{This blog is not affiliated with the VA. Though a Veteran, four yrs. all shore in Navy last year In-Country Vietnam, I don't work for the VA}
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In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish so extremely Quickly after 9/11!!
At least some 95%, if not more as less then 1% serve them, not only still support the, just below, total lack of Sacrifice, they ran from any and all Accountability and left everything still on the table to be continually used if the political/military want was still in play in future executive/legislative wants!!
DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!
Especially for the Corporate and Wealthy Community, investors in Defense Industries, and for these, Afghanistan and Iraq, came Two Huge Tax Cuts, with more sweetheart deals to same from states and the fed!!


Thousands of people across America don’t just talk about honoring Veterans; they walk the walk. Dedicated Volunteers Serve Veterans for Decades

On this Executive Administration, it's Cabinet and those directly around same, "Best - Ever": "We haven't had this kind of visibility from the White House—ever." Joyce Raezer National Military Family Association - Dec. 30, 2011, and plenty more of similar since Joyce, others, spoke and continues!

Ask yourself: If the Veterans Administration is so corrupt and mismanaged, as the conservative ideology, under which the seeds of are planted when they control, wants everyone to buy into as they obstruct the budgets and do extremely little after they charge same, then why does the Private sector, many problems within rarely heard about, adopt so many practices and advanced technologies developed within the VA, for free?! The VA, DoD, and in partnership with Universities and Colleges, not just Health Care are constantly in R&D and that developed that works is quickly moved into the private, for profit, sector, even as the VA is long under funded, decades, and especially during and after our wars that the few are sent into!

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President Obama 26 August 2014

Fact: "This is not just a job of government. It’s not just a job of the veterans’ organizations. Every American needs to join us in taking care of those who've taken care of us. Because only 1 percent of Americans may be fighting our wars, but 100 percent of Americans benefit from that 1 percent. A hundred percent need to be supporting our troops. A hundred percent need to be supporting our veterans. A hundred percent need to be supporting our military families."

Fact:
"We’ve been able to accomplish historic increases to veterans funding. We’ve protected veterans health care from Washington politics with advanced appropriations. We’ve been able to make VA benefits available to more than 2 million veterans who didn't have them before, including more Vietnam vets who were exposed to Agent Orange. We’ve dedicated major new resources for mental health care. We’ve helped more than 1 million veterans and their families pursue their education under the Post-9/11 GI Bill."

August 26, 2014 - Secretary Robert A. McDonald's Remarks for the American Legion's 96th Annual Convention, Charlotte, NC
Fact: "Unlike, P&G, VA may not be concerned about quarterly profit and loss statements or shareholder value, but it does have a bottom line—Veterans. "
{which is why No Government agency should be turned into a private corporate entity feeding for profit off the Countries duty and responsibility, especially the VA}
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Fact: “We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

Facts: Matthew Hoh {former Marine and foreign service officer in Afghanistan}: "We spend a trillion dollars a year on national security in this country."
"And when you add up to the Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, Veterans Affairs, interest on debt, the number that strikes me the most about how much we're committed financially to these wars and to our current policies is we have spent $250 billion already just on interest payments on the debt we've incurred for the Iraq and Afghan wars."
26 September 2014

Fact: "If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Fact: "12 years also is a long time. We now have a lifetime responsibility to a generation of service members, veterans and their families." Dr. Jonathan Woodson 11 Sep. 2013: With 9/11 Came Lifetime Responsibility
{two tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, came with these two recent unpaid for wars, nor the results of, DeJa-Vu all over again from the previous decades and wars from! Ignore the many issues, by those served, no need to fund!}

Fact: Sen. Bernie Sanders told Republicans: “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, than don’t go war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about, We have a moral obligation to support them.” February, 26th, 2014

Fact: 25 June 2014 U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Veterans' Affairs issue an 'all too similar' scene

Fact: How We Could Do More For Our Vets: "We need to go into debt to pay our debt to U.S. veterans to make sure they get the care and services we owe them."

Fact: “Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!


Bob Herbert Losing Our Way : "And then the staggering costs of these wars, which are borne by the taxpayers. I mean, one of the things that was insane was that, as we're at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration cut taxes. This has never been done in American history. The idea of cutting taxes while you're going to war is just crazy. I mean, it's madness." Bill 'Moyers and Company': Restoring an America That Has Lost its Way 10 Oct. 2014

Presidential Proclamation -- Veterans Day, 2013: "As we pay tribute to our veterans, we are mindful that no ceremony or parade can fully repay that debt." read more>>>


Under two previous Executive administrations and wars from, father and son. With son and conservative congresses leading the extremely quick abandoning of the missions and those sent to accomplish after 9/11:

ProPublica and The Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2012 - Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
"DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War."

Part Two: A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?

