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| VA Secretary Pressed by Senator on High Percentage of Wrongly Denied Benefit Claims |
March 16, 2010, Washington, DC (CQ Politics) - A leading Republican senator on Tuesday asked Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain why so many veterans’ benefit claims are wrongly denied, resulting in a high rate of reversal on appeal. |
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| Profile of New Veterans' Courts in New York Times |
Defendants Fresh From War Find Service Counts in Court - VCS Supports Veterans' Courts March 15, 2010, Charleston, West Virginia (New York Times) — When Judge Robert C. Chambers handed down Timothy Oldani’s federal sentence for selling stolen military equipment on eBay, he gave the former Marine a break. |
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| Presdent Obama Donated $250,000 of Nobel Prize Money to Fisher House |
March 11, 2010, Washington, DC (New York Times) - President Obama made good on his promise to give his $1.4 million Nobel Prize money to charity, releasing the names on Thursday of the organizations that will benefit. |
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| Philanthropist Bobby Willis to Build New $3.3 Billion Hospital for VA in Farmington, NM for Rural and Native American Veterans |
Proposed state-of-the-art Kirtland veterans clinic could provide as many as 8,000 jobs March 14, 2010, Farmington, New Mexico (Farmington Daily Times) — A proposed veterans complex in Kirtland centered around a new hospital, backed by a wealthy entrepreneur and costing an estimated $3.3 billion promises to bring state-of-the-art medicine and other benefits to veterans, as well as 8,000 jobs to the local economy. |
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| Dr. Haley at UTSW Presents Compelling Brain Images Showing Gulf War Illness |
VCS Asks VA: Since UTSW Research Remains Vital to Understanding Gulf War Illness, Then Why Did a Handful of VA Staff in Washington Impede UTSW Contract and Then End Funding for UTSW? March 9, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah (Science News) - Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out a host of brain images – various types of magnetic-resonance scans and brain-wave measurements – that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. |
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VCS Cited in New Book, "Shake the Devil Off," by Ethan Brown
Written by Paul Sullivan
Tuesday, 01 September 2009 00:00
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September 1, 2009 - In his outstanding new book, "Shake the Devil Off," Ethan Brown has composed a serious and epic tragedy about love, war, hurricanes, and the brutality of betrayal. This must-read book about Zack Bowen, his girlfriend Addie, his wife Lana, their families, their friends, and the 527th Military Police Company during the Iraq War stands an overwhelming cautionary tale of what will continue happening because the military and VA continue allowing too many veterans to fall into the cracks when they come home. Full Disclosure - Ethan Brown cites the VCS review of Zack's Bowen's military service and military medical records. Every military general and every VA leader should take the time and carefully read this book to understand how the hubris and incompetence of a few government leaders often leads to massive pain, suffering, and death. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki should put "Shake the Devil Off" at the top of their reading list as a superbly written account of how everything could and did go wrong for a soldier and his family during and after the Iraq War. Ethan Brown's meticulously detailed reporting encapsulates how a war and a storm came home to America - with a brutal vengeance that will reverberate for generations in New Orleans and across the country. "Shake the Devil Off" is the story of Iraq War veteran Zack Bowen and his new girlfriend Addie Hall. The couple crashed at the dangerous intersection where the Iraq War fiasco that severely damaged our military crossed the path of Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophe that nearly eliminated New Orleans. The tragic consequence was a notorious murder - suicide that captured international attention. The psychological consequences of war are very real. The carefully collected facts in the book show that the transition from combat to community for our Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans remains mired in crisis after more than seven years of war. Shake the Devil Off - A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans |