Car Chase Suicide: Phoenix Suspect Shoots Self In Head On Live Fox
News Feed After 100 MPH Pursuit
The Huffington Post
By Andy Campbell
Posted: 09/28/2012
The vehicle that the suspect allegedly stole before shooting himself in the head. A long car chase with a Dodge Caliber in Phoenix, Ariz., ended with the suspect shooting himself in the head on live TV, appearing to commit suicide.
The driver, recorded live news helicopters, led law enforcement on a dangerous chase, traveling at speeds of nearly 100 mph.
Around 3:30 p.m. ET, at the end of the hour-long pursuit, he drove off the road, got out of his car and ran down a dirt path for a short period. He then appeared to shoot himself in the head and collapsed.
Fox News quickly cut away from the shot and went to commercial after the gruesome incident. Host Shepard Smith immediately apologized for airing what looked like a suicide.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Phoenix Suspect Shoots Self In Head On Live Fox
Video is available at the link below. Not posting it. Too graphic even though Huffington Post blocked the actual suicide.
Amy suicides for August at 25
Stars and Stripes
By LEO SHANE III
Published: September 27, 2012
WASHINGTON — Army officials saw a drop in suicide cases in August, but remain on pace for another grim record this year.
Army officials said 25 soldiers – 16 of them active-duty troops – are believed to have killed themselves last month. That’s down from July, when the figure hit an all-time high of 38 suicides among the active and reserve forces.
For the year, the Army has already seen 131 potential active-duty suicide cases and another 80 guardsmen and reservists believed to have taken their own lives. That puts the service on pace to surpass 2010 – the deadliest year for suicides in the service – when 305 servicemembers killed themselves.
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Veterans wait as claims pile up
Veterans wait as claims pile upGood time to remember how we got here. Two wars producing more wounded veterans, claims made easier for PTSD and Agent Orange plus an ever graying veterans population and the number of employees went down. John Boehner's funny numbers
By The New York Times, Herald-Tribune
Friday, September 28, 2012
For Dennis Selsky, a Vietnam-era veteran with multiple sclerosis, it was lost documents. It seemed that every time he sent records to the Department of Veterans Affairs, they disappeared into the ether.
For Mickel Withers, an Iraq war veteran with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, it was a bureaucratic foul-up. The department said he received National Guard pay in 2009, though he had left the Guard the previous year, and cut his disability compensation by $3,000. He filed for bankruptcy to protect himself from creditors.
For Doris Hink, the widow of a World War II veteran, it was the waiting. The department took nearly two years to process her claim for a survivor’s pension, forcing her daughter to take $12,000 from savings to pay nursing home bills.
These are the faces of what has become known as “the backlog”: the crushing inventory of claims for disability, pension and educational benefits that has overwhelmed the Department of Veterans Affairs. For hundreds of thousands of veterans, the result has been long waits for decisions, mishandled documents, confusing communications and infuriating mistakes in their claims.
Numbers tell the story. Last year, veterans filed more than 1.3 million claims, double the number in 2001. Despite having added nearly 4,000 new workers since 2008, the agency did not keep pace, completing less than 80 percent of its inventory.
This year, the agency has already completed more than one million claims for the third consecutive year. Yet it is still taking about eight months to process the average claim, two months longer than a decade ago. As of Monday, 890,000 pension and compensation claims were pending.
Skyrocketing costs have accompanied that flood of claims. By next year, the department’s major benefit programs — compensation for the disabled, pensions for the low-income and educational assistance — are projected to cost about $76 billion, triple the amount in 2001. By 2022, those costs are projected to rise nearly 70 percent to about $130 billion.
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WWII veteran makes dream come true for Vietnam veteran
WWII veteran makes dream come true for Vietnam veteran
Marietta Daily Journal
by Jon Gillooly
September 28, 2012
ACWORTH — The wish of a World War II veteran made a Vietnam veteran’s dream come true on Thursday in the form of a new Habitat for Humanity house in Acworth.