Army Says War Records Gap Is Real, Launches Recovery Effort

3/27/15 - U.S. Nerve Gas Hit Our Own Troops in Iraq
"During and immediately after the first Gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents. Though aware of this, the Department of Defense and CIA launched a campaign of lies and concocted a cover-up that continues today."
"When Brown and others tried to obtain their medical records to prove their illnesses were service-related, they learned that the records had disappeared."


Add in the issues of finally recognizing in War Theater and more Veterans, by the Shinseki Veterans Administration and the Executive Administrations Cabinet, what the Country choose to ignore from our previous decades and wars of: The devastating effects on Test Vets and from PTS, Agent Orange, Homelessness, more recent the Desert Storm troops Gulf War Illnesses, Gulf War Exposures with the very recent affects from In-Theater Burn Pits and oh so so much more! Tens of Thousands of Veterans' that have been long ignored and maligned by previous VA's and the whole Country and through their representatives!

How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!


"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan" - President Lincoln

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq - November 2007

Iraq

There have been 4,192 coalition deaths -- 3,887 Americans, two Australians, 173 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one Korean, three Latvian, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of December 6, 2007, according to a CNN count. ( Graphical breakdown of casualties ). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 28,629 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan

Cpl. Blair W. Emery 24 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade Lee, Maine Died of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered a roadside bomb in Baquba, Iraq, on November 30, 2007

Cpl. Allen C. Roberts 21 Marine Attack Squadron 214, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Arcola, Illinois Died from a vehicle accident in Al Asad, Iraq, on November 28, 2007

Sgt. 1st Class John J. Tobiason 42 847th Adjutant General Battalion, 89th Regional Readiness Command Bloomington, Minnesota Died of injuries suffered from an incident in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 28, 2007. The incident is currently under investigation.

Pvt. Isaac T. Cortes 26 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Bronx, New York One of two soldiers killed when their vehicle encountered a roadside bomb in Amerli, Iraq, on November 27, 2007

Spc. Benjamin J. Garrison 25 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Houston, Texas One of two soldiers killed when their vehicle encountered a roadside bomb in Amerli, Iraq, on November 27, 2007

Staff Sgt. Jonathon L. Martin 33 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Bellevue, Ohio Died on November 22, 2007, in Regensburg, Germany, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered a roadside bomb in Jisr Naft, Iraq, on November 9, 2007

Spc. Melvin L. Henley Jr. 26 603rd Aviation Support Battalion, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division Jackson, Mississippi Died of injuries suffered from non-combat related incident at Camp Striker in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 21, 2007

Sgt. Alfred G. Paredez Jr. 32 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Las Vegas, Nevada Died of wounds suffered when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 20, 2007

Pfc. Marius L. Ferrero 23 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Miami, Florida One of three soldiers who died when a roadside bomb detonated during a mounted patrol in Baquaba, Iraq, on November 18, 2007

Cpl. Jason T. Lee 26 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Fruitport, Michighan One of three soldiers who died when a roadside bomb detonated during a mounted patrol in Baquaba, Iraq, on November 18, 2007. Lee died in Balad, Iraq.

Cpl. Christopher J. Nelson 22 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Rochester, Washington One of three soldiers who died when a roadside bomb detonated during a mounted patrol in Baquaba, Iraq, on November 18, 2007

Staff Sgt. Alejandro Ayala 26 90th Logistics Readiness Squadron, 90th Mission Support Group Riverside, California Died of injuries sustained in a vehicle accident in Kuwait on November 18, 2007

Sgt. Steven C. Ganczewski 22 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Niagara Falls, New York Died of wounds suffered from a combat-related incident in Balad, Iraq, on November 16, 2007

Sgt. Mason L. Lewis 26 26th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Gloucester, Virginia Died as a result of a non-combat related training accident in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 16, 2007

Spc. Derek R. Banks 24 237th Engineer Company, 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command, Virginia National Guard Newport News, Virginia Died on November 14, 2007, in San Antonio, Texas, of wounds suffered when the vehicle he was in struck a roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 25

Sgt. Kenneth R. Booker 25 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Vevay, Indiana Died of wounds sustained when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle in Mukhisa, Iraq, on November 14, 2007

2nd Lt. Peter H. Burks 26 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment Dallas, Texas Killed when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 14, 2007

Sgt. Christopher R. Kruse 23 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Emporia, Kansas One of two soldiers killed when a roadside bomb exploded during dismounted combat operations in Mukhisa, Iraq, on November 13, 2007

Pfc. Casey P. Mason 22 728th Military Police Battalion, 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command Lake, Michigan Died of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit using small-arms fire in Mosul, Iraq, on November 13, 2007

Cpl. Peter W. Schmidt 30 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Eureka, California One of two soldiers killed when a roadside bomb exploded during dismounted combat operations in Mukhisa, Iraq, on November 13, 2007

