Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Decision Pends on Halt to VA Human Research at LR

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Team VCS

August 7, 2008 – The U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ top health official will hold off on deciding whether to halt human research at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System until the institution corrects problems identified in a federal … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: The Walking Wounded

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Team VCS

August 7, 2008 – Two weeks ago an important new part of helping Space Coast veterans opened its doors — and its arms. It’s the Melbourne Veterans Center, a walk-in facility designed like other such clinics nationwide to aid returning … Continue reading →

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Coffee House by Fort Lewis Would Support Veterans

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Team VCS

August 6, 2008 – A group of local veterans hopes to launch a coffeehouse near Fort Lewis where soldiers – both active-duty and out of the military – could brew both good java and good company. The coffeehouse would be … Continue reading →

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Aug 6, Whistleblower Update: VA Doctor Responds to VA IG Report About Wasted TBI Research Money

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Team VCS

Dr. Robert Van Boven, hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct research into traumatic brain injuries to develop treatments for veterans, filed a whistleblower complaint with VA’s Office of the Inspector General in February 2008.  Dr. Van Boven’s … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Supporting Our Troops – Swift Passage a Must for Veterans’ Bill

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Team VCS

August 5, 2008 – They put their lives on the line to protect us — our country, our freedoms, our way of life. The least we can do is make sure they receive the appropriate and necessary care they — … Continue reading →

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A Surgeon’s Guidebook to the Horrors of Battle

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Team VCS

August 5, 2008 – The pictures show shredded limbs, burned faces, profusely bleeding wounds. The subjects are mostly American GI’s, but they include Iraqis and Afghans, some of them young children. They appear in a new book, “War Surgery in … Continue reading →

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August 6, VA Research Scandal: Violations Rife in Hospital’s Studies on Veterans

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Team VCS

August 5, 2008 – An investigation of research conducted at an Arkansas veterans hospital has uncovered rampant violations in its human experiments program, including missing consent forms, secret HIV testing and failure to report more than 100 deaths of subjects … Continue reading →

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Aug. 6 Representatives in Action: House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Priorities for the 110th Congress

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Team VCS

What Congress has done for Veterans.  Below is a comprehensive list of priorities and actions of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs for the 110th Congress.  Priority:  Adequate & Timely Funding for Veterans * The House of Representatives approved the funding … Continue reading →

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CIA Veteran Rips Agency, Tests Limits of Right to Publish Without Permission

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Team VCS

August 2, 2008 – A 25-year veteran of the CIA’s clandestine service has written a scathing — and unauthorized — account of the spy agency’s management, setting up an unprecedented legal test of former employees’ rights to pen tell-all books. … Continue reading →

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War is Rough, but Returning’s Rougher, Says Iraq War Vet

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Team VCS

August 5, 2008, Port Angeles, WA – After death and destruction were your daily diet in Iraq, civilian life seems hard to swallow. Certain things also stick in your craw. “Why are you so angry all the time?” is one … Continue reading →

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