Before he died in February, the late Army Lt. Col. Ashley Ivey donated a half-acre wooded lot on Womack Avenue off Cobb Parkway to Habitat for Humanity with the stipulation that any home built there go to a disabled veteran.
During the house dedication ceremony, Ivey’s niece, Beth Hoeve of Roswell, recalled how much her late uncle loved his country.
“While serving as a navigator … in WWII, he was shot down in German-occupied Holland, and the Dutch Resistance risked their lives to smuggle him to safety,” she said. “He never forgot their kindness. Col. Ashley and his (late) wife, Ruth, knew the importance of their faith in God and put it into action by serving others.”
Ivey went on to serve in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He spent his retirement as a substitute teacher at North Cobb High School and as an active member of Acworth United Methodist Church, the Southern Order of Storytellers and other civic and volunteer activities.
Ivey died just months before he could see his dream of providing homeownership to another veteran realized. He had hoped that his donation would inspire others, especially members of the military, to also donate to veterans.
The property he left went to Vietnam veteran Lt. Victor Alvarado of Acworth, a grandfather of seven. A native of Puerto Rico, Alvarado injured his back while offloading 250-pound C-130 tires at Homestead Base, south of Miami, while serving in the Air Force. Later back surgery worsened the problem, he said.
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Marietta Daily Journal
by Jon Gillooly
September 28, 2012
ACWORTH — The wish of a World War II veteran made a Vietnam veteran’s dream come true on Thursday in the form of a new Habitat for Humanity house in Acworth.
Before he died in February, the late Army Lt. Col. Ashley Ivey donated a half-acre wooded lot on Womack Avenue off Cobb Parkway to Habitat for Humanity with the stipulation that any home built there go to a disabled veteran.
During the house dedication ceremony, Ivey’s niece, Beth Hoeve of Roswell, recalled how much her late uncle loved his country.
“While serving as a navigator … in WWII, he was shot down in German-occupied Holland, and the Dutch Resistance risked their lives to smuggle him to safety,” she said. “He never forgot their kindness. Col. Ashley and his (late) wife, Ruth, knew the importance of their faith in God and put it into action by serving others.”
Ivey went on to serve in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He spent his retirement as a substitute teacher at North Cobb High School and as an active member of Acworth United Methodist Church, the Southern Order of Storytellers and other civic and volunteer activities.
Ivey died just months before he could see his dream of providing homeownership to another veteran realized. He had hoped that his donation would inspire others, especially members of the military, to also donate to veterans.
The property he left went to Vietnam veteran Lt. Victor Alvarado of Acworth, a grandfather of seven. A native of Puerto Rico, Alvarado injured his back while offloading 250-pound C-130 tires at Homestead Base, south of Miami, while serving in the Air Force. Later back surgery worsened the problem, he said.
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After brother’s suicide, a helicopter pilot moves into chaplaincy
After brother’s suicide, a helicopter pilot moves into chaplaincy
Army Times
By Meghann Myers
Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Sep 25, 2012
Almost as soon as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jeremy Cover enlisted in the Army 10 years ago, suicide was front and center.
“One of the guys in my class had mentioned he wanted to hurt himself,” Cover said. “I was assigned as his battle buddy, so I went with him all day to his [behavioral health] visits.”
As a young soldier, he was a little irritated that he’d been called to take time out of his few free hours a day to babysit a fellow private. They didn’t say a lot to each other at the time, but Cover blames that on his inexperience.
“One of the misconceptions about suicide is that you don’t want to talk to the guy about it, because if you talk about it, you’ll give him ideas,” he said.
Now he finds that talking about it is the best treatment, because if they can talk about it, they’re less likely to actually do it.
Cover supervised half a dozen more guys in the following years. In his last combat mission before returning home from Iraq in March 2011, he flew a Blackhawk helicopter transporting the remains of a soldier who had committed suicide downrange.
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Army Times
By Meghann Myers
Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Sep 25, 2012
Almost as soon as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jeremy Cover enlisted in the Army 10 years ago, suicide was front and center.
