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Draft Government Report: Applying for VA Benefits in Advance, Before Leaving Military, Works
October 9, 2008 – A program allowing injured active-duty members to apply for veterans’ disability benefits before they separate is reducing the financial strain on wounded troops in the months before they leave service, according to a draft report by … Continue reading
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Tagged backlog, VA Claims Crisis
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Oct 8, Editorial Column About VCS-VUFT Lawsuit Against VA: The New Suspect Class – Tragically, Our Veterans
Spring, 2008 Edition – One of the most obscure discrimination issues existing today relates to our country’s treatment of its veterans, a group that hardly qualifies under the legal definition of a “suspect class” as currently conceived. Nevertheless, it remains … Continue reading
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Tagged backlog, TBI, VA Claims Crisis
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Editorial Column: Obama’s Edge Over McCain on Iraq War
October 7, 2008 – Both McCain’s and Obama’s Iraq policies are too ambiguous for the layperson to comprehend. It is clear that if you want to expedite the process of getting out of Iraq, Obama is your candidate. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged terrorism
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Soldier Claims Sergeant Wanted His Wife Slain for $30,000
October 7, 2008, Fayetteville, NC – A Fort Bragg soldier repeatedly asked an 18-year-old colleague to kill his wife — also a soldier — and eventually offered $30,000 for the deed to be carried out, the teenager told authorities in … Continue reading
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‘My Daughter’s Dream Became a Nightmare’: The Murder of Military Women Continues
October 6, 2008 – “My daughter’s dream became a nightmare,” sadly said Gloria Barrios, seven months after her daughter, US Air Force Senior Airman Blanca Luna, was murdered on Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. On March 7, 2008, Senior Airman … Continue reading
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Pakistan Government Facing Bankruptcy
October 6, 2008 – Officially, the central bank holds $8.14 billion (£4.65 billion) of foreign currency, but if forward liabilities are included, the real reserves may be only $3 billion – enough to buy about 30 days of imports like … Continue reading
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30 Civilians Died in Afghan Raid, U.S. Inquirty Finds
October 7, 2008 – An investigation by the military has concluded that American airstrikes on Aug. 22 in a village in western Afghanistan killed far more civilians than American commanders there have acknowledged, according to two American military officials. The … Continue reading
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Oct 7, VCS Mentioned in Editorial Column About Torture: Even Blind Justice Sees Through the Bush Administration
October 6, 2008 – Justice may be blind, sometimes deaf and too often dumb, but every once in a while it still gets something right. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ordered the government to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Ghraib, ACLU, Civil Liberties Articles & News, Guantanamo, torture
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Pentagon Asks Troops to Rate Health Care
October 3, 2008 – The Pentagon is asking wounded, ill or injured service members and their families to rate their medical care in an anonymous poll that officials hope will encourage candor. The Defense Department on Thursday posted questionnaires on … Continue reading
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Mind Training Helps Troops with Combat, Then PTSD
October 7, 2008, Camp Lejeune, NC – The explosion of practice mortars sent Army Spc. Kade Williams into panic attacks, and nightmares plagued his sleep. The ravages of post-traumatic stress had left the veteran of the war in Afghanistan vulnerable, … Continue reading
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