Far too often, military veterans find themselves desperately short of the information they need as they make the torturous quest for benefits within one of this country’s most daunting bureaucracies, the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Officials say help…
Read More »Jason Forrester, VFA’s Director of Policy, joins guest host Frank Sesno on the Diane Rehm show for an examination of medical, mental health, and other needs of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the efforts to improve the…
Read More »By Brad Rhen, Lebanon Daily News
A report released Thursday by a veterans advocacy group claims Pennsylvania National Guard members have borne a “disproportionate share of the burden” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But a Pennsylvania National Guard official said…
Read More »The Atlantic, October 27, 2008
By Brian Mockenhaupt
This summer, Congress surprised me with an unexpected but welcome gift. A House subcommittee on defense appropriations had approved $500 for each month that a service member was retained under stop-loss, the policy by…
Read More »Anchorage Daily News, October 17, 2008
Alaska Army National Guard members who are deployed overseas , as well as their families, deserve better support than they’re getting, but Tuesday’s report from the Veterans for America went overboard with its criticism of…
Read More »By Candace Heckman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oct. 2, 2008
Thursday’s the night conservative America has been waiting for. The night where many hope Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be able to prove to detractors and doubters that she has the chops to…
Read More »The Humanitarian: Bobby Muller
A bullet transformed him from bad-ass Marine to peace activist. A Vietnam vet triumphs over his disability and educates others.
By: Cecilia Capuzzi Simon, Psychology Today
When he was a young soldier fighting in the Vietnam War, says Bobby…
Read More »William C. Danvers, UPI
The surge of 33,000 U.S. troops last year in Iraq is a focal point of the foreign policy debate between the two presidential candidates. Advocates say it is solely responsible for the improved security situation in Iraq…
Read More »Sabrina Eaton, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
WASHINGTON — Army Spc. Justin Sheeter of Wooster would like extra pay for the extra time he’s had to spend in Afghanistan fixing trucks for the 101st Airborne Divison.
Although his enlistment was supposed to…
Read More »Lizette Alvarez, the New York Times
Most nights when Anthony Klecker, a former marine, finally slept, he found himself back on the battlefields of Iraq. He would awake in a panic, and struggle futilely to return to sleep.
Days were scarcely better.…
Read More »Today is the sixth anniversary of the start of our most recent war in Iraq. News reports marking the occasion will no doubt note that combat deaths are now lower than at earlier stages in this war — a silver…
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