Senate Committee questions halt in Veterans’ Home Admission
Posted in News on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at 11:00 am by Web content assistant editor David Rauch
Harrisburg– In the wake of reports that Pennsylvania has stopped admitting veterans to the six homes across the state, the Senate Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness Committee will hold a public hearing to get to the bottom of the problem.
“This is a very unsettling situation for veterans and their families – ailing veterans are not being admitted, workers are not getting paid, and rumors abound of layoffs and closings. I truly hope that the Rendell Administration has not stooped to making veterans who need care pawns in this budget dispute, but we need to find the facts,” according to Lisa Baker, the committee chair.
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Senate Committee questions halt in Veterans Home Admission
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220,000 treated for post-traumatic stress in Scotland
Scotland's Lawyers getting carried away with PTSD claims or is there something else going on?
220,000 treated for post-traumatic stress
26 July 2009
By David Leask
MORE people are being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than are serving in Britain's armed forces, it emerged last night.
The UK Government said 220,000 individuals seek help for the condition.
The revelation, uncovered by the BBC, comes as lawyers increasingly cite PTSD when trying to sue on behalf of people who have endured even the most minor accident, such as a ADVERTISEMENTlow-speed car crash or "shunt".
Scotland's leading expert in the condition last night said the diagnosis of PTSD had become far too loose, allowing lawyers to capitalise.
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220,000 treated for post-traumatic stress
Sgt. Ryan Schlack, laid to rest after being shot at Fort Hood
Wis. soldier killed on Texas base is laid to rest
Associated Press
July 25, 2009, 1:21PM
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Family and friends have laid to rest the Wisconsin soldier who was shot at a party on a Texas military base.
Army Sgt. Ryan Schlack was buried in Oshkosh on Friday with military honors.
The military says the 30-year-old died July 18 after being shot while trying to break up a fight at Fort Hood. A fellow soldier has been charged with first-degree murder.
Schlack was a specialist but was posthumously promoted to sergeant.
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Associated Press
July 25, 2009, 1:21PM
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Family and friends have laid to rest the Wisconsin soldier who was shot at a party on a Texas military base.
Army Sgt. Ryan Schlack was buried in Oshkosh on Friday with military honors.
The military says the 30-year-old died July 18 after being shot while trying to break up a fight at Fort Hood. A fellow soldier has been charged with first-degree murder.
Schlack was a specialist but was posthumously promoted to sergeant.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6547123.html
Remembering Korean War veterans in Kileen Texas
Remembering Korean War veterans; celebrating their sacrifice
Amid the clink-clang and clamoring drums during dinner entertainment, the people who gathered at the Killeen Civic and Conference Center Friday night made every effort to establish one message: Let there never be another forgotten war.
Amid the clink-clang and clamoring drums during dinner entertainment, the people who gathered at the Killeen Civic and Conference Center Friday night made every effort to establish one message: Let there never be another forgotten war.
Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program takes hold in Missouri
Mo. program helps guardsmen in return to U.S.
By Kavita Kumar - St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP
Posted : Saturday Jul 25, 2009 15:53:15 EDT
ST. LOUIS — When Sgt. Nicholas Moore returned from his first deployment with the Missouri National Guard, he was too exhausted to absorb all the details about the military benefits and support services for which he was eligible.
It was 2004 and he had just returned from Iraq.
“We were so fatigued from just being back,” said Moore, 28. Then after the quick briefing at Fort Leonard Wood, “It was like, ‘OK, off you go!’ ”
But it has been a much different experience since he returned from his second deployment, this time as part of the multinational peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Since March, he has spent two weekends in the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program that the Pentagon started last year for guardsmen.
Along with about 350 other Missouri National Guardsmen and their families, Moore spent a weekend at the Renaissance Grand Hotel downtown. They were given spending money to eat around town and were handed certificates, pins and other mementos at a “freedom salute” ceremony.
But the heart of the program is three days of briefings on everything from military benefits such as health insurance and educational assistance to workshops on suicide prevention and reintegrating into civilian life.
