Veterans Voices- Camp Lejeune’s Toxic Legacy: Marine Corps families who were exposed to decades of contamination search for answers
- Suicide help on the home front: Symposium April 20 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia for military spouses and children
- Frank Kowalski’s forgotten war: In the mid-’50s, Kowalski and hundreds of other U.S. soldiers were sent to a largely unknown country called Vietnam
- Upside Down Lives: Spouses and parents of severely injured veterans struggle under weight of 24/7 caregiving
- For Air Force veteran, challenge trumps comfort
- Mission Possible: Team Rubicon’s rapid response to natural disasters gives combat veterans the challenge they crave
- More than 40 years after he came home from combat, John Wayne Cloud is still walking point for fellow veterans
- Seconds to Win: For nearly 60 years, Wyoming veterans have helped develop some of America’s top rodeo talent
- Restorative Justice: Veterans treatment courts make differences in the lives of those who served
- Rare Victory: Vietnam Navy veterans struggle to prove, and keep, Agent Orange benefits
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Upside Down Lives: Spouses and parents of severely injured veterans struggle under weight of 24/7 caregiving
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2012/All Rights Reserved) By the time Debbie Schulz got help, she had been her wounded son’s full-time caregiver for more than six years. She had lost her husband, her teaching career and her retirement. She lay … Continue reading
Rare Victory: Vietnam Navy veterans struggle to prove, and keep, Agent Orange benefits
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved) Surgeons started removing strange growths from Mark Crosbie’s body a few years after he came home from Vietnam. Over the next three decades, they took sebaceous cysts from the Navy veteran’s back, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agent Orange, B-cell leukemia, Blue water Navy, Blue Water Veterans, boots on ground, Brown Water Navy, Brown water veteran, Bush Asministration, cancer, Charles Yunker, cysts, inland waters, John McCain, Ken Olsen, Lloyd Thomas, Mark Crosbie, Parkinson's, Patty Murray, Sen. Akaka, The American Legion Magazine, Tom Coburn, VA, Vietnam, Vietnam Navy veterans, Vietnam veterans
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When doing everything right isn’t enough: A Marine’s suicide shows that even the unlikeliest veteran can fall through the cracks.
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved) Of all the questions raised by Clay Hunt’s suicide, perhaps the most perplexing is this: why did a 28-year-old former Marine who was receiving VA health care, taking medications for post-traumatic stress … Continue reading
The War Within: The battle against post-traumatic stress
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved) Melissa Seligman started shaking when her husband described the aftermath of a suicide bombing he witnessed during his first deployment to Iraq. She had heard that same flat, detached tone from her father, when … Continue reading
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Tagged American Legion, Chris Piper, Her War Her Voice, Ken Jones, Ken Olsen, Melissa Seligman, mental health, Military Families, post-traumatic stress, PTSD, The American Legion Magazine, traumatic brain injury, VA, Vet Centers, Vietnam veterans, War in Afghanistan, war in Iraq
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Brown Water Update: VA updates list of Vietnam Navy ships exposed to Agent Orange
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011/ All Rights Reserved) The VA has finally posted an expanded list of U.S. Navy ships exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The so-called Brown Water ships list comes a year after U.S. Sen. … Continue reading
Brown Water Bungle: Paperwork error excluded hundreds of Vietnam Navy veterans from receiving Agent Orange benefits
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011/All Rights Reserved) Hundreds of Vietnam Navy veterans whose Agent Orange claims were denied because the VA failed to obtain key military records will receive benefits as a result of a review requested by U.S. Sen. … 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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