President Obama, all about health care all the time recently, returned his attention today again to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
For the first time, an African-American commander-in-chief addressed the nation’s largest group of combat veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Phoenix.
Posted on July 27th, 2009 by admin
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In July 2007, Attorneys at Morrison & Foerster LLP filed an unprecedented national class action lawsuit alleging “shameful failures” by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and other government institutions to care for those veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Â
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by admin
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U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin introduced, on November 7, 2007, the Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act, a bill to expand and improve VA health care services for women who have served, particularly those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF). The bill has been referred to the House Armed Services.
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by admin
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U.S. Senators Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation to improve access to services for the thousands of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are increasingly struggling with combat-related mental health disorders.
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by admin
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For more than a half-century, the convictions of 28 African-American soldiers for a riot that ended in the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war at Seattle�s Fort Lawton during World War II has held an uneasy place in history. It was the Army’s largest court-martial of the war, and it was one of the […]
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by admin
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