Iraq Veterans

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A Tweet To Remind, In Case You Forgot What Memorial Day Was Really About

Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Veterans PTSD, Bob Woodruff, Memorial Day, Remind.org, Twitter, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Stand Up for Heroes, Lee Woodruff, Memorial Day Weekend, Iraq Veterans, Tweet to Remind, James Gandolfini, Alive Day, Alive Day Memories, Media News

Bob and Lee Woodruff have been just tireless in promoting their cause, and this latest iteration reflects a super-savvy harnessing of new media.

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Memorial Day 2009 - A Look at Women in the Military

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Hopefully, in between the barbecues and the parades, our citizens will reflect on both the physical and emotional challenges that our service women have -- and continue -- to face.

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Waging the Battle at Home

Bob Woodruff | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Veterans, Support Our Troops, Memorial Day, Memorial Day Weekend, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Ptsd, Soldier Injury, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News

More than a holiday, Memorial Day is an enduring symbol of the responsibility we share to ensure that "support our troops" -- including those with hidden injuries -- isn't just a slogan.

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Why 'Stressed Out' U.S. Soldier Killing Comrades in Iraq Was Inevitable

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Fatalities, Iraq, Troops, Soldier Suicides, Iraq Veterans, Iraq Soldier Suicide, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Veterans, Politics News

The slaughter of five comrades by a "stressed out" U.S. soldier today in Baghdad is a true tragedy -- but should not come as a shock.

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Surviving Within: Helen Benedict Uncovers the Harsh Realities of Women in the Military

Christian Avard | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Sexual Violence, Department of Veterans Affairs, Iraq Veterans, Violence Against Women, Rape, Veterans Affairs, U.S. Military, Veterans Health Administratino, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Iraq, War in Iraq, Veterans, Politics News

Their seclusion, combined with the military's history of gender discrimination and the uniquely challenging conditions in Iraq, has resulted in a mounting epidemic of sexual abuse, physical degeneration, and emotional distress.

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100 Days On Veterans: A Reason To Hope

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Veterans Affairs, Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, First 100 Days, Veterans Care, votevets.org, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, President Obama, Obama's First 100 Days, Votevets, Barack Obama, Veterans, Politics News

In all three areas of veteran care, while there's a ton to still do, there's been dramatic improvement in Obama's first 100 days.

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Military Training On Extremists Preying on Servicemembers

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Politics News, Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Vfw, Rush Limbaugh, Veterans of Foreign Wars, John Boehner, Janet Napolitano, President Obama, Votevets, American Legion, Barack Obama, Right-Wing Extremism, Veterans, Extremism, Politics News

I hate to break it to Republicans, and to the American Legion, but the military has been training servicemembers on the dangers of right wing extremist groups for years.

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The Struggles of Unemployed Iraq Vets

Stefan Deeran | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Veterans, Military, Veterans, Department of Veterans Affairs, The Exception Magazine, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Maine, Iraq, Living News

I was proud as hell to serve in the footsteps of patriots and heroes. But now I am an unemployed veteran of war.

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Bloomberg 3? NYC Veterans 0

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Veterans Affairs, Troops, Mental Health, Memorial Day, Mayor Bloomberg, Middle East Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Veterans Day, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, President Obama, Michael Bloomberg Term Limits, Mike Bloomberg, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Iraq Veteran Suicide, Students, New York, New York City, Tbi, Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Marines, Iraq PTSD, Veterans Benefits, Homeless Veterans, Middle East, Ptsd, US Navy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Politics News

Ask any veteran and he or she will tell you that over the past several years New York City's Mayor's Office of Veterans' Affairs has done little or nothing to assist the hundreds of thousands of veterans in the city.

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(Re-) Creating Anbar's Awakening

Gabriel Ledeen | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Anbar, Afghanistan, Anbar Province, Iraq War, Iraq Veterans, Global War on Terror, Iraq, Anbar Awakening, Iraq Anniversary, War in Iraq, Anbar Surge, Counterinsurgency, War on Terror, Veterans, World News

Describing the Anbar Awakening movement as a miraculous Sunni uprising blinds us to the lessons we ought to have learned.

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Being a Woman Veteran

Kayla Williams | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Iraq Veterans, US Soldiers, Army, Women's Issues, San Francisco, Veterans, Living News

Last Wednesday, I was honored and proud to be invited to the SHOUT! Art by Women Veterans show put on in San Francisco by Swords to Plowshares.

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Jonathon Monken, 29-Year-Old Iraq Veteran, Named Head Of Illinois State Police

AP | Rupa Shenoy | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois State Police Director, Iraq Veterans, Pat Quinn, Illinois State Police, Jonathon Monken Illinois State Police, Jonathon Monken, Chicago News

CHICAGO - Just two days after the Illinois State Police director resigned abruptly, Gov. Pat Quinn appointed a 29-year-old West Point graduate and for...

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Iraq War's "Iron Anniversary" -- What Good Has Come Out of It?

