Analysis: Vets Win Expansion Of Freedom Of Speech And Right To Assemble

A campaign by Veterans for Peace prompts New York to lift the “curfew” at the city’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where veterans and others gather on the anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan to honor the dead and protest wars both past and present.

Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers
With millions being cut from food stamp programs, veterans will be hardest hit. (Photo Norbert Schiller/Mint Press)

Each Oct. 7 for the past three years, on the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, members of Veterans For Peace and their allies have gathered at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Lower Manhattan for a soulful ceremony. Their purpose: to mark another year of the war in Afghanistan and call for peace, to honor all whose lives are

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1000 Veterans Line Up For Free Marijuana

The Gazette reports that veterans were given a bag of items that included cannabis oil, an edible chocolate bar and seeds to grow plants.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  -- A marijuana giveaway for veterans attracted about 1,000 people to a Colorado hotel. The "Grow 4 Vets" giveaway in Colorado Springs aimed to bring cannabis-based treatments to veterans with service-related conditions as an alternative to pain medications. The Gazette reports that veterans were given a bag of items that

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For Many Vietnam Veterans, The War Still Isn’t Over

Over the past 13 years, the number of veterans seeking claims for PTSD treatment has risen from 133,745 to more than 656,000.

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By Tara Culp-Ressler for Think Progress
Dave McBee, left, a U.S. Marine combat veteran of the Iraq War waits in the "med line" at the "Soldier On" veterans homeless shelter, in Leeds, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Forty years after the Vietnam War, 11 percent of veterans continue to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and have shown little improvement in their condition in recent decades, according to new research that updates an earlier study tracking Vietnam vets’ mental health. The findings suggest that, for some individuals who have experienced

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Report: 1,700 Vets Left Off VA Hospital Wait List

The scathing report by the VA Office of Inspector General released Wednesday increased pressure on VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.

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By Associated Press
Veterans Health Care

PHOENIX — Navy veteran Ken Senft turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care in 2011 after his private insurance grew too costly. It could have been a fatal mistake, he now says. A few years ago, the 65-year-old had a lesion on his head. He went to a VA clinic near his home outside Phoenix, but he said the doctor told him it

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Secret Lists, Deaths: Claims Roil Veterans Affairs

The VA has acknowledged that 23 patients have died because of problems related to care since 1999, according to an ongoing nationwide internal VA review.

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By Associated Press
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PHOENIX — A team of federal investigators swept into Phoenix last month amid allegations of a disturbing cover-up at the veterans hospital. Their goal: to unravel the truth behind a secret waiting list supposedly maintained to hide lengthy delays for sick veterans, making it appear as if they were seeing doctors sooner when some may have waited

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The US Is Now Deporting Its Decorated, Even Wounded, War Veterans

At most funerals for US veterans, the flag is presented ‘on behalf of a grateful nation.’ Not so for these former soldiers.

Global Post
By Global Post
Fabián Rebolledo

TIJUANA, Mexico — Decorated Vietnam veteran Hector Barrios died April 21 at his home in Tijuana, Mexico. The next day, a funeral service held in his honor was adorned with the black and yellow insignia of his unit, the famed 1st Cavalry Division. Crisply uniformed veterans folded an American flag into the shape of a tri-corner hat to present to his

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