Try it get by
Our wounded are still being discharged from the services with months and years of medical treatment needed that they can only get throught the VA. TheVA is buried by the numbers of people needing help.
Even the niece has been told she will get a medical discharge, they can't do anything more for her. I don't know how they can expect anyone to sign up knowing that if they get hurt they will be abandoned if they need too much care or repair.
One of the reasons it's so hard for me to keep up with this blog is that it depresses me so badly to read these stories and not be able to help these men and women in need. Prayers seem a thin help but I am not in a position to do much else for them at this time. And if I am depressed, think how they feel!
With Halloween coming I found one story with a little spooky tale in it.
He had been hit in the shoulder and wrist, he had shrapnel in his head, and had suffered burns. He later told his mother, Paula, that he believed his grandmother, who had died a few months before, had lifted him from the wrecked vehicle.(more)
Injured troops' care questioned
Other ghosts haunt our vets.
She's only 18 and delivers treats, toiletries to wounded soldiers
Monika Hammon was watching CNN one day when she was struck by a report about wounded soldiers coming home from overseas.
Contact her at www.geocities.com/woundedsoldierproject2006 or e-mail her at woundedsoldierproject@msn.com .
Now this one set me off again and it was right near here in Michigan.
CALEDONIA, Mich - A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure.
I located the company and tried to call. Line busy. Next, answered by machine saying the voice mail is full. Next a recording stating they are closed till tomorrow. Then the website was down. On my last try they were taking info by voice mail to return calls for their customers and I left a long message of protest. You can email them through this site, but I'll bet she's back at work tomorrow.
He should have been back home,
but the Pentagon's "stop-loss" order prevented him, like thousands of others, from leaving the Army until his overseas deployment was over....Tan had been driving a Bradley Fighting Vehicle on what is known as 28th Street near the Golden Mosque. His team had already patrolled the road six times that day. The seventh proved unlucky.
And each day there are more wounded.
Three US Soldiers Killed, four wounded in Iraq
State Casualties map
Another Iraq war legacy:
Some US soldiers wounded in Iraq are coming home infected with
October 27, 2005 - Troops Pay Cost for Pentagon Mismanagement by Diane M. Grassi
posted by Valerie - Still Riding Forward @ 4:15 PM
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