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:
How do those served Honor The Fallen?! By not ignoring or neglecting the issues of the brothers and sisters who served with them when they return! By honoring their end of the contract and sacrificing as they demand those serving them do! By making sure the representatives they hire not attack, especially for political purposes and media headlines, the Veterans Administration workers but do their jobs hired to do, as they use their speak saying they do or want to, and fully fund the decades now long, and wars of, under funded agency! The attacks on the employee's come mostly from issues caused by that under funding and not from those employee's neglect or shoddy work and end up costing much more to correct! To make sure the funds needed are not mostly borrowed to be paid by the coming generations if at all and if the issues aren't ignored! They don't, nor didn't, serve a political ideology, they serve and protect the Country and it's, not groups within interpretation of, Constitution!
The following resources have been added to the Wounded Warrior Programs subfolder:
Operation Ward 57
Supports wounded warriors, their families and medical staff at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center by providing items that assist in recovery, maintenance and morale.
Hope for the Warriors - Above & Beyond
Provides guidance to wounded Service Members pursuing reintegration into the civilian sector.
The following resource has been added to the Family Support Group subfolder:
Hope for the Warriors - Family Support
Hosts couples, singles and family wellness retreats as well as caregiver dinners.
The following resource has been added to the Building & Locating Houses subfolder:
Operation Homefront - Homes on the Homefront
Awards mortgage-free homes to Veterans. In addition to the home, the families will build a customized transition plan with program staff.
November 1, 2013 - An estimated 2.3 million men and women have served during the nation’s last 12 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. And as they transition out of the military, the veterans will need care for immediate and long-term conditions like post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.
And many from health care professionals to retired military are concerned that the neglect of past veterans is not repeated with this new generation.
Troops in World War II came home in 1945 and went right back to work and college. There was no re-integration, no recognition of post-traumatic stress. So many WWII vets had to find their own ways to cope with the trauma of war.
“I never saw my father go to bed – in my entire life – sober. I never saw him go to work drunk,” said retired Lt. Gen. Martin Steele. “I always saw this tortured man with the self-discipline and commitment and resolve to live life one day at a time.”
Alcohol was how Steele’s stepfather, a WWII veteran, dealt with his trauma of having his fighter plane shot down, spending a year in a Prisoner of War camp and being tortured by the Germans. read more>>>
"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
R. M.: "We got a huge round of tax cuts in this country a few weeks before9/11. Once 9/11 happened and we invaded Afghanistan, we kept the tax cuts anyway. How did we think we were going to pay for that war? Did we think it was free? Then, when we started a second simultaneous war in another country, we gave ourselves a second huge round of tax cuts. After that second war started. The wars, I guess, we thought would be free, don`t worry about it, civilians. Go about your business." 23 May 2013
"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
There had been 4,804 coalition deaths 4,488 Americans
2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 South Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of January 2, 2012, according to a CNN and iCasulties count.
Graphical breakdown of casualties. At least 32,230 U.S. troops had been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon.
Oct 17, 2013 - Jerral Hancock wakes up every night in Lancaster, Calif., around 1 a.m. dreaming he is trapped in a burning tank. He opens his eyes, but he can't move, he can't get out of bed and he can't get a drink of water.
Hancock, 27, joined the Army in 2004 and went to Iraq, where he drove a tank. On Memorial Day 2007 -- one month after the birth of his second child -- Hancock drove over an IED. Just 21, he lost his arm and the use of both legs, and now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. The Department of Veterans Affairs pays him $10,000 every month for his disability, his caretakers, health care, medications and equipment for his new life.
No government agency has calculated fully the lifetime cost of health care for the large number of post-9/11 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with life-lasting wounds. But it is certain to be high, with the veterans' higher survival rates, longer tours of duty and multiple injuries, plus the anticipated cost to the VA of reducing the wait times for medical appointments and reaching veterans in rural areas.
"Medical costs peak decades later," said Linda Bilmes, a professor in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and coauthor of "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict"... read more>>>
In the budget conferences who will be the one or ones that face the realities of the past decades plus, still continuing, especially the first some six years of and the other issues placed on the countries credit card, that aren't the wars that were off the books and with no bid private contractor contracts, never to be paid but plenty of wealth made from?