“One of the guys in my class had mentioned he wanted to hurt himself,” Cover said. “I was assigned as his battle buddy, so I went with him all day to his [behavioral health] visits.”
As a young soldier, he was a little irritated that he’d been called to take time out of his few free hours a day to babysit a fellow private. They didn’t say a lot to each other at the time, but Cover blames that on his inexperience.
“One of the misconceptions about suicide is that you don’t want to talk to the guy about it, because if you talk about it, you’ll give him ideas,” he said.
Now he finds that talking about it is the best treatment, because if they can talk about it, they’re less likely to actually do it.
Cover supervised half a dozen more guys in the following years. In his last combat mission before returning home from Iraq in March 2011, he flew a Blackhawk helicopter transporting the remains of a soldier who had committed suicide downrange.
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Military absentee voting picks up
Military absentee voting picks up
Army Times
By Karen Jowers
Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Sep 27, 2012
With little more than a month to go before the election, activity has picked up among military community voters overseas.
In the first three weeks of September, when free express military mail service became available for overseas service members and their families, 5,556 absentee ballots were sent to the U.S. with the military-only mailing service — a 65 percent increase over the same period in 2010, when the free express mail service was first authorized for the election season, according to the U.S. Postal Service.
Eric Eversole, executive director of the Military Voter Protection Project, said he is not surprised. “You would expect to see a sizeable increase in the number of absentee ballots being returned in a presidential year election as compared to a mid-term election,” he said.
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Army Times
By Karen Jowers
Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Sep 27, 2012
With little more than a month to go before the election, activity has picked up among military community voters overseas.
In the first three weeks of September, when free express military mail service became available for overseas service members and their families, 5,556 absentee ballots were sent to the U.S. with the military-only mailing service — a 65 percent increase over the same period in 2010, when the free express mail service was first authorized for the election season, according to the U.S. Postal Service.
Eric Eversole, executive director of the Military Voter Protection Project, said he is not surprised. “You would expect to see a sizeable increase in the number of absentee ballots being returned in a presidential year election as compared to a mid-term election,” he said.
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Navy Vet's suicide note, plea to help others live with PTSD
Remembering John Bates, bringing awareness to PTSD
Sep 23, 2012
Written by
Lauren Scott
NORTH LITTLE ROCK Ark. (KTHV) -- A memorial service Sunday morning honored Petty Officer First Class John Bates' Bates. He was a member of the Navy before being medically discharged. He suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder before taking his life.
Family, friends and the Patriot Guard came out to the USS Razorback to honor the serviceman. Before Bates lost his battle to PTSD, he left his father a note, requesting he raise awareness to help others.
Bates' father tells us he is honoring that request, starting with today's service. He says, "It's amazing that everyone showed up and showed the support that they are."
John Studdard is proud of his son's accomplishments. He tells us his son served in the Navy for nine years, before being medically discharged after damaging his lungs in Desert Storm. Once Bates came back to the U.S., he worked for Government Services for 14 years before taking his life.
Bates left a note behind, admitting he had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and his last wish was to bring awareness so others don't battle with PTSD.
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Sep 23, 2012
Written by
Lauren Scott
NORTH LITTLE ROCK Ark. (KTHV) -- A memorial service Sunday morning honored Petty Officer First Class John Bates' Bates. He was a member of the Navy before being medically discharged. He suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder before taking his life.
Family, friends and the Patriot Guard came out to the USS Razorback to honor the serviceman. Before Bates lost his battle to PTSD, he left his father a note, requesting he raise awareness to help others.
Bates' father tells us he is honoring that request, starting with today's service. He says, "It's amazing that everyone showed up and showed the support that they are."
John Studdard is proud of his son's accomplishments. He tells us his son served in the Navy for nine years, before being medically discharged after damaging his lungs in Desert Storm. Once Bates came back to the U.S., he worked for Government Services for 14 years before taking his life.
Bates left a note behind, admitting he had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and his last wish was to bring awareness so others don't battle with PTSD.
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One Humanitarian Crisis You Haven't Donated To
She's right. Americans are so disconnected from everything about combat, they are clueless until it happens in their own families.
