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Four Years Later, the Fallout of Iraq
To mark the fifth year of the occupation of Iraq, Truthout will be profiling veterans who served in Iraq, have returned to the US and are trying to adjust to life at home. This is an effort to step outside... ...
121 Iraq, Afghanistan veterans kill after return to US
At least 121 US veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have either committed homicide or are suspects in homicide cases upon their return to life in their own country, the New York Times reported... ...
Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug troops to numb them
AlterNet by Penny Coleman 01/10/08 The DoD is flirting with the idea of medicating soldiers to desensitize them to combat trauma — will an army of unfeeling monsters result? http://www.altern et.org/healthwellness/7295 6/ Informant:... ...
Veterans: Home from Hell
Seattle Post Intelligencer by staff 01/05/08 Soldiers returning from war don’t need to exhibit any scars on their bodies to be injured. Many — as many as 65 percent — have witnessed and survived the... ...
McGovern still on the antiwar path
In These Times by Laura S. Washington 12/27/07 The old antiwar horse is still kicking. In 1972, South Dakota Sen. George McGovern (once a World War II bomber pilot) won the Democratic presidential nomination... ...
Six Percent of Combat Vets Have Serious Brain Injuries
The Army Times' Rick Maze reports that "six percent of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans seeking treatment at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries,... ...
Homeless Vets Play the Waiting Game
Since the start of the Iraq war, the backlog of unanswered disability claims has grown from 325,000 to more than 600,000. On average, a veteran must wait almost six months to have a claim heard. http://www.ipsnews .net/news.asp?idnews=39731 "When... ...
A Wife's Battle
Anne Hull and Dana Priest of The Washington Post report: "As thousands of war-wounded lug their discharge papers and pill bottles home, more than a quarter are returning with PTSD and brain trauma. Compensation... ...
Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress
This Friday on PBS NOW, get a bird's-eye view of life for "Iraq war veteran Michael Zacchea, a Marine lieutenant colonel who trained Iraqi troops and led them in the battle of Fallujah. Haunted by the... ...
Scientists: Brain Injuries From War Worse Than Thought
USA Today's Gregg Zoroya says, "Scientists trying to understand traumatic brain injury from bomb blasts are finding the wound more insidious than they once thought." http://www.trut hout.org/docs_2006/092407S .shtml http://freepage. twoday.net/search?q=brain+ injuries ...