually prompt response from a normally gridlocked Congress. The wait times and the... Read more |
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Views Memorial Day: Despair and Resilience Memorial Day is difficult for me as it is for all veterans. My annual seasonal despair is, of course, directly related to the lost lives commemorated here and to the unrelenting militarism of our country, the celebration of which is particularly pronounced on this day and the upcoming Fourth of... Read more |
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Views Memorial Day: For Vets, Too Many Delays and Not Enough Parades I love a parade. And in the small upstate New York town in the Finger Lakes where I grew up there were not enough of them as far as I was concerned. There was the occasional special event: a parade to honor the Scottish racer Malcolm Campbell the summer he spent roaring up and down our lake... Read more |
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Further U.S. To Veterans: You Can Go Fight Our Pointless Wars For Us, But You Can't Smoke Weed When You Come Home Broken Even as a new report calls for ending a war on drugs that has produced "enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage,” Congress has rejected an amendment to a veterans' funding bill to allow VA doctors in states with medical marijuana on the books to discuss medical pot - not prescribe it or... Read more |
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Views Star-Spangled Baggage: How America’s Wars Came Home With the Troops Up close, personal, and bloody Read more |
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Views Promoting a “Right to Heal” from Ft. Hood to Abu Ghraib Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are holding the U.S. government accountable for innocent victims on all sides of the fighting. Read more |
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Views Fort Hood: A Tragic Reminder of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis Anja Niedringhaus was killed and her colleague wounded on Friday when an Afghan policeman opened fire on their convoy Read more |
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Views Ft. Hood, PTSD, and the True Cost of US Wars of Choice The Ft. Hood shooter who left 3 victims dead yesterday had been being assessed for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder . He had served for 4 months at the tail end of the Iraq War in 2011 and suffered from anxiety and depression. A staggering 1 million veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars have... Read more |
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News Iraq War Veteran Kills Three, Wounds Sixteen at Fort Hood Alleged shooter, who ultimately killed himself, is reportedly an Iraq War veteran who suffered from PTSD Read more |