Wounded Vets Told to Repay Bonuses
The Associated Press reports, "Service members seriously wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan after they received a $10,000 bonus for enlisting are being asked by the Pentagon to repay portions of the incentive money, says a U.S. senator who calls the practice an example of military policy gone wrong."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112607A.shtml
One Hundred Twenty War Vets
Penny Coleman writes on AlterNet: "Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces. What they discovered is that in 2005 alone - and remember, this is just in 45 states - there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average of 17 every day."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112607B.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veteran+suicides
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Penny+Coleman
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112607A.shtml
One Hundred Twenty War Vets
Penny Coleman writes on AlterNet: "Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces. What they discovered is that in 2005 alone - and remember, this is just in 45 states - there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average of 17 every day."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112607B.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veteran+suicides
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Penny+Coleman
rudkla - 26. Nov, 22:38
