{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!!


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Sunday, October 10, 2010

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

Iraq

There have been 4,142 coalition deaths -- 3,841 Americans, two Australians, 171 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one Korean, three Latvian, 21 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of October 30, 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 28,327 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan

Spc. David E. Lambert 39 237th Engineer Company, 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command, Virginia Army National Guard Cedar Bluff, Virginia Died of wounds sustained from a roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 26, 2007
Pfc. Adam J. Chitjian 39 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died of injuries sustained when he came in contact with enemy forces using small-arms during combat operations in Balad, Iraq, on October 25, 2007
Staff Sgt. Robin L. Towns Sr. 52 275th Military Police Company, 372nd Military Police Battalion, Washington, D.C. National Guard Upper Marlboro, Maryland Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee during combat operations in Bayji, Iraq, on October 24, 2007
Seaman Anamarie Sannicolas Camacho 20 U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain Panama City, Florida One of two sailors who died during a non-combat related incident in Bahrain on October 22, 2007
Seaman Genesia Mattril Gresham 19 U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain Lithonia, Georgia One of two sailors who died during a non-combat related incident in Bahrain on October 22, 2007
Cpl. Erik T. Garoutte 22 1st Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Santee, California Died in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 19, 2007
Staff Sgt. Jarred S. Fontenot 35 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Port Barre, Louisiana Died of injuries suffered from a roadside bomb and small-arms fire during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 18, 2007
Spc. Wayne M. Geiger 23 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment Lone Pine, California Died of wounds sustained when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 18, 2007
Spc. Vincent A. Madero 22 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Port Hueneme, California Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb detonated near his Humvee in Balad, Iraq, on October, 17, 2007
Spc. Micheal D. Brown 20 1st Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division Williamsburg, Kansas Died on October 16, 2007, in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, of a non-combat related illness after being transported from Tikrit, Iraq, on October 15
Lance Cpl. Sarah Holmes 26 80 Postal & Courier Squadron, 29 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps Wantage Oxfordshire, England Died on October 14, 2007, at a British hospital of injuries sustained in an automobile accident at Al Udeid airfield in Qatar on October 3
Pfc. Kenneth J. Iwasinski 22 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division West Springfield, Massachusetts Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 14, 2007
Spc. Jason B. Koutroubas 21 Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Dunnellon, Florida Died of injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident in Tal Afar, Iraq, on October 14, 2007
1st Lt. Thomas M. Martin 27 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Ward, Arkansas Died of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small-arms fire during combat operations in Busayifi, Iraq, on October 14, 2007
Sgt.1st Class Justin S. Monschke 28 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group Krum, Texas Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb exploded near his unit during combat operations in Arab Jabour, Iraq, on October 14, 2007
Pvt. Nathan Z. Thacker 18 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Greenbrier, Arkansas Killed when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Kirkuk, Iraq, on October 12, 2007
Staff Sgt. Lillian Clamens 35 1st Postal Platoon, 834th Adjutant General Company Lawton, Oklahoma One of two soldiers killed when insurgents attacked their unit with rockets in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 11, 2007
Staff Sgt. Donald L. Munn II 25 Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division Saint Clairs Shores, Michigan Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb exploded near his unit in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 11, 2007
Spc. Samuel F. Pearson 28 376th Finance Company, 88th Regional Readiness Command Westerville, Ohio One of two soldiers killed when insurgents attacked their unit with rockets in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 11, 2007
Spc. Frank L. Cady III 20 4th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Sacramento, California Died of injuries sustained during a vehicle roll-over in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 10, 2007
Sgt. Jason M. Lantieri 25 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Killingworth, Connecticut Died on October 10, 2007, of injuries suffered during a vehicle accident in Iskandariya, Iraq, on October 9.
Staff Sgt. Eric T. Duckworth 26 759th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade Plano, Texas Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 10, 2007
Lance Cpl. Jeremy W. Burris 22 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Tacoma, Washington Died while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq, on October 8, 2007
Cpl. Benjamin C. Dillon 22 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Rootstown, Ohio Died of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small-arms fire in northern Iraq on October 7, 2007
Cpl. Gilberto A. Meza 21 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment Oxnard, California Died of wounds sustained when a roadside bomb exploded near his unit in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 6, 2007
Spc. Rachael L. Hugo 24 303rd Military Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade Madison, Wisconsin Died of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked her unit using a homemade bomb and small-arms fire in Bayji, Iraq, on October 5, 2007
Spc. Jason N. Marchand 26 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment Greenwood, West Virginia One of two soldiers killed when a homemade bomb exploded near their unit during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 5, 2007
Sgt. Joseph B. Milledge 23 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment Pointblank, Texas One of two soldiers killed when a homemade bomb exploded near their unit during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 5, 2007
Spc. Vincent G. Kamka 23 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Everett, Washington Died in Bayji, Iraq, on October 4, 2007
Spc. Avealalo Milo 23 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division Hayward, California Died of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small-arms fire in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 4, 2007
Sgt. Ricardo X. Rodriguez 23 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Arecibo, Puerto Rico Died of wounds suffered when a roadside bomb exploded near his unit during combat operations near Bayji, Iraq, on October 4, 2007
Gunnery Sgt. Herman J. Murkerson Jr. 35 Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 2, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Adger, Alabama Died while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq, on October 1, 2007
Seaman Apprentice Shayna Ann Schnell 19 Naval Security Force Bahrain, Jebel Ali Detachment Tell City, Indiana Died on October 1, 2007, as a result of injuries suffered during a vehicle accident in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, on September 25, 2007



Civilian Casulties

Just Foreign Policy Issues
Over a million {*1,099,372} 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.

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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