What's New
| 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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| 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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| March 9 VCS Weekly Update |
This week’s VCS update keeps you in the loop with news on issues you care about. One good change – our weekly news updates won’t ask you for money. Instead, our news updates point you to news articles at our web site. We hope you will read them and share the important facts with your friends. This week's update includes news about VA and suicides, VCS on CNN, our VCS FOIA campaign, VA automating Agent Orange claims, a waterboarding torture video, and Gulf War veterans' benefits. |
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| Federal Court Keeps Torture Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Alive |
What's Waterboarding? Watch Video of Torture March 5, 2010, Chicago, Illinois (Associated Press) - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm. [Rumsfeld served at the Pentagon under former President George W. Bush.] |
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| Reducing Suicides: VA Adopts Policy on Emergency Care for Mental Health Patients |
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive provides policy to ensure the provision of safe and secure mental health services during all hours of operation for Emergency Departments (EDs) and Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) in VHA |
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Free Legal Representation for Those Who Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan War Zones
Written by Paul Sullivan
Monday, 22 June 2009 11:17
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June 18, 2009, Washington, DC – Veterans for Common Sense proudly announces our new partnership with Lawyers Serving Warriors™ to help our VCS members who were deployed in the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) or Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) war zones so they receive the military and VA disability benefits to which they are entitled.
Lawyers Serving Warriors™ is a special project of the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP). This project provides free legal representation to former and current active duty personnel who served in OIF or OEF through a national network of hundreds of lawyers. These lawyers are trained to represent those who deployed to the Iraq or Afghanistan war zones with: • Appealing a decision on a VA claim for disability or death benefits – for a veteran or a surviving spouse • Appealing a Physical Evaluation Board decision to discharge a service member with a disability rating below 30% -- an appeal which, if successful, would entitle the veteran to lifetime military disability retirement payments and free lifetime health care for the veteran and his or her family • Appealing a discharge from military service for a personality disorder • Representing active duty personnel before a military Medical Evaluation Board or Physical Evaluation Board • Filing a claim for Traumatic Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (TSGLI) or appealing denial of a TSGLI claim To apply to Lawyers Serving Warriors™ for free legal representation in one of these five types of cases, go to LawyersServingWarriors.com and complete the form on the page. Please write “I am a member of VCS” as part of your response to the final question -- which is “Please describe your situation, including what you would like assistance with.”
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