Monday, November 16, 2009
Ben Affleck: "Surely those who have sacrificed so much, deserve no less".
Jason Neilson was paralyzed by a sniper while stationed in Iraq. He discusses how Paralyzed Veterans of America helped him following his injury.
Vietnam vet on fraud charge
Vietnam vet on fraud charge
EMILY MACDONALD
November 16th, 2009
A SENIOR member of the Townsville Vietnam Veterans Association has been charged with defrauding the charity of almost $18,000.
The man allegedly spent seven months collecting the money, which was raised through raffles and market stalls, and putting it in his own pocket.
Volunteers at the organisation including president John Trewern are devastated by the revelations, which will force the charity to scale back the welfare they hand out over the festive season.
Townsville CIB officer-in-charge Detective Senior-Sergeant Chris Hicks confirmed the 65-year-old-man was being investigated for fraud.
''He was in a position within the organisation where he handled cash and he utilised that cash for his own purposes,'' Det Sen-Sgt Hicks said.
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Vietnam vet on fraud charge
EMILY MACDONALD
November 16th, 2009
A SENIOR member of the Townsville Vietnam Veterans Association has been charged with defrauding the charity of almost $18,000.
The man allegedly spent seven months collecting the money, which was raised through raffles and market stalls, and putting it in his own pocket.
Volunteers at the organisation including president John Trewern are devastated by the revelations, which will force the charity to scale back the welfare they hand out over the festive season.
Townsville CIB officer-in-charge Detective Senior-Sergeant Chris Hicks confirmed the 65-year-old-man was being investigated for fraud.
''He was in a position within the organisation where he handled cash and he utilised that cash for his own purposes,'' Det Sen-Sgt Hicks said.
read more here
Vietnam vet on fraud charge
Powwow honors all veterans
Powwow honors all veterans
BY BECCY TANNER
The Wichita Eagle
For the past 21 years, Charlie Harjo has participated in every powwow hosted by the Wichita Kansas Intertribal Warrior Society.
Harjo, who is of Choctaw and Creek heritage, was a soldier in Vietnam.
On Sunday he was one of the veterans participating in the gourd dancing at the Veterans Day Powwow.
When Harjo was young, his father used to tell him that he hoped his son would never see what his eyes had seen.
"I never knew what he was talking about," said Harjo, 61, "until I saw it in Vietnam."
In Vietnam, Harjo said, he watched fellow soldiers die, including one named Sgt. Flowers.
"He was wounded and lying there and looked over at me and said, 'Don't forget me, Chief.' Back then, they called every Indian 'Chief.' "
When Harjo came back to the United States in 1969, he said, he tried to forget Sgt. Flowers.
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http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/1057281.html
BY BECCY TANNER
The Wichita Eagle
For the past 21 years, Charlie Harjo has participated in every powwow hosted by the Wichita Kansas Intertribal Warrior Society.
Harjo, who is of Choctaw and Creek heritage, was a soldier in Vietnam.
On Sunday he was one of the veterans participating in the gourd dancing at the Veterans Day Powwow.
When Harjo was young, his father used to tell him that he hoped his son would never see what his eyes had seen.
"I never knew what he was talking about," said Harjo, 61, "until I saw it in Vietnam."
In Vietnam, Harjo said, he watched fellow soldiers die, including one named Sgt. Flowers.
"He was wounded and lying there and looked over at me and said, 'Don't forget me, Chief.' Back then, they called every Indian 'Chief.' "
When Harjo came back to the United States in 1969, he said, he tried to forget Sgt. Flowers.
read more here
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/1057281.html
The Vietnam vet who thinks MTV can make the world a better place
The Vietnam vet who thinks MTV can make the world a better place
Bill Roedy runs MTV in 162 countries and hopes to unite people through music, with help from Fidel and Bono. Ian Burrell reports
Bill Roedy is the international statesman who never got voted out of office. To step into his London office is to enter a museum filled with artefacts featuring the global leaders, world-changing events, natural disasters and cultural icons that have characterised the past two decades. Every photograph, painting and ornament relates to the media career of this tough-looking Vietnam veteran, the chairman and chief executive of MTV Networks International.
"That's Shanghai, Sarajevo, there's Bono, that's our trip to Cuba where we had a couple of meetings with Fidel," he says pointing to a large photo of the Cuban leader with Ernest Hemingway, actually autographed by Castro. "I've met Shimon Peres a few times over the years. There are the Rolling Stones. Warren Buffett, who gave me poker tips. There's the Dalai Lama..."
Roedy, who oversees MTV's output in 162 countries and 33 languages, resists the suggestion that he has the role of a globe-trotting ambassador – "I don't know if I would take it that seriously" – but then says: "I have met over 30 heads of state and seven or eight Nobel prize winners."
Another photograph shows him on a recent trip to Afghanistan, holding aloft his BlackBerry alongside an Afghan solider posing with an AK47. Trained at the elite West Point military academy, Roedy is a former airborne Ranger who later specialised in deactivating nuclear missile bases. The soldier's life is behind him now, but he still has battles on his hands.
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The Vietnam vet who thinks MTV can make the world a better place Independent
Web site helps veterans reconnect after combat
Web site helps veterans reconnect after combat
Posted: Nov 16, 2009 6:15 PM EST
Posted by Sarah Harlan - email
(NBC) - A new web site is helping veterans re-connect after combat.
It's also helping servicemen and women recover from post traumatic stress disorder.
Retired Marine Matthew Brown will never forget the moment he was shot by a sniper while fighting in Fallujah.
"They weren't really sure where I was shot because there was blood everywhere," Brown said. "Sorry, little difficult to talk about sometimes."
There were operations, there were months of rehab.
He learned to walk again but there was something else that wasn't right.
Brown had post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
"What we know is that a third of vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from some type of combat-stress injury," Tom Tarantino with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America said.
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http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=11516476
Posted: Nov 16, 2009 6:15 PM EST
Posted by Sarah Harlan - email
(NBC) - A new web site is helping veterans re-connect after combat.
It's also helping servicemen and women recover from post traumatic stress disorder.
Retired Marine Matthew Brown will never forget the moment he was shot by a sniper while fighting in Fallujah.
"They weren't really sure where I was shot because there was blood everywhere," Brown said. "Sorry, little difficult to talk about sometimes."
There were operations, there were months of rehab.
He learned to walk again but there was something else that wasn't right.
Brown had post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
"What we know is that a third of vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from some type of combat-stress injury," Tom Tarantino with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America said.
read more here
http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=11516476
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