Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

January 25, 2008 – Paul Wolfowitz, the former World Bank president and former deputy secretary of defense who was instrumental in the US decision to invade Iraq in 2003, has been named chairman of a panel that advises the State … Continue reading →

January 26, 2008 – Legend has it that two thousand years ago President Bush’s favorite philosopher dodged the treason bullet by giving a group of Pharisees his honest opinion on the separation of church and state. Appreciating the wisdom in … Continue reading →

January 26, 2008 – Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are calling for $2 million in additional funding for the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Hawaii senator says many of the servicemen and women … Continue reading →

Edwards visits Jeff City, touts health care for all, higher minimum wage and an end to Iraq war Jefferson City, Missouri, January 29, 2009 – John Edwards brought his populist campaign to central Missouri Tuesday, invoking the names of Harry … Continue reading →

January 27, 2008 – After serving in the Navy in World War II, Marylander Charles Schelberg was able to attend Washington College in Chestertown thanks to the GI Bill, which covered all his costs. Mr. Schelberg, who hailed from a … Continue reading →

Press Conference with Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn at Pritzker Military Library on Tuesday, January 29th at 1:30 PM on the Mandatory Full Funding of VA Healthcare Referendum that appears on the February 5th Primary Ballot in Cook and 21 other … Continue reading →

January 25, 2008 – Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006. He has 32 pins in his hip and … Continue reading →

January 25, 2008 – Contrary to the line famously quoted by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, old soldiers do die. And as they do, the organizations they kept alive are fading away. Veterans of World War II are dying at a rate … Continue reading →

January 25, 2008 – A claim by an Eight Mile man that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder — the result of being “waterboarded” during a Navy survival course in 1975 — is a rare one, according to a Department … Continue reading →

January 26, 2008 – Thanks to the state budget crisis, John Rains may soon lose his bunkmate.Rains, 84, served in the Army Air Corps’ Pacific campaign during World War II. For the past four years, the Missouri native has lived … Continue reading →