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Sad Statistics for Veterans
A damning report released by the Harvard Medical School sheds sobering light on the plight of war veterans. They estimate that 2,266 vets died last year because they had no health insurance! This works out to 6 "preventable" deaths per day..TWICE the...
Tags: Veterans, death, Harvard, study, healthcare, insurance, Boston, Military personnel, Veteran, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, allnews
Veterans parade NYC
It was very interesting for me being European to see for the first time a National or Military Parade in the streets of New York. It was not very busy and to my amazement the traffic control policemen would stop/start the car and pedestrian traffic in...
Tags: parade, veterans, 2009, new york, fifth avenue, military, Military personnel, Veteran, Entertainment Culture, New York City
Indianapolis pauses to thank veterans
Fort Wayne :: IN :: USA | 11 days ago
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Thousands of Hoosiers attended a Veterans Day service at the Indiana War Memorial today, then lined Pennsylvania Street to cheer service members and high school bands playing patriotic music for a parade under crisp, sunny skies. The annual service on...
Tags: veterans, veteran, parade, military, war memorial, indiana war
Mothers and Soldiers: Healing the bonds destroyed by war
The bonds established between mothers and children are sacred. Mothers provide unconditional love, caring and support, and teaching children to live in the world with a sense of purpose. But life circumstances oftentimes get in the way of relationships...
Tags: Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Veterans, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, families, mothers, U.S. military, Susan Galleymore, John Kerry, americans cultures, palestinian boys, Middle East, War Conflict
Birmingham salutes Veterans Day
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility Ray Schumacher from Anapolis, Md., salutes as he walks in the National Veterans Day Parade in downtown Birmingham on Wednesday.
Tags: veterans day, veterans, veteran, parade, Birmingham, downtown birmingham
LEST WE FORGET...November 11th Poem
I wrote this 2 years ago for our Remembrance Day marked on November 11th each year. I dedicate it to our Canadian Troops trying to help the embattled peoples of Afghanistan. FACING EAST A Sentinel faces East Away from City Hall Bronze-clad bold...
Tags: veterans, canada, remembrance, November 11th
Veteran Info Being asked.
Is it truly for a naitonal survey or something more? Given the state of things from the pandemic, national emergency declared and a ufo disclosure being planned and banks across America and Europe this week-end all having scheduled maintenace it poses...
Tags: Veterans, survey, information, politics
Injured Vets Seeking Closure Return to Iraq
The military has been aiding injured veterans to return to Iraq to help them find closure and assure them that their sacrifices were worth it. Operation Proper Exit—believed to be the first such program to facilitate vets' return to a battlefield...
Tags: Operation Proper Exit, veterans, veteran military, Iraq, Iran, Soilders, Injured
GI Bill Kink Sends Vets To Brink
The new G.I Bill, which went into effect August 1st, was to cover college expenses for all veterans who served in the military since 9/11. However, when nearly 300,000 vets signed up, the veterans department, with its antiquated technology, flopped. Just...
Tags: freedom, GI, GI Bill, America, politics, news opinion, veterans, VA, veterans affairs, health care reform, illegal immigrants, Vietnam, war, world news, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, education benefits, veterans department, unemployment, tuition, homeless programs, national news, benefits
1,000+ veterans may receive false letters claiming they were dying of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS)
Will veterans be reimbursed for the money they spent for second medical opinions outside the VA system? Fortunately, the Veteran's Administration (VA) is calling those sent the letters by mistake. The National Gulf War Resource Center told...
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