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Collins, Moran, McCain & Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge Improvements to Veterans Choice Program

Recent Press Releases Feb 25 2015 Washington, D.C. – In a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and John McCain (R-AZ) were joined by 39 of their colleagues in raising serious concerns about the...

I am asking that you contact your local members of Congress (Both Sides) and ask them support the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. A similar bill was in the House of Representatives last year and was stuck in with over 250 co-sponsors and was not brought to the floor for a...

Why a veterans’ mental health bill is stuck in Congress

January 10, 2015

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The Pentagon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help struggling soldiers, but numbers show these efforts have done little to stop the 22 veterans who commit suicide every day. President Obama has vowed to do more to stop what he has called “an epidemic” of...

Expose: Pulling the Curtain Back on the VA Disability Process, Corruption and Patient Abuse

December 10, 2014

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The VA Comp and Pen system is literally a patchwork of small hate crimes and patient abuse bungles which are implemented in small stages across the entire scope of the procedure. It starts from the very first filing by the veteran all the way into the final stages of appeal into...

Agent Orange Tested in Panama in the 1960’s and 70’s

http://www.panna.org/resources/gpc/gpc_199908.09.2.19.dv.html This article is from the Global Pesticide Campaigner (Volume 09, Number 2), August 1999. The complete issue is available. More about the Global Pesticide Campaigner. News Note: Agent Orange in Panama The Dallas Morning...

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): Johnston Atoll Kalama Atoll

October 14, 2013

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On 31 July 2001 the U.S. Army Chemical Activity Pacific retired its colors on Johnston Island. The unit’s deactivation marked an end to 30 years of storing and handling chemical weapons stockpiles, and participating in the destruction of those weapons since 1990. Johnston...

Agent Orange Okinawa: Where did Agent Orange stop?

Having spent much of my childhood living on air force bases around the U.S., I’m wondering whether the Pentagon allowed even more widespread use of this “defoliant.” It has been reported here in the U.S. that some veterans claim to have been exposed to Agent...

Agent Orange Okinawa: Pentagon denies burying defoliant

The Pentagon has once again denied allegations that the U.S. military buried the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange in Okinawa, the Foreign Ministry said. “The U.S. Department of Defense said that it once again reviewed past records and found no documents confirming that...

Agent Orange Okinawa: Okinawan mayor urges probe into Agent Orange allegations

“I was stunned,” Noguni said. “But when you see what had happened on Camp Lester, it is something that is very highly likely.” A local mayor is urging the Japanese government to investigate whether the U.S. buried dozens of barrels of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War at a...

Agent Orange Okinawa: Agent Orange buried on Okinawa, vet says Ex-serviceman claims U.S. used, dumped Vietnam War defoliant

In the late 1960s, the U.S. military buried dozens of barrels of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange in an area around the town of Chatan on Okinawa Island, an American veteran has told The Japan Times. The U.S. government has repeatedly maintained that it has no records pertaining...

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Collins, Moran, McCain & Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge Improvements to Veterans Choice Program

Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act

Why a veterans’ mental health bill is stuck in Congress

Expose: Pulling the Curtain Back on the VA Disability Process, Corruption and Patient Abuse

Agent Orange Tested in Panama in the 1960’s and 70’s

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): Johnston Atoll Kalama Atoll

Agent Orange Okinawa: Where did Agent Orange stop?

Agent Orange Okinawa: Pentagon denies burying defoliant

Agent Orange Okinawa: Okinawan mayor urges probe into Agent Orange allegations

Agent Orange Okinawa: Agent Orange buried on Okinawa, vet says Ex-serviceman claims U.S. used, dumped Vietnam War defoliant

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