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Congressman Mitchell: Pausing to Consider People Who REALLY Matter

Chairman Harry Mitchell is a Hero to Veterans Nationwide

August 20, 2010 (Arizona Republic) - It's been a month since I spoke to Rep. Harry Mitchell about suicides among military veterans and I'm just getting around to writing something.

What Obama Won't Say Tonight About US Withdrawal from Iraq

August 31, 2010 (ConsortiumNews) - President Barack Obama’s aides say his speech this evening marking the end of "combat operations" in Iraq will avoid the vainglorious aspects of President George W. Bush’s infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech in 2003. We’ll see.

Lawsuit Update: Prudential's Half-Billion in Dirty Secret Profits

Families of Dead Soldiers Sue Insurer Over Its Handling of Survivors’ Benefits

August 29, 2010 (New York Times) - Vickie Castro’s only child was killed six years ago just before Christmas, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside an Army mess tent in Mosul, Iraq, killing more than 20 people.

Op-Ed: Cost of War Must Also Include Caring for Our Veterans

Overlooked Cost of Iraq / Afghanistan Wars: Our Veterans' Healthcare and Benefits

August 15, 2010 (San Francisco Chronicle) - Two years after an Army specialist saw half his platoon torn apart in Iraq, he hanged himself in a California backyard.

VA Secretary Shinseki's Open Message to Gulf War Veterans

August 11, 2010, Washington, DC (VA Press Release) - August 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Gulf War, launched with Operation Desert Shield and followed by Operation Desert Storm. VA honors this milestone with a renewed commitment to improving our responsiveness to the challenges facing Gulf War Veterans.

Veterans Articles & News

Veterans Healthcare and Disability Veterans for Common Sense posts articles, news and other related items about the readjustment needs and concerns of our veterans, with a special emphasis on access to prompt healthcare and disability benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

VCS Fights for DU Research: Iraq War Veteran From Ridgewood Seeks Clues to Mystery Illness

Written by Michael Sedon

Friday, 21 May 2010 14:43

May 21, 2010 (NorthJersey.com) - A Ridgewood resident and Iraq War veteran says an Army blunder has caused him months of pain, first by denying him medical coverage because it lost information proving he served in the war and then misdiagnosing his illness.

Written by Rob Baedeker

Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:34

May 10, 2010 (San Francisco Chronicle) - It's the middle of a weekday afternoon, and as we sit near the "New Age and spirituality" section of a Barnes and Noble in Fremont, Steven Pinto, a 25-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran, explains to me the protocol following a hit by an improvised explosive device, or IED.

Written by Eliot Van Buskirk

Thursday, 20 May 2010 08:57

May 19, 2010 (Wired Magazine) - One year ago this Friday, United States chief information officer Vivek Kundra launched an ambitious website called Data.gov to make the government’s vast stores of data available to the public. The thinking behind the site then, as now, was to give app developers access to these rich, comprehensive datasets on all sorts of topics "health care, education, energy, the environment and so on" in the hope that they would create useful tools for analyzing a range of information, from air quality by county to crime statistics by neighborhood and foreign aid by nation.

Written by Lyda Longa

Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:13

May 12, 2010 (The Daytona Beach News Journal) - Iraq veteran Joshua Gerard was discharged from the Army last year, but the fighting never stopped within him, his family said Tuesday.

Written by Norman Moody

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:45

May 17, 2010 (Florida Today) - Robert Torrez spent 26 years on active duty and reserve military service that took him to Operation Desert Storm, to Asia and Panama.

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