News Analysis: June 24, 2009
A bill to end delays in veterans’ care. Many of our veterans’ claims remain unprocessed, their pains untreated. Our combat veterans need help, now. How many of our troops must return from war and struggle with life back home before the nation starts helping? How many more hearts and minds, and lives, must be lost before we demand full medical care for our psychologically injured troops? The stresses they’re under are massive, and the rate of self-medicating with drugs and alcohol is alarming. We must help them rebuild their lives.
A website for post-9/11 GI Bill transfers.
Iraq is still troubling our troops, even as blast walls come down in Baghdad. Pakistan continues to heat up. North Korea continues to worry the world.
Congress asks the CIA to review Gulf War illness data after learning that some 1.5 million documents exist detailing poisonous gas exposure during Operation Desert Storm.