MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads

Due to the nature of the wars in Iraq and Aghanistan more military personnel are likely to see or experience combat trauma, sufffer from mental illness and become homeless. Read more from CNN
Officials say many more Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer post-traumatic stress disorder than veterans of previous wars. The government says PTSD is […]

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For many military families, the release this month in a report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence determining that intelligence activities leading up to the occupation of Iraq were deliberately distorted, is not a revelation. The report’s conclusions, that the administration knew claims of weapons of mass destruction, ties to al Qaeda […]

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The Washington Post reports that an official urged staff to cut back on PTSD diagnoses.
A psychologist who helps lead the post-traumatic stress disorder program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seeking government disability payments for the condition.
“Given that we are […]

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A letter is circulating around Coquille and the author claims to be the sister of a local business owner and police chief wife. The author claims to have been inspired by something called ‘Oprah’s Big Give’, whatever that is.
Addressed to Dear Sir or Madame… the letter details the many economic downturns, weather […]

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I have written about this before but the VA has acknowledged that on average 126 veterans, 18 per day are committing suicide.
Brig. Gen. Michael J. Kussman, the undersecretary for health at the VA, sent the email, dated Dec. 15, 2007. Kussman had inquired about the accuracy of a news report published that month claiming the […]

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Writer Robert Fisk discusses the semantics employed by George Bush. In particular, apparently to ‘re-educate’ the public about the truth in Iraq, Bush’s use of words beginning with ‘re’.
Note, too, the constant use of words that begin with “re -”. Renew. Revive. And – incredibly – Bush also told us that “we actually re-liberated […]

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A fellow peace activist wrote this and gave me permission to post it here. It is moving and thoughtful and attends to the too little attention given by the mainstream media upon these gut wrenching testimonies of our wounded warriors, our true winter patriots.
Editor:
As noted in The World (March 17, 2008), Sunshine Week is […]

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IAVA lobbying Congress to improve funding for our fighting men and women.

Follow up here to send your support to Congress and to write your local papers and inform the public.

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News Corp, owner of Fox News did not want to allow access to a contingent of veterans delivering over 17,000 signatures regarding O’Reilly’s denial that any vets are homeless.

How does someone with so little integrity and so little regard for our veterans stay on the air?

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It is crushing to read stories like this and to see what an ungrateful nation we really are. Worse, how we disregard our veterans is not recent occurence but has been a blemish on our history since the revolutionary war. Today, perhaps because of the evolution of wars and the advent of improvised […]

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