Tag Archives: TBI

Oct 24: Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes’ Research Leads to Improved Compensation for Injured Veterans

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Team VCS

October 23, 2008 – Research spearheaded by Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Linda Bilmes is making an impact on the lives of injured American veterans. One of the signature injuries of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is traumatic brain injury … Continue reading →

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Living With Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Team VCS

October 21, 2008, Kansas City, MO – Marshall Dial sits at the picnic table and slides packages of chocolate wafers and licorice sticks to his friend, a fellow Iraq war veteran. “They didn’t have MoonPies,” Dial says. His friend looks … Continue reading →

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Iraq War Veteran Tammy Duckworth Promotes Illinois PTSD Site

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Team VCS

October 20, 2008 – Nearly four years after Tammy Duckworth lost her legs in Iraq, she is breaking new ground in her role as director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. As an Illinois National Guard major and former … Continue reading →

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Oct 17: TV Ad Features Disabled Iraq War Veteran with TBI

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Team VCS

Veterans for Common Sense doesn’t endorse candidates.  We want our members to see that the concerns of disabled veterans are now a part of the political campaign. Disabled veteran speaks in stunning ad October 16, 2008 – A new ad … Continue reading →

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Oct 15, VCS Legislative Update: Congress Takes Bold Leadership

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Team VCS

VCS promotes policies to improve veterans’ lives. Please celebrate with us all the veteran-friendly legislation VCS supported this year. Our VCS mission is to raise the unique voices of veterans on issues related to caring for our service members and … Continue reading →

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Making it Home – Story of Blind Iraq War Veteran’s Recovery

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Team VCS

October 8, 2008 – Six weeks after James Fair, a 22-year-old combat engineer, began serving in Iraq in the fall of 2003, he detonated a homemade bomb while walking away from a barbed wire fence he had just erected near … Continue reading →

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Pentagon Researches Alternative Treatments

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Team VCS

October 8, 2008 – The Pentagon is seeking new ways to treat troops suffering from combat stress or brain damage by researching such alternative methods as acupuncture, meditation, yoga and the use of animals as therapy, military officials said. “This … Continue reading →

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Oct 8, Editorial Column About VCS-VUFT Lawsuit Against VA: The New Suspect Class – Tragically, Our Veterans

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Team VCS

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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Oct 1, Legislative Update: Keeping the Promise, Accomplishments for Our Nation’s Veterans in the 110th Congress

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Team VCS

October 1, 2008 – When I became Chairman of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the VA was strained to its breaking point by years of chronic underfunding and a “business as usual” attitude.  The Committee set out an aggressive agenda … Continue reading →

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AFGE Urges Congress to Pass Veterans Health Care Budget Reform Act

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Team VCS

September 18, 2008, Washington, DC – The American Federation of Government Employees, (AFGE), which represents 180,000 employees throughout the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), today criticized the current discretionary VA funding process and urged Congress to move on the Veterans … Continue reading →

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