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Mo. program helps guardsmen in return to U.S.
By Kavita Kumar - St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP
Posted : Saturday Jul 25, 2009 15:53:15 EDT
ST. LOUIS — When Sgt. Nicholas Moore returned from his first deployment with the Missouri National Guard, he was too exhausted to absorb all the details about the military benefits and support services for which he was eligible.
It was 2004 and he had just returned from Iraq.
“We were so fatigued from just being back,” said Moore, 28. Then after the quick briefing at Fort Leonard Wood, “It was like, ‘OK, off you go!’ ”
But it has been a much different experience since he returned from his second deployment, this time as part of the multinational peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Since March, he has spent two weekends in the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program that the Pentagon started last year for guardsmen.
Along with about 350 other Missouri National Guardsmen and their families, Moore spent a weekend at the Renaissance Grand Hotel downtown. They were given spending money to eat around town and were handed certificates, pins and other mementos at a “freedom salute” ceremony.
But the heart of the program is three days of briefings on everything from military benefits such as health insurance and educational assistance to workshops on suicide prevention and reintegrating into civilian life.
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Mo. program helps guardsmen in return to U.S.
In Illinois Town, Still a Time to Mourn for fallen soldiers
In Illinois Town, Still a Time to Mourn
Eight-Year Afghan War Brings Little Talk but a Powerful Undercurrent of Pain
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 26, 2009
MARSEILLES, Ill. -- They are adding a panel to the black granite war memorial, the one etched with the names of U.S. warriors killed in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. The other 10 panels are filled, but the troops keep falling.
Three weeks ago, it was four soldiers, including two from the Marseilles National Guard armory, blown up by a roadside bomb in Kunduz. Last Monday, it was four more, also by a bomb, making July the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the war in Afghanistan began nearly eight years ago.
As U.S. casualties rise in Afghanistan, shifting attention from six years of war in Iraq, a familiar sense of loss is rippling through towns like this one. The Illinois National Guard alone has lost 17 soldiers in the past nine months, and President Obama is sending more troops to battle a resurgent Taliban and to stabilize the fractured country.
The deaths are an unwelcome reminder of a war that often draws little notice beyond the home towns of the deployed and the fallen. And even here, where yellow ribbons line Main Street and soldiers in uniform drop in to Bobaluk's or Di's Deli for lunch, conversation about Afghanistan is limited.
Asked how much talk he hears, Mayor Jim Trager answered flatly, "Not much."
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In Illinois Town, Still a Time to Mourn
That's the biggest problem righ there. The Mayor even said he doesn't hear much. Most Americans don't either. We do such a great job sending them off when wars begin. Unless it's a quick win or we happen to be obliterating the enemy with "shock and awe" people lose interest. That is, unless they happen to have a family member or friends there. Even then, it's hard to get them to pay attention. Spouses back home tend to not want to hear what just went on today in Afghanistan if their significant other is there. Same story with Iraq. They say it adds to the worry when they already have enough to worry about. It's easy to understand that kind of attitude but it is certainly not helpful when the significant other comes home and the spouse is clueless what they went through.
For the rest of the American population their ambivalence while consumed with their own problems is partly behind how we ended up in the mess we're in when it comes to taking care of the men and women we sent. The people running the media know when people just don't care and that time came a couple of years ago. I wonder from the reverse side. How can they care if they don't know what is going on?
Two toddlers shoot siblings in US
Two toddlers shoot siblings in US
Two young children have been shot by their siblings in the space of 24 hours in the United States.
In Las Vegas, a two-year-old girl was in a critical condition after being shot by her four-year-old brother at their home, police said.
In South Carolina, a four-year-old boy was shot in the stomach by his three-year-old brother after the little boy found a gun.
The injured boy was expected to make a full recovery, police said.
The incident in Las Vegas happened on Thursday night after the girl's brother found a loaded 9mm handgun inside their home.
It went off while he was holding it, hitting his sister in her torso.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8168465.stm
Linked from RawStory
Two young children have been shot by their siblings in the space of 24 hours in the United States.
