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SOLUTIONS/BASSUK: Ending homelessness among returning war veterans
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 4 hours ago
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Bassuk In a country as affluent as ours, no one should be homeless. Yet veterans who have served their country account for one-third of adult individuals who are homeless in America. On any night, more than 130,000 veterans find themselves with no place...
Tags: social networks, returning war, war veterans, PTSD, Afghanistan, Kabul, Health Medical Pharma, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Busking, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Issues, Veteran, Socioeconomics, Humanitarian aid, Military personnel, Homelessness
Obama Administration Struggling to Tackle Mental Health Crisis Plaguing Military
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Jason Leopold and Mary Susan Littlepage, t r u t h o u t Investigative Report In May 2008, during a campaign stop in Charleston, West Virginia, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a passionate speech about the inadequate care war veterans had...
Tags: Paul Sullivan, Afghanistan, Ira Katz, health care, Iraq, Barack Obama, Army, brain injury, war veterans, care professional, San Francisco, Health Medical Pharma, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Vietnam veteran, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Issues, Eric Shinseki, Veteran, President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, Military personnel, Tammy Duckworth
Justices sympathetic to death-row veteran
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
Credibility The Supreme Court gave hope Monday to a Korean War veteran on Floridas death row, saying courts should take note of his battlefield bravery and likely post-traumatic stress in weighing whether he deserves to be executed for the murders he later committed....
Tags: The Supreme Court, korean war, George Porter, war veterans, Afghanistan, Kabul, Law Crime, Jury, Supreme Court of the United States, Oregon v. Guzek, Legal procedure, State court, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Social Issues, Veteran, Military personnel, Combat Stress
Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans
Baghdad :: Iraq | 15 days ago
Credibility Paul Zimmerman, t r u t h o u t Op-Ed The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted certain...
Tags: gulf war, VA., war illness, chromosomes aberrations, Dr. Henry Heng, war veterans, exposures event, undiagnosed illness, normal range, Institute of Medicine, Iraq, Baghdad, Nuclear materials, Depleted uranium, Environmental issues with war, Gulf War syndrome, Ionizing radiation, Radioactivity, Radiobiology, Uranium, Health Medical Pharma
Dogs of war: Inmates train pups for war veterans
Baghdad :: Iraq | 18 days ago
Credibility At the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick, New York, prison inmates are training puppies to become service dogs for wounded American war veterans. The correctional facility hosted a graduation ceremony for its newest puppies to be paired with...
Tags: prison inmates, service dogs, war veterans, Iraq, Baghdad, Service dog, Dogs, Assistance dogs, Puppy, Human Interest, Law Crime
Veterans land home for dogs
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility Often stripped of his dignity, the War Veteran is man’s best chance to live in liberty. In Los Angeles, dogs—given the full run of veteran’s property—are living far better lives than some 20,000 local War Veterans. Canada Free Press (CFP) roving War...
Tags: war veterans, Los Angeles, Eric Shinseki, Homelessness, American Legion, Military personnel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran, Health Medical Pharma, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Torture, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Waterboarding, Social Issues
War veteran settles lawsuit over display honoring soldiers
Mexico City :: Mexico | 21 days ago
Credibility A local war veteran has settled a suit he filed against his apartment complex owner for forcing him to remove a Memorial Day display honoring Hispanic veterans. John “Max” Torres Sr., 76, complained to the state bureau of Labor and Industries Civil Rights...
Tags: Albert Cook, display honoring, war veterans, Mexico, Mexico City, Politics, Human Interest
Korean War veterans honored at Hanford Cemetery
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | 23 days ago
Credibility Some held their right hands over their chests, while others offered firm salutes that belied their age and civilian clothes. The crowd had come to the American Legion Post 3's Veterans Day ceremony to honor the sacrifices made for the country by local...
Tags: korean war, war veterans, David Ritter, American Legion Post, world war, U.S, North Korea, Hanford Cemetery, war ii, Pyŏngyang, American Legion, Hanford California, Military personnel, Veteran, Vietnam veteran, Human Interest
Veterans Day ceremony stirs shivers of pride | GOOD MORNING
Dublin :: Ireland | 23 days ago
Credibility I'm always humbled listening to a veteran, especially at a special Veterans Day observance. If it's in a small town such as Ireland, Ind., all the better, because they are as fiercely proud of their veterans as any large metropolis...Sure, there were...
Tags: Ron Himsel, war veterans, Ireland, Dublin, Military personnel, Veteran, Nonnweiler
School students to apologise for Nazi behaviour in New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | about 1 month ago
Credibility A participant uploaded the images to the popular social-networking website Facebook, but they have since been removed. Auckland Grammar Principal John Morris told New Zealand's Television One news that the students were interviewed after the school was...
Tags: Nazi, Auckland, war veterans, school students
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