Jonathan Powers | Posted 04.19.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq Veterans, Iraq Anniversary, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Warwire, World News

I was sick to my stomach this last weekend listening to Dick Cheney tell John King that after 6 years in Iraq "we have accomplished nearly everything we set out to do."

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Iraq: Six Long Years Of Deception

John Bruhns | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War Anniversary, Iraq Veterans Suicide, Iraq Veterans, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Iraqi Civilian Deaths, War in Iraq, George W. Bush and Iraq, Truth Commission, Politics News

Six years ago today I was in Kuwait awaiting orders to cross the border into Iraq with the first wave of invading forces. So many questions remain unanswered.

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Another Year In Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead

Jon Soltz | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War Anniversary, Iraq War, Department of Veterans Affairs, Iraq Veterans, Traumatic Brain Injury, President Obama, Votevets, Ptsd, Barack Obama, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Tbi, Politics News

I was in Iraq at the start of the occupation, back in May, 2003. It's impossible to not look back and shake my head in disbelief. But I also look ahead and breathe a bit of a sigh of relief.

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Stewart On Obama's Plan For Veterans' Insurance: 'That Can't Be Right'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uso, Video, Iraq Veterans, Daily Show, Veterans Insurance, Jon Stewart, Colbert Report, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Barack Obama, Veterans, Politics News

Last night's segment on the "smaller outrage" that is the announced plan to ask our military veterans to use their private insurance to cover combat r...

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Show Us the Money: Iraq Veterans React to the VA Budget

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Veteran, White House, Obama, Budget, Paul Rieckhoff, Obama Veterans, VA Funding, Iraq Veterans, Veterans Affairs, Politics News

Veterans' funding is about $1.2 billion higher than the amount recommended by leading veterans' organizations, but Obama's budget is still not a slam dunk for veterans.

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For Veterans, "Happiness is a warm puppy"

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 04.09.2009 | Style

Recently, I learned that the comic-strip writer Charles Schulz was a decorated veteran of WWII and experienced severe forms of the shock and melancholy that often results from combat.

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Rebalancing our National Security Strategy

Jonathan Powers | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Department of Defense, Afghanistan, National Security, President Obama, Iraq Veterans, Warwire, Development Projects, State Department, World News

The economic crisis that we face today provides us an opportunity to prioritize this needed change by ensuring that we have a strategic balance in our spending.

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Obama Bringing Troops Home: Are We Ready to Welcome Them?

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Whether it is 16 months or 19 months or 23 months, whether the residual force is 10,000 or 50,000 troops, the president's new plan will create a surge of new veterans coming home in 2009 and 2010. We need to be ready.

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As War Veterans Increase, Judge Seeks Separate Court For Ex-Military Offenders

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 03.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cook County Court, Cook County Vets Court, Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Cook County Veterans Court, John Kirby, Chicago News

As the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on the number of war vets increases, and some of them are ending up in the Cook County criminal justice ...

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"You Saved My Life" ... A Reason to Keep Reporting

Aaron Glantz | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, James Eggemeyer, Ptsd, Iraq Veteran Suicide, Veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News

After six years of war in Iraq, it is easy to get exhausted and depressed, then something happens that suddenly gives all your work meaning, that gives you the strength to continue.

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From Falluja to Washington, DC: Iraq Veteran Unveils New Roadmap for Congress

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Department of Veterans Affairs, Congress Iraq, Iraq Veterans, Todd Bowers, Iraq, Ptsd, Paul Rieckhoff, Veterans Affairs, Veterans, Stimulus Package, Politics News

As the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the stimulus package today, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have a lot at stake.

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Mayor MIA on Veterans' Affairs

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manhattan, Veterans Affairs, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Ofice of Veterans' Affairs, Eric Shinseki, New York City, Veterans, Roger K. Newman, Iraq War, Long Island, General Eric Shinseki, Iraq Veterans, Shinseki, Eric Shinseki Veterans Affairs Secretary, Shreddergate, Department of Veteran Affairs, Eastern New York, Politics News

When hundreds of thousands of New York's veterans do not receive the benefits and entitlements they deserve, is there then no cost to New York State taxpayers?

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After the White House: A Retirement Plan for President Bush

Dr. Stephen Forman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, George Bush, 4000 Dead, US Military, Former President Bill Clinton, Iraq Deaths, Economy, George W. Bush, Veterans, Childhood Obesity, Iraq Veterans, Military, Richard Nixon, Former Presidents, 4000 Soldiers Deaths, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Visiting Each Other, Bill Clinton, Ex-Presidents, Veterans Affairs, Vets, Iraq Death Toll, Retirement, Economic Development, U.S. Presidents, Presidents, HIV/AIDS, Iraq War, Tsunami, Iraq Soldier Deaths, Hospitals, Jimmy Carter, Iraq, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Politics News

As President Bush leaves the White House and returns to Texas, we can only hope for him what we want for ourselves; to learn from our mistakes and to do good in the world with the time.

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