POW/MIA: Afghanistan & Iraq
One U.S. soldier is currently listed as captured or Duty Status -- Whereabouts Unknown as of March 3 2012. The information below reflects the name as Prisoner of War or Duty Status -- Whereabouts Unknown by the Pentagon.
Sgt Bowe R. Bergdahl 23 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division Ketchum, Idaho Captured in Paktika province in Afghanistan, on June 30, 2009. The Pentagon declared him Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown on July 1 2009 and his status was changed to Missing-Captured on July 3 2009.
Memorial at the New JPED facility at Dover Air Force Base, Del..OEF: Afghanistan - Pakistan!!
There have been 3,393 coalition deaths -- 2,289 Americans, 40 Australians, 445 Britons, 1 Belgian, 158 Canadians, 5 Czech, 43 Denmark, 25 Netherlands, 9 Estonians, 2 Finn, 86 French, 54 Germans, 7 Hungarian, 48 Italians, 2 Jordan, 3 Latvian, 1 Lithuanian, 10 Norwegians, 38 Poles, 2 Portuguese, 21 Romanians, 1 South Korean, 34 Spaniards, 5 Swedes, 14 Turks, 11 New Zealand, 27 Georgian and 14 NATO/ISAF -- in the war on terror as of November 3, 2013, according to a CNN and iCasulties count. Below are the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The troops died in support of the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom or were part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. At least 19,436 {19,334 up to October 1, 2013} U.S. personnel have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. In addition to the military deaths, 11 U.S. intelligence operatives have died in Afghanistan.
Lance Cpl.Christopher O'Bryan Grant 20 Richwood, Louisiana, USA 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on October 20, 2013
Sgt.Lyle Dervin Turnbull 31 Norfolk, Virginia, USA Company C, 62nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 11th Signal Brigade Died from a medical emergency after participating in a 10-mile run at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, on October 18, 2013
Staff Sgt.Patrick Howard Quinn 26 Quarryville, Pennsylvania, USA Company B, 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group Died of injuries sustained when the enemy attacked his base with small-arms fire in Paktika province, Afghanistan, on October 13, 2013
Capt.Jennifer Madai Moreno 25 San Diego, California, USA Nurse assigned to Madigan Army Medical Center and attached to a joint special operations task force as a cultural support team member Moreno was one of four soldiers killed during a night combat operation in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on October 6, 2013, that prevented a high-profile suicide bombing attack in Kandahar City. During the mission, a suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the assault force. As the assault force reacted to the initial blast, they were struck by a series of explosions, killing the four soldiers.
Spc.Cody James Patterson 24 Philomath, Oregon, USA Company B, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Patterson was one of four soldiers killed during a night combat operation in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on October 6, 2013, that prevented a high-profile suicide bombing attack in Kandahar City. During the mission, a suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the assault force. As the assault force reacted to the initial blast, they were struck by a series of explosions, killing the four soldiers.
Sgt.Joseph Michael Peters 24 Springfield, Missouri, USA 286th Military Police Detachment, 5th Military Police Battalion Peters was one of four soldiers killed during a night combat operation in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on October 6, 2013, that prevented a high-profile suicide bombing attack in Kandahar City. During the mission, a suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the assault force. As the assault force reacted to the initial blast, they were struck by a series of explosions, killing the four soldiers.
Sgt.Patrick Christopher Hawkins 25 Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA Company B, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Hawkins was one of four soldiers killed during a night combat operation in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on October 6, 2013, that prevented a high-profile suicide bombing attack in Kandahar City. During the mission, a suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the assault force. As the assault force reacted to the initial blast, they were struck by a series of explosions, killing the four soldiers.
Spc.Angel Luis Lopez 27 Parma, Ohio, USA Company B, 201st Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Died of wounds suffered when an Afghan security guard opened fire at Forward Operating Base Apache near Qalat in Zabul province, Afghanistan, on October 5, 2013
Lance Cpl.Jeremiah Michael Collins Jr. 19 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force Died while supporting combat operations at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on October 5, 2013
From an Office of Personnel Management News ReleaseWASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2013 – The federal government’s executive branch hired the highest percentage of military veterans in more than 20 years during fiscal year 2012, surpassing the previous high set in fiscal 2011, Office of Personnel Management officials announced today.
