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• Veterans for Common Sense Returns

  Created: 2007-04-07 05:00:00 Author: Paul Sullivan

  April 2, 2007 Dear VCS Members and Supporters:
  
  Veterans for Common Sense is ...

• DoD Accused of Fuzzy Math in Iraq and Afghanistan War Injury Reports

  Created: 2007-03-31 05:00:00 Author: Suzanne Gamboa

  March 31, 2007 -  Leaving out non-combat wounds softens war’s blow, vets groups say

  Failure to Use DoD Casualty Tracking System Caused Gaps in Soldiers' Medical Care

  Created: 2007-03-30 05:00:00 Author: Ian Urbina and Ron Nixon

  March 30, 2007 - Lapses in using a digital medical record system for tracking wounded soldiers have led to medical mistakes and delays in care, and have kept thousands of injure...

• Bob Woodruff Reports: To Iraq and Back

  Created: 2007-03-27 05:00:00 Author: Bob Woodruff

  February 27, 2007 - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his team ran over a bomb while out on patrol with U.S. troops in Iraq last year.

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• Army Deployed Seriously Injured Troops to Iraq War

  Created: 2007-03-26 05:00:00 Author: Mark Benjamin

  March 26, 2007 -  Last November, Army Spc. Edgar Hernandez, a communications specialist with a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, had surgery on an ankle he had injured duri...

• VA Needs Reform - VCS Letter to the Editor

  Created: 2007-03-21 05:00:00 Author: Paul Sullivan

  March 21, 2007 -  Letter to the Editor,

   

  New Veterans' Claims are Stressing the VA System

  Created: 2007-03-14 05:00:00 Author: David Goldstein

  March 14, 2007 -  More than a quarter of the discharged veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns have filed injury claims with the government, according to an internal Dep...

• Straining to Keep a Promise: Backlogs, Long Waits Plague VA Hospital System

  Created: 2007-03-11 05:00:00 Author: Charles Sennott

  March 11, 2007 -  Jeffrey Lennon returned from Iraq to his hometown of Plymouth a broken man. Soon enough, he would also be a very angry man.

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• Veterans Face Vast Inequities Over VA Disability Payments

  Created: 2007-03-09 05:00:00 Author: Ian Urbina and Ron Nixon

  March 9, 2007 -  Staff Sgt. Gregory L. Wilson, from the Texas National Guard, waited nearly two years for his veterans' disability check after he was injured in Iraq. If he had been...

• Problems at Other VA Facilities, Panel Told

  Created: 2007-03-09 05:00:00 Author: Hope Yen, Associated Press

  March 9, 2007 -  A program to fix bureaucratic breakdowns between the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments was shelved soon after VA Secretary Jim Nicholson took office, accord...

• Husband 'Not the Same' After Iraq Explosion

  Created: 2007-03-08 05:00:00 Author: Libby Creagh

  March 8, 2007, Campbell, CA  -  Gina Hardy never had a chance to enjoy her husband's homecoming from Iraq. He returned with back problems, a bad knee and another injury no one cou...

• Under VA Chief, Effort to Aid Wounded Vets Stalled, Ex-Employee Charges

  Created: 2007-03-07 05:00:00 Author: Brian Ross and Justin Rood

  March 7, 2007 -  A proposal to keep seriously wounded vets from falling through the cracks of the bureaucracy was shelved in 2005 when Jim Nicholson took over as the secretary of th...

• Plan to Help Vets Killed in 2005

  Created: 2007-03-07 05:00:00 Author: Brian Ross

  March 7, 2007 - A 2005 plan to care for wounded troops was killed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

   

• Walter Reed, on the Cheap

  Created: 2007-03-06 05:00:00 Author: Mark Benjamin

  March 6, 2007 -  It is now becoming more widely known that for years some soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered neglect and poor care at Walter Ree...

• Pentagon Lowers Casualty Totals, Excludes Injured and Ill from Total

  Created: 2007-02-02 05:00:00 Author: Denise Grady

  February 2, 2007 - Statistics on a Pentagon Web site have been reorganized in a way that lowers the published totals of American nonfatal casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  
  Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, deputy director of force health protection ...

• VA Lowers Casualty Count - Says Higher Casualty Total Was Posted in Error

  Created: 2007-01-30 05:00:00 Author: Denise Grady

  January 30, 2007 - For the last few months, anyone who consulted the Veterans Affairs Department's Web site to learn how many American troops had been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan would have found this number: 50,508.

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• Human and Financial Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: Up to 700,000 Patients and $700 Billion

  Created: 2007-01-08 05:00:00 Author: Libby Creagh

  January 8, 2007 - The human and financial cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is staggering – more than 700,000 new war veterans are expected to flood into VA hospitals in the next ten years, many for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic...

• VA Lists "Lessons Learned" from 1991 Gulf War

  Created: 2003-03-23 05:00:00 Author: James H. Binns

  February 23, 2003 - The mission of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses (RAC-GWVI), according to its charter and the act of Congress that created it, is to make recommendations regarding medical research on Gulf War illnesses...

• Gulf War II: More Land Mines

  Created: 2003-03-19 05:00:00 Author: Eugene Carroll and Rachel Stohl

  February 19, 2003 - Washington - While UN inspectors are searching for dangerous weapons hidden in Iraq by Saddam Hussein, they must also be wary of American weapons already lurking there.

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• Soldiers, Lawmakers Sue Bush to Block Iraq War

  Created: 2003-03-13 05:00:00 Author: Greg Frost

  February 13, 2003 - "The president is not a king," attorney John Bonifaz told reporters shortly after he filed the civil lawsuit in Boston federal court.
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