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New Military Video Offers Mental Health Advice
June 5, 2008, Wellesley Hills, MA – In honor of Mental Health Month, the Department of Defense is launching a new educational video depicting how service members and their families may be affected by combat and deployment stress. “A Different … Continue reading
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June 15, VCS in the News: Dead Marine’s Family Says Iraq War Veteran with PTSD Did Not Get Proper Care
Chad Oligschlaeger was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder when he was found in barracks, parents say. “There’s more help available,” said Paul Sullivan, the executive director of the advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense. “But it’s got to get a … Continue reading
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Jewish General to Pilot Evangelical-Friendly Air Force
June 12, 2008 – When he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., in the early 1970s, Norton Schwartz did not hide his religion under his blue-and-white uniform. A member of the academy’s Jewish choir … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: Mental Wounds Said to Raise War Casualties Tenfold
June 13, 2008 – Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, charged Bush administration officials Wednesday with continuing to downplay the mental trauma and brain injuries suffered by veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Filner … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: The Iraq War Becomes Suicidal
June 12, 2008 – I gave a dollar to a shabbily dressed young man holding a “help me” sign on a Market Street in San Francisco. Most Saturday shoppers, many of them foreign tourists taking advantage of the cheap dollar, … Continue reading
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Plan Would Lift Saudi Oil Output to Highest Ever
June 14, 2008 – Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a day, according to analysts and oil traders who have been briefed by Saudi officials. The … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: A Victory for the Rule of the Law
June 13, 2008 – It shouldn’t be necessary for the Supreme Court to tell the president that he can’t have people taken into custody, spirited to a remote prison camp and held indefinitely, with no legal right to argue that … Continue reading
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Rapture-Ready Evangelicals Impersonate Army Officers – Bush Administration Gives Organization Members Award
June 13, 2008 – A few days ago, a tip was sent to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) research department to check out an organization called Marshall Minute Military Ministries. MRFF has investigated a seemingly endless stream of evangelical … Continue reading
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Veterans Affairs Tells Court it Can’t Imagine Voter Registration Drives for Its Wounded Veterans and the Homeless
June 12, 2008 – An attorney for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs hospitals and homeless shelters for veterans, told a federal appeals court Thursday that the VA could not conceive of any circumstance where voter registration drives could … Continue reading
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Review Finds Discrepancies in VA Care for Men,Women
June 13, 2008 – A review by the Department of Veterans Affairs finds that women veterans aren’t receiving the same quality of outpatient care as men at about one-third of its facilities. The review obtained by The Associated Press appears … Continue reading
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