The numbers were contained in the report of Employment of Veterans in the Federal Executive Branch for Fiscal Year 2012, which also was released today.
The government hired about 195,000 new employees in fiscal 2012, compared to about 230,000 new employees in fiscal 2011 — a reduction of more than 34,000 total hires. Some 56,000 of the fiscal 2012 hires, 28.9 percent, were veterans, officials said. This is a 4.9-percentage-point increase over the fiscal 2009 baseline of 24.0 percent, and about 0.6 percentage points higher than the 28.3 percent realized in fiscal 2011, they added. read more>>>
Some 290,000 veterans and military spouses have been hired since the inception of the "Joining Forces" initiative two years ago, nearly tripling the initial goal, First Lady Michelle Obama said. Story>>>
What the country wants, free wars and especially not fully funding the results of, as no one has demanded, especially their hired representatives, that it's way past time for those served to Sacrifice for those they've demanded do for them, DeJa-Vu all over again, and again, and.......!!!
Speaker Boehner 4 Oct. 2013: "I think the American people expect if we’re going to raise the amount of money we can borrow, we ought to do something about our spending problem."
Really? Where was that when you were rubber stamping spending bush wants Before 9/11 and then after with the two wars and no bid contracts on the credit card and off the books, still not paid for, and this 'tea party' was all for that!!
OCTOBER 29, 2013 - Benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, will automatically drop come Friday thanks to the loss of additional funds from the 2009 stimulus bill. That cut will hit about 900,000 of the country’s veterans, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
“Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011,” CBPP writes. The number varies state to state, with over 100,000 veterans in households that rely on the benefits in Florida and Texas each.
The coming cut will range from $36 a month for a family of four to $11 a month for a single person. Food stamps will average less than $1.40 per person per meal next year with the cut. Benefits were already sparse, at just $133 a month on average. read more>>>
How did we think we were going to pay for that war? Did we think it was free?
Then, when we started a second simultaneous war in another country, we gave ourselves a second huge round of tax cuts. After that second war started. The wars, I guess, we thought would be free, don`t worry about it, civilians. Go about your business." 23 May 2013
Visit Publichealth Exposures to learn about military exposures and VA benefits.
March 29, 2013 - The past is never dead, as William Faulkner might have written if he were analyzing the federal budget, it’s not even paid for. Did you realize that World War II still costs U.S. taxpayers $5 billion a year? Or that we haven’t closed the financial books on the Civil War yet? read more>>>
Exact Count of Civilian Casualties 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 country, the U.S., were ever invaded, who suffer the most, during and long after!
The Rand Corporation Terrorism Report the press release here, you can get the full document here or a summary of the research brief here
Missing Airmen From Vietnam War Accounted For
October 11, 2013 - The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two U.S. servicemen, missing from the Vietnam War, have been accounted for and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert E. Pietsch, 31, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Maj. Louis F. Guillermin, 25, of West Chester, Pa.,will be buried as a group Oct. 16, in a single casket representing the two servicemen at Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. Guillermin’s individual remains weres buried Oct. 5, 2013, in Broomall, Pa. read more>>>
October 11, 2013 - The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that two U.S. Marines missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Henry S. White, 23, of Kansas City, Mo., and Staff Sgt. Thomas L. Meek, 19, of Lisbon, La., will be buried as a group in a single casket representing the two servicemen, on Oct. 18, at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. read more>>>
October 11, 2013 - The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors Army Air Force 1st Lt. Robert G. Fenstermacher, 23, of Scranton, Pa., will be buried on Oct. 18, in Arlington National Cemetery. On Dec. 26, 1944, Fenstermacher was a pilot of a P-47D Thunderbolt that was on an armed-reconnaissance mission against targets in Germany, when his aircraft crashed, near Petergensfeld, Belgium. read more>>>
10/31/2013 - A modern military identification team is working to identify the remains of fifty-two military members who perished when their C-124 transport plane went down in Alaska in 1952. The plane left Seattle and crashed while on approach to Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage. read more>>>
HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military and Coalition Forces Killed in Action, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan from 2001 to January 2013 - My Honor Rolls, and more, to Share
National World War II Memorial
National Korean War Memorial
National Vietnam Veterans Memorial - "The Wall"
The Vietnam Women’s Memorial
Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries
Arlington National Cemetery
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