Veterans Voices- Road to Nowhere: Returning veterans face the worst job market of their lives.
- A Heart Apart: Interactive book gives children, military parents safe way to share feelings about the difficulty of deployment
- The Hardest Year: Military Children Endure the Stress of Parent’s Deployment
- Richard Christian Jr., champion of Vietnam veterans in battle for Agent Orange and PTSD claims, to be buried at Arlington
- Post-Traumatic Stress and a Traumatic Brain Injury strain a marriage
- When doing everything right isn’t enough: A Marine’s suicide shows that even the unlikeliest veteran can fall through the cracks.
- The War Within: The battle against post-traumatic stress
- Brown Water Update: VA updates list of Vietnam Navy ships exposed to Agent Orange
- The War Within: Special Report on Post Traumatic Stress featured on WERE 1490 AM
- Brown Water Bungle: Paperwork error excluded hundreds of Vietnam Navy veterans from receiving Agent Orange benefits
Author Archives: Veterans' Voices
Toxic Legacy: A brief history of Agent Orange in Vietnam
• 1961 to 1972: U.S. military sprays some 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam and some parts of Laos under Operation Ranch Hand. • 1968-69: U.S. Military uses Agent Orange in Korean DMZ, exposing an estimated 12,000 veterans. • Early 1970s: Veterans begin … Continue reading
Broken System: Despite 30-year battle, federal court victory, Vietnam veteran’s disability claim remains unresolved
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011 / All Rights Reserved) A federal appeals court ruled in his favor two years ago, but Leroy Comer’s decades-long fight for less than $30,000 in VA disability benefits remains mired in the bureaucracy. Comer, who … Continue reading
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Tagged American Legion, Dion Messer, disability claims, Ken Olsen, Leroy Comer, PTSD, VA
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Still Adrift: Congressional inaction sinks hope that ailing Vietnam Navy veterans will regain Agent Orange benefits
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010 / All Rights Reserved) Ann Langston sent a desperate note to her senator in early June asking for help expediting her husband’s Agent Orange claim. Bruce Langston had suffered an aneurysm after long bouts with … Continue reading
Frank Buckles, last surviving U.S. World War I veteran, dies at age 110
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011 / All Rights Reserved) Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran among the 4.7 million who served– and the last survivor of that conflict’s brutal Western Front – died February 27 at … Continue reading
Pershing’s Last Patriot: Photographer pitching documentary on Frank Buckles, the last surviving American World War I veteran
By Ken Olsen A Michigan photographer is working to raise $150,000 to make a documentary about Frank W. Buckles, the last living American World War I veteran. The film will be narrated by Richard Thomas, who started in the television … Continue reading
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Tagged David DeJonge, Frank Buckles, Ken Olsen, last surviving, Pershing, veteran, veterans voices, Western Front, World War I
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Book recounts ‘Mother of Normandy’ — Little known French woman corresponded with families of Americans who perished during D-Day Invasion
The editor of The American Legion Magazine will return to his hometown of Clarkston Saturday, Jan. 29, to sign books and discuss the documentary film about a French woman who dedicated her life to the memory of Allied soldiers who … Continue reading
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Tagged American Legion, book signing, D Day, Jeff Stoffer, Ken Olsen, Lasting Valor, Mother of Normandy, Vernon Baker, World War II
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Returning veterans frustrated by high unemployment, hollow slogans, difficult access to federal jobs
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved) Ron Conley approached VA representatives about an employment fair scheduled in Pittsburgh in November and asked if they would be taking applications for VA jobs at the event. The answer was a … Continue reading
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Family considers leaving military after enduring multiple combat deployments
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved) Josh Buck read his daughter a bedtime story on the eve of his second deployment. He tucked her in and gave her the news. “Daddy has to go back to work tomorrow,” he … Continue reading
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Tireless warrior: Kristy Kaufmann fights for military families
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved) For more than three years, Kristy Kaufmann has been one of the most prominent voices warning that too many of the nation’s military families are quietly crumbling. The wife of a battalion … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, American Legion, deployment, Iraq, Ken Olsen, Kristy Kaufmann, Military Families, war
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Fort Hood shootings leave lasting effect on Army wife, mother
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010/All Rights Reserved) Angi Cunningham didn’t believe her husband’s friend when he called Nov. 5 to warn that a gunman had opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. “He said, ‘There’s been a … Continue reading
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Tagged Angi Cunningham, Army, Behind the Blue Star, Fort Hood, Ken Olsen, mother, shootings, wife
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