Five-year health care window for combat vets.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in thousands of cases of serious multiple injuries to American service men and women. They will need a lot of help coming home.
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"The Wall" is a very special place. For Vietnam era veterans it is a place of healing and remembrance. For our nation, it is a place where all of us can honor and remember those men and women who served and perished in this conflict.

The Wall is 25 years old and thte Vietnam Veterans […]

An Associated Press article on the clinical and financial suffering of a combat veteran. A poignant and insightful article by Eff Donn and Kimberly Hepling.
“He was one of America’s first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.Today, […]

“United Spinal Association is appalled, but not surprised in the slightest, that the VA’s top medical official recently lied to Congress about the lengthy delays that wounded and disabled veterans face in receiving critically needed VA medical care nationwide,” said Paul J. Tobin, President and CEO. “It is an intolerable situation and the crisis […]

Type of action: Legislative Alert
Senate Floor Amendment to be Voted on Soon!

Senators Carl Levin (Mich.) and John McCain (AZ) will offer floor amendment to the Senate version of the Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 1585) that would establish a Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Inter-agency to create a joint disability rating […]

June 26, 2007
Charles W. Lindberg, the last survivor of the six Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.
Lindberg spent decades explaining that it was his patrol, not the one captured in the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal, that raised the first flag over […]

Larry Scott at VA Watchdog.com discusses reforming VA’s funding process to a real time process that is based on existing needs.
“While veterans’ lives hang in the balance, Congress disregards the root cause of the VA’s funding difficulties. The old budget process must be replaced by a real-time, mandatory funding mechanism based on actual need.
When a […]

Paula Apodac writes on the possible future consequences of TBI related epilepsy for returning Vets who have suffered blast related head injuries.
“Severe brain trauma can trigger epilepsy in as many as 30 percent to 50 percent of the brain-injured soldiers”
The post further suggets that many of these vets are being honorably separated from the […]

Type of Action: Legislation

June 13, 2007

WASHINGTON - Responding to shabby treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a group of senators moved on Wednesday to boost disability pay to those hurt in combat and improve care for brain injury.
The 93-page measure, introduced by 30 senators from both parties, also would […]