I used to wonder why there are so many new charities popping up all over the country when there were even more established decades ago. This pretty much sums that answer up. Financial support is lacking for all of us.
I've been doing this 30 years. For most of that time, I held down a full time job, doing this part time. That changed 5 years ago. It's been full time, out of my own pocket and frankly it sucks to be me but I wouldn't stop doing this for all the money in the world.
I get up, read stories like I posted over the last couple of days, like Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor Hero, feeling like a burden to his family so he pulled over on the side of the road one day, pulled out his gun, put it to his head and pulled the trigger. For whatever reason, it didn't fire. And then the MP from Jacksonville committing suicide after suicide prevention training.
I read emails from veterans, family members and worried friends. Then I read emails from especially Moms after they can't understand how their sons and daughters managed to survive combat but couldn't survive being back home.
I have to beg for donations and even when I do that, few come in. A local VFW made me cry when they donated $1,000 to help me. I was over $3,000 in debt. Now it's only $2,000. It takes between $1-$2,000 a month to cover expenses, which is not a lot of money considering I travel all over Florida for meetings and film events the news is no longer interested in covering for veterans.
I don't mind giving up the income I lost as much as it does bother me while I am constantly asked to show up and be there when I'm needed, few show up to help me.
This is why established charities that have the answers are no longer here to answer the questions and millions are being wasted asking the wrong people.
If you can help them then step up. If not, then at least financially support the people who show up everyday.
You know where the donate button is on here so try kick in $5 or $10. It will at least put some gas in my car.
One Humanitarian Crisis You Haven't Donated To
Huffpost blog
Lisa Cypers Kamen, MA
Executive Director Harvesting Happiness
Support for the Afghanistan War has hit rock bottom. In a May Associated Press poll, an overwhelming 66 percent of Americans disapproved of the war, with only 27 percent giving our Afghanistan conflict a stamp of approval. But whether we like the war or not, the troops fighting on behalf of America need our support. Our veterans are facing an unprecedented crisis in the form of PTSD, and this humanitarian issue has nothing to do with politics.
As many as one-fifth of the 2.6 million veterans deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq since 2011 battle PTSD, an anxiety disorder characterized by painful flashbacks and nightmares triggered without notice. As the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs struggle to provide veterans with access to treatment services, many warriors and their families are left to suffer through the daily pain of PTSD alone.
Wars are often controversial, but we haven't seen this little public support for a conflict since the most protested years of the Vietnam War. And it seems that we've let our negative view of the war taint our view of the veterans fighting it just when they need our help.
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I used to wonder why there are so many new charities popping up all over the country when there were even more established decades ago. This pretty much sums that answer up. Financial support is lacking for all of us.
I've been doing this 30 years. For most of that time, I held down a full time job, doing this part time. That changed 5 years ago. It's been full time, out of my own pocket and frankly it sucks to be me but I wouldn't stop doing this for all the money in the world.
I get up, read stories like I posted over the last couple of days, like Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor Hero, feeling like a burden to his family so he pulled over on the side of the road one day, pulled out his gun, put it to his head and pulled the trigger. For whatever reason, it didn't fire. And then the MP from Jacksonville committing suicide after suicide prevention training.
I read emails from veterans, family members and worried friends. Then I read emails from especially Moms after they can't understand how their sons and daughters managed to survive combat but couldn't survive being back home.
I have to beg for donations and even when I do that, few come in. A local VFW made me cry when they donated $1,000 to help me. I was over $3,000 in debt. Now it's only $2,000. It takes between $1-$2,000 a month to cover expenses, which is not a lot of money considering I travel all over Florida for meetings and film events the news is no longer interested in covering for veterans.
I don't mind giving up the income I lost as much as it does bother me while I am constantly asked to show up and be there when I'm needed, few show up to help me.
This is why established charities that have the answers are no longer here to answer the questions and millions are being wasted asking the wrong people.
If you can help them then step up. If not, then at least financially support the people who show up everyday.