Spc. Ashley Sietsema 20 708th Medical Company, 108th Medical Battalion, 108th Sustainment Brigade, Illinois National Guard Melrose Park, Illinois Died of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident in Kuwait City, Kuwait on November 12, 2007

Sgt. Joseph M. Vanek 22 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Elmhurst, Illinois Died of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit using small-arms fire in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 12, 2007

Spc. Jermaine D. Franklin 22 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Arlington, Texas Died of wounds sustained when a homemade bomb exploded in Jisr Naft, Iraq, on November 9, 2007

Capt. Benjamin Tiffner 31 Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group West Virginia Killed when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb during a ground convoy in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 7, 2007

Sgt. Lui Tumanuvao 29 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Fagaalu, American Samoa Died of wounds suffered when he was struck by a roadside bomb during combat operations in Arab Jabour, Iraq, on November 7, 2007

Spc. Christine M. Ndururi 21 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Dracut, Massachusetts Died from a non-combat related illness in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, on November 6, 2007

Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin R. Bewley 27 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 1 Hector, Arkansas Killed when a roadside bomb detonated during operations in Salah ad Din province, Iraq, on November 5, 2007

Staff Sgt. Carletta S. Davis 34 10th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Anchorage, Alaska One of four soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated near their Humvee during combat operations in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq, on November 5, 2007

Staff Sgt. John D. Linde 30 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division New York, New York One of four soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated near their Humvee during combat operations in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq, on November 5, 2007

Pfc. Adam J. Muller 21 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Underhill, Vermont One of four soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated near their Humvee during combat operations in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq, on November 5, 2007

Sgt. Daniel J. Shaw 23 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division West Seneca, New York Died in Taji, Iraq, on November 5, 2007. His death is under investigation.

Sgt. Derek T. Stenroos 24 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division North Pole, Alaska One of four soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated near their Humvee during combat operations in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq, on November 5, 2007

Pfc. Dwane A. Covert Jr. 20 104th Transportation Company, 13th Corps Support Sustainment Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division Tonawanda, New York Died from injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident in Al-Sahra, Iraq, on November 3, 2007

Cpl. Andrzej Filipek 31 3rd Mechanized Brigade Poland Killed when a roadside bomb detonated near his patrol in northern Diwaniya, Iraq, on November 2, 2007

2nd Lt. Tracy Lynn Alger 30 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat team, 101st Airborne Division New Auburn, Wisconsin Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb detonated near her vehicle in Shubayshen, Iraq, on November 1, 2007

Master Sgt. Thomas A. Crowell 36 Detachment 301, Air Force Office of Special Investigations Neosho, Missouri Killed along with another airman and an Air Force civilian employee when a roadside bomb detonated near Balad Air Base, Iraq, on November 1, 2007

Nathan J. Schuldheiss 27 Air Force civilian employee assigned to Detachment 204, Air Force Office of Special Investigations Newport Rhode Island Killed along with two airmen when a roadside bomb detonated near Balad Air Base, Iraq, on November 1, 2007

Staff Sgt. David A. Wieger 28 Detachment 303, Air Force Office of Special Investigations North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Killed along with another airman and an Air Force civilian employee when a roadside bomb detonated near Balad Air Base, Iraq, on November 1, 2007


Civilian Casulties

Just Foreign Policy Issues
Over a million {*1,127,552} Iraqis are estimated to have been killed as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation. Learn More and Take Action»
*Estimate, click for explaination.

To

John Hopkins School of Public Health { October 11, 2006 report } puts the count at 650,000, with a range from 400,000 to 900,000.

Exact Count of Civilian Casulties may never be known, as is the case in every conflict, especially an Invasion by another Country. For it is the Innocent Civilians and those Defending their Countries {of which All would be counted if this land were ever invaded} who suffer the most, during and long after!

All the Deaths, Maimings and Destruction are the Blood on All Our Hands, No One can escape the Guilt!

You can view other Honor Rolls of the Fallen I have posted on my site, or from the CNN link at top and the other sources that you might use or know about. I have other links on the right hand side, of this site.

Honoring The Fallen of Iraq and Afghanistan




"Never going home"

Some of the troops from the 101st division are on their third tour of Iraq.

Previous tours have lasted more than a year and this one will be more than 15 months.

The words "never going home" have been etched onto the ceiling of this vehicle.



As Of December 6 2007, There Are 82 Pages w/5 'Silent Honor Rolls' Each, Number Of KIA's Varies With Each 'Silent Honor Roll';
Many now have numbers in the teens and twenties
In Honor - In Memory


If they were sent to fight, they are too few. If they were sent to die, they are too many!

Is 'Funding' Really For Troops?

What Happened To Funding and Oversite For Military/Veteran Care In Previous Congresses?

Those who take some sort of relief in the "We are fighting them over there so we won't be fighting them here!", Better Rethink their Future, or rather their Childrens Future!!

The Failed Policies will Haunt Us and the World for Decades!!

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