Veterans Health

Claims against Phila. VA up to $58 million

By Josh Goldstein Inquirer Staff Writer Injured veterans and their spouses have filed 31 claims against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for botched prostate cancer care at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, internal...

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Two Charged With Stealing Vet Donations

November 24, 2009 Connecticut Post SHELTON, CT. -- Two city men were charged Monday with stealing the donation box containing hundreds of dollars in donations collected to benefit wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and...

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Disabled Vet Sues McDonald's, Claims Assault

A disabled veteran who inspired Sen. Al Franken's first legislative victory -- a service dog program for disabled veterans -- is suing McDonald's for $10 million after allegedly being harassed, beaten, and told that he couldn't...

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Courts work with VA, bar to help vets with legal problems

Marshall Callahan had $300 in his pocket and a powerful craving for booze when he got stranded in Lee's Summit, Mo., on a cross-country drive two years ago. Any life I had that I could ruin, I ruined," says Callahan, who served...

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Disabled vet who inspired Franken sues McDonald's for $10 million

Photo courtesy of Luis Montalvan Luis Montalvan, left, a disabled veteran, and his service dog, Tuesday, met Sen. Al Franken by chance at an inaugural ball in Washington. A disabled veteran who inspired Sen. Al Franken's first...

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Fort Hood and a fair trial

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman insists on pushing ahead with a Senate inquiry into the mass murder at Fort Hood, despite White House and Pentagon anxieties that the probe could compromise the prosecution of alleged killer Maj. Nidal...

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Dahr Jamail Celebrates U.S. Military's "Will to Resist" in Iraq, Afghanistan

Dahr Jamail, the independent journalist who broke the monopoly on Iraq war coverage by "embedded reporters" and reported honestly on the war for his own blog, has tackled a subject equally taboo in the corporate media: the...

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Army helps vets with 'invisible wounds' find jobs [The Bellingham Herald, Wash.]

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 23--Kyle Salisbury grew up in Bellingham with a 10-foot American flag on his wall. A lot of people didn't make it home from Iraq," said Salisbury, 21, who lives in Bellingham with his wife,...

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Fort Lewis: Wait for veterans' disability claims wait should shrink

Fort Lewis: Program to speed up claims should be up and running here by end of March, Pentagon says | Nearly three years after a chorus of complaints from local soldiers went public, a program designed to reduce the waiting...

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A soldier's story

James Weigl had two disqualifying medical conditions and never should have been in the Army. He fell apart after coming home from Iraq and killed himself last March - one of a rising number of vets to commit suicide. His family...

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