- 8 years ago Sticky: One Stop Shop for VA Benefits and Resources
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Texas Veterans Make Trip To DC Memorials
Veterans from across the USA have yet to visit the memorial in their honor. This is one small group finally getting their chance.
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A Generation of US and UK War Veterans Are Being Silenced
After the Remembrance Day parade, I repaired to a central London boozer with fellow veterans to stew my brain in ale. Pinned to chests all around us were glinting banks of medals. A statistically improbable number of airborne maroon and commando green berets were on display. Groups of veterans bunched together, slurring war stories.
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New drug may help combat PTSD by overriding painful memories
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a drug that may help treat people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Counsel and Heal reported. In a study published in the journal Cell, a team of neuroscientists examined the effects of a drug known as an HDAC2 inhibitor. When used in rats, the drug appeared to help the rodents overcome traumatic memories.
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Mentally ill homeless vet ‘essentially baked to death’ in New York City jail cell
A New York City official speaking to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity said that a mentally ill, homeless military veteran “essentially baked to death” in a jail cell last month. The official said that Jerome Murdough — who had been arrested on a trespassing charge and taken to an observation unit at Rikers Island — was not aware that he had to open a small vent to allow cool air to enter his cell.
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The other wounds
Most Iraq and Afghanistan veterans’ injuries didn’t occur during combat. But their ailments have become an enduring consequence of the conflicts.
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"I'm PTSD — Paid Till Suicide or Death"
An Amtrak train is a terrible place to shoot dope. My seat mate tells me this after the train jerks, causing his syringe to slip from his vein. I take his word for it. Jarek Camac and I are on our way to Los Angeles. For Jarek, a decorated Army combat veteran, it’s a trip meant to both figuratively and literally deliver him from addiction to sobriety, from his old life of using in Delaware to a clean life in California.
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Pensioner who hid medals and absconded from care home found at D-Day celebrations in France
The 89-year old was reported missing from his Hove care home but actually sneaked onboard a coach for a final reunion with his D-Day comrades across the Channel
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D-Day at 70: At Home With WWII Veterans, from the Bronx to Berlin
A three-year photography project takes us inside the homes of war vets on all sides
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This Never-Before-Seen WWII Document Offers An Inside Account Of An Elite Nazi Combat Unit's Collapse
American G.I. John Frankemolle was guarding a group of captured German soldiers in Europe during World War II when an intelligence officer handed him an interrogation of prisoner of war (IPW) report. The officer told Frankemolle to keep the papers to himself and give it back to him after reading it — but that was the last time the two ever saw each other.
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Obama to sign $16.3 billion veterans spending bill
President Barack Obama will travel to a military facility outside Washington on Thursday to sign a $16.3 billion plan to ease health care delays at Veterans Affairs facilities as he seeks to restore confidence in an agency tarnished by the problem. The legislation, passed just before Congress left for summer recess, is intended to clear months-long wait lists for healthcare appointments at VA hospitals and clinics.
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White House announces plan to train 50,000 people, including veterans, to install solar panels
The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday. The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans.
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U.S. will train 50,000 veterans to install solar panels
The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday. The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans.
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Ex-stepson: White House intruder meant no harm
An Iraq war veteran accused of scaling a fence and making it into the White House before the Secret Service stopped him owns several guns that he could have brought with him if he had meant to harm anyone, his former stepson said Sunday.
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Female Veteran Shamed For Parking in Veterans-Only Spot
Nasty letter-writer assumed she wasn't a veteran. A female Air Force veteran parked in a veterans-only parking spot, and somebody wasn’t happy about it. Mary Claire Caine of Wilmington, N.C., returned to her car after a trip to the grocery store and found this nasty note on her windshield: “Maybe YOU can’t read the sign you parked in front of … This space is reserved for those who fought for America … not you. Thanks, Wounded Vet.”
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Army morale low despite 6-year, $287M optimism program
More than half of some 770,000 soldiers are pessimistic about their future in the military and nearly as many are unhappy in their jobs, despite a six-year, $287 million campaign to make troops more optimistic and resilient, findings obtained by USA TODAY show.
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How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield
Though only 10 percent of American forces see combat, the U.S. military now has the highest rate of post-traumatic stress disorder in its history. Sebastian Junger investigates.
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U.S. military and civilians are increasingly divided
Despite civilians' widespread admiration for troops, there's little overlap between their worlds ¶ Congress with lowest rate of military service authorized today's wars, led by 3 presidents with no active duty ¶ One-half of 1% of U.S. population enlisted — lowest rate since between World War I and II
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Healing a Wounded Sense of Morality
Many veterans are suffering from a condition similar to, but distinct from, PTSD: moral injury, in which the ethical transgressions of war can leave service members traumatized. By Maggie Puniewska.
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Mission Continues | Reporting for Duty in Your Community
Thousands of veterans return from duty as leaders, yet struggle to translate their skills and passion here at home. The Mission Continues provides opportunities to ease this transition through continued service, so veterans can succeed with that same sense of purpose and intensity in the civilian world too.
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When Patton Rolled Tanks Over Veterans in Washington D.C.
The White House wanted thousands of angry former soldiers gone. By Matthew Gault.