You know where the donate button is on here so try kick in $5 or $10. It will at least put some gas in my car.
UK, 3 non-combat deaths in Afghanistan
Royal Marines Commando collapses and dies in Afghanistan after sudden illness
Mirror News
By Chris Hughes
25 Sep 2012
The special forces hero was rushed to a military hospital at Britain’s Camp Bastion base in Helmand Province but died
Royal Marines Commando collapses and dies in Afghanistan after sudden illness
The special forces hero was rushed to a military hospital at Britain’s Camp Bastion base in Helmand Province but died
A Royal Marine Commando has died on the Afghanistan front line following a sudden illness while fighting the Taliban.
The special forces hero was rushed to a military hospital at Britain’s Camp Bastion base in Helmand Province but died yesterday.
His devastated family and friends in the UK have been informed of the tragedy by senior officers.
It is thought he served with the elite Special Boat Service, which has played a major role in targeting the Taliban throughout the Afghan campaign, but the illness he suffered is not thought to be related to fighting the enemy.
A Ministry of Defence statement said today: “It is with great sadness that we must announce that a Royal Marine Commando died on 24 September in Afghanistan.
"His death is believed to have been from natural causes. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this very difficult time.”
Two British soldiers also died in Afghanistan last Friday and Royal Military Police believed they both killed themselves.
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Mirror News
By Chris Hughes
25 Sep 2012
The special forces hero was rushed to a military hospital at Britain’s Camp Bastion base in Helmand Province but died
Royal Marines Commando collapses and dies in Afghanistan after sudden illness
The special forces hero was rushed to a military hospital at Britain’s Camp Bastion base in Helmand Province but died
A Royal Marine Commando has died on the Afghanistan front line following a sudden illness while fighting the Taliban.
The special forces hero was rushed to a military hospital at Britain’s Camp Bastion base in Helmand Province but died yesterday.
His devastated family and friends in the UK have been informed of the tragedy by senior officers.
It is thought he served with the elite Special Boat Service, which has played a major role in targeting the Taliban throughout the Afghan campaign, but the illness he suffered is not thought to be related to fighting the enemy.
A Ministry of Defence statement said today: “It is with great sadness that we must announce that a Royal Marine Commando died on 24 September in Afghanistan.
"His death is believed to have been from natural causes. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this very difficult time.”
Two British soldiers also died in Afghanistan last Friday and Royal Military Police believed they both killed themselves.
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Wisconsin Air Force Veteran awarded $1.8 million discrimination suit
Former Wisconsin veterans affairs official awarded $1.8 million in discrimination ruling
TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press
September 27, 2012
MADISON, Wis. — A jury has awarded $1.8 million to a former Wisconsin veterans affairs administrator, agreeing that his boss reassigned him to a job 110 miles from home to punish him for backing a former colleague's claims that he was fired because of his race, age and sex.
Gary Wistrom, who was an assistant administrator at the state Department of Veterans Affairs veterans home in Union Grove, was awarded the compensatory and punitive damages Wednesday after a two-day trial in federal court in Madison.
Peter Fox, an attorney for the 30-year U.S. Air Force veteran, issued a statement saying he was pleased with the verdict.
"I am proud to be his lawyer," Fox said of Wistrom. "(He) received the due process that this country provides and that he dedicated his life to protect."
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TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press
September 27, 2012
MADISON, Wis. — A jury has awarded $1.8 million to a former Wisconsin veterans affairs administrator, agreeing that his boss reassigned him to a job 110 miles from home to punish him for backing a former colleague's claims that he was fired because of his race, age and sex.
Gary Wistrom, who was an assistant administrator at the state Department of Veterans Affairs veterans home in Union Grove, was awarded the compensatory and punitive damages Wednesday after a two-day trial in federal court in Madison.
Peter Fox, an attorney for the 30-year U.S. Air Force veteran, issued a statement saying he was pleased with the verdict.
"I am proud to be his lawyer," Fox said of Wistrom. "(He) received the due process that this country provides and that he dedicated his life to protect."
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