Yearly Archives: 2005

Bush may cut program for vets going to college When Katherine Hegler first tried college after leaving the Army, her grades were so bad that she ended up on academic probation. She left school and re-enlisted. When she returned to … Continue reading →

Breaking Ranks to Shun War An Army sergeant who refuses to return to Iraq seeks a discharge as a conscientious objector. He may instead face a court-martial. By David ZucchinoTimes Staff WriterFebruary 7, 2005 HINESVILLE, Georgia — His sergeant called … Continue reading →

Hunger for Dictatorship: War to export democracy may wreck our own Students of history inevitably think in terms of periods: the New Deal, McCarthyism, “the Sixties” (1964-1973), the NEP, the purge trials—all have their dates. Weimar, whose cultural excesses made … Continue reading →

Homeless Veterans Wait Years for Aid John Staresinich is a Purple Heart veteran who has slept in cracks in highway overpasses and abandoned cars, camped out in thin tents next to railroad tracks and fought off rats and bugs in … Continue reading →

Abuses Endangered Veterans in Cancer Drug Experiments ALBANY – Carl M. Steubing, a decorated Battle of the Bulge veteran whose experience of war made him a pacifist but also instilled in him a zest for living life at full tilt, … Continue reading →

Gay vets’ benefits at risk? As many as a million gay and lesbian veterans depend on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for health care—including many who can’t get HIV/AIDS care anywhere else. It’s reason enough for GLBT activists to … Continue reading →

Wounded in Action The first symptom was sleeplessness. It was July 2003 and Lance Corporal David McGough of the Royal Army Medical Corps was just back from a five-month tour of duty in Basra, Iraq. Lots of the lads from … Continue reading →

Troops unable to be treated for skin disease in Iraq will be seen by doctors in U.S. ARLINGTON, Virginia — U.S.-based military doctors are bracing for a wave of servicemembers returning from Iraq this spring whose treatment for a skin … Continue reading →