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Iraq Veteran Relays the Trauma, Tragedy of War
October 7, 2008 – Tuesday night, Iraq War veteran Kristofer Goldsmith tried to describe what a dead human body smells like to a wide-eyed audience of more than 50 students, professors and community members. “I can tell you that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Liberties Articles & News, torture, voting rights
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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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Rate of Sexual Assault in Army Prompts an Effort at Prevention
October 3, 2008 – The Army is launching a new war against an old foe: the lingering problem of sexual violence within the military. Last month, 80 high-ranking generals gathered at a hotel in Alexandria, Va., for a mandatory, weeklong … Continue reading
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Armed Forces in United Kingdom Facing ‘Explosion’ of Mental Illness
October 5, 2008 – The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that ex-servicemen’s charities have seen a 53{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} increase in the number of veterans seeking help since 2005, a rate which threatens to “swamp” them within a few years. The Ministry of … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulf War, mental health
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Military Families See Nov 4 Presidential Election as Crucial
October 6, 2008, Cameron, NC – For Private First Class Michael Anderson, the perils he could face on his first deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan next year are the least of his worries. Anderson, 22, says he is more concerned … Continue reading
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Oct 6 Weekly Update: Reminder to Register to Vote
VCS Speaks at Sarasota and San Francisco Events, and VCS Reminds Everyone to Register and Vote October 6, 2008 – First, some great news from our recent VCS road trips. On Saturday, October 4, more than 150 people turned out … Continue reading
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Oct 5, VCS in the News: Veterans Wait for VA Treatment After VA Doctor Deployed to War
October 5, 2008 – Bill Kunsman isn’t crazy about waiting a month to see the doctor.The 70-year-old veteran has arthritis and was recently told that one of two doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs’s Orem Outpatient Clinic was deployed, … Continue reading
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Tagged backlog, VA Claims Crisis
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Editorial Column: Veterans, Alone Together, Share Stories They Can’t Tell You
October 5, 2008 – The war on terror, which has now lasted longer than World War II, is producing a growing family of combat veterans. It’s a disconnected family, large and far-flung, but close in ways that battle-tested soldiers always … Continue reading
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One Million Weapons to Iraq; Many go Missing
September 22, 2008 – Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation. Because of faulty or non-existent government tracking systems, many of those … Continue reading
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Pentagon Hands Iraq Oil Deal to Shell
October 2, 2008 – In June of this year, Andrew Kramer, writing in the New York Times broke the story that the world’s oil giants, “Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP … along with Chevron and a number of smaller … Continue reading
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