In Las Vegas, a two-year-old girl was in a critical condition after being shot by her four-year-old brother at their home, police said.
In South Carolina, a four-year-old boy was shot in the stomach by his three-year-old brother after the little boy found a gun.
The injured boy was expected to make a full recovery, police said.
The incident in Las Vegas happened on Thursday night after the girl's brother found a loaded 9mm handgun inside their home.
It went off while he was holding it, hitting his sister in her torso.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8168465.stm
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Fisherman catches man after leap from Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Bradenton man's unlikely catch under Sunshine Skyway bridge is a lifesaver
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, July 25, 2009
BRADENTON
Steve Burkholder was fishing under the Sunshine Skyway bridge with two of his nephews when he heard someone scream from above: "No!"
He looked up and saw a man hurtling nearly 200 feet into the water, causing a 15-foot splash.
The fisherman lifted anchor and steered his boat to the man, who was face-up in "a dead man's float." His eyes were closed, his skin purple and swollen. His shoes were floating nearby. Blood pooled in the water around him.
Burkholder and one of his nephews pulled the man aboard his 181/2-foot boat while the other nephew called the Coast Guard.
Burkholder began CPR and listened for a heartbeat.
Silence.
He felt for a pulse.
Nothing.
He and his nephews began to pray.
About 30 seconds later, the man began to sputter and wheeze.
"You know, God uses pretty much anybody," Burkholder said. "I don't know why he chose me."
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1021477.ece
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, July 25, 2009
BRADENTON
Steve Burkholder was fishing under the Sunshine Skyway bridge with two of his nephews when he heard someone scream from above: "No!"
He looked up and saw a man hurtling nearly 200 feet into the water, causing a 15-foot splash.
The fisherman lifted anchor and steered his boat to the man, who was face-up in "a dead man's float." His eyes were closed, his skin purple and swollen. His shoes were floating nearby. Blood pooled in the water around him.
Burkholder and one of his nephews pulled the man aboard his 181/2-foot boat while the other nephew called the Coast Guard.
Burkholder began CPR and listened for a heartbeat.
Silence.
He felt for a pulse.
Nothing.
He and his nephews began to pray.
About 30 seconds later, the man began to sputter and wheeze.
"You know, God uses pretty much anybody," Burkholder said. "I don't know why he chose me."
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1021477.ece
Man held for mental evaluation in Friday's lockdown, gun threat at USF
Man held for mental evaluation in Friday's lockdown, gun threat at USF
Times Staff Writer
Posted: Jul 25, 2009 12:21 PM
A man who touched off a lockdown and manhunt Friday at the University of South Florida by telling a crisis center operator that he was carrying a gun on campus was detained early Saturday for mental evaluation, USF police said.
The man agreed to an interview at USF police headquarters and was held under the Baker Act. The law allows people to be taken for mental health examination if they show the potential for causing serious injury to themselves or others.
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1021725.ece
Times Staff Writer
Posted: Jul 25, 2009 12:21 PM
A man who touched off a lockdown and manhunt Friday at the University of South Florida by telling a crisis center operator that he was carrying a gun on campus was detained early Saturday for mental evaluation, USF police said.
The man agreed to an interview at USF police headquarters and was held under the Baker Act. The law allows people to be taken for mental health examination if they show the potential for causing serious injury to themselves or others.
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1021725.ece
One less MIA too look for in Vietnam
Remains of SC soldier recovered from Vietnam
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jul 25, 2009 11:36:02 EDT
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The sister of a South Carolina soldier who went missing in Vietnam four decades ago says his remains have been recovered.
The Herald Journal of Spartanburg reported Saturday that remains found last March at a crash site in south central Vietnam have been identified as Thomas Rice Jr.
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jul 25, 2009 11:36:02 EDT
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The sister of a South Carolina soldier who went missing in Vietnam four decades ago says his remains have been recovered.
The Herald Journal of Spartanburg reported Saturday that remains found last March at a crash site in south central Vietnam have been identified as Thomas Rice Jr.
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