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Disabled veterans fleeced by VA-appointed fund managers
Dozens of convicted thieves, chronic gamblers, mentally ill and the bankrupt were among those approved to handle veterans’ assets by the VA, according to nationwide interviews and an unprecedented analysis of never-before released inspector general and court records.
Tags: veterans; VA; veterans courts
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Duty, Honor, Betrayal: How the U.S. turned its back on poisoned WWII vets
Zeman did months and months of research to tell the stories of U.S. army veterans who were exposed to poison gases as part of government experiments before and during World War II. In the early nineties, these stories came to light and the VA promised to help the affected veterans file claims and fight for compensation, but the agency never came through. This report found that the VA never fulfilled its pledge, and that many sick and dying veterans, affected by chemical experiments decades before, were left to handle their illnesses completely on their own.
Tags: military; mustard gas; Nuremburg; Anthony Principi; Pentagon; lewisite; gas chambers; Edgewood Arsenal; Department of Defense; Veterans Affairs
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Danger Dismissed: How the Pentagon downplays the risks of depleted uranium weapons
Evans discovers that the veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War "have a disability rate three times as high as that of Vietnam and World War II veterans," and that this trend may be the result of using depleted uranium weapons. His eight-chapter series takes an in-depth look at the science of depleted uranium weapons, centralizing his focus around Matt Rohman, a Gulf War veteran who lives every day in pain. Evans explores different concepts of radiobiology, geology, radiation physics, and health science, and takes a look at what depleted uranium weapons could mean for today's soldier.
Tags: depleted uranium weapons; Pentagon; Gulf War Syndrome; Gulf War illness; war-related illness; ill veterans; nerve disorders; Lou Gehrig's disease; nuclear weapons; chronic fatigue; bystander effect; radioactive dust; military munitions; depleted uranium exposure; veterans with cancer; pyridostigmine bromide; chemical weapons; biological weapons; Fort Eustis; C-4 plastic explosive
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Ill Wind
This in-depth article traces the after effects of the 1991 Operation Desert Storm. The article takes a look at how the casualties from of biological warfare have been ignored. The story reveals that the effects on veterans who have been exposed to biological warfare can have effect even 20 years later.
Tags: FOI; Gulf war; Operation desert storm; Saddam Hussein; biological warfare
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Welcome Back Warrior
The tragic suicide of mentally ill Marine Corps veteran Brian Callan was the catalyst for an analysis of how the Department of Veterans Affairs fails to assist soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a variation called peacekeeper's traumatic stress disorder. The VA has cut special services for those with PTSD, like Callan who served in Lebanon, Desert Storm and Somalia, nearly to extinction,
Tags: Marine Corps; peacekeeper's traumatic stress disorder; post-traumatic stress disorder; PTSD; suicide; Department of Veteran Affairs; VA; Brian Callan
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Serving Those Who Served
Westport sheds light on the difficult lives of homeless veterans in Fairfield and Westport. The story reveals that "there are people ... who have lost jobs and apartments because of serious alcohol and drug problems and mental illnesses brought on by the trauma of fighting in a war..." The magazine reports on experts' estimates that "that about a third of all homeless people .. are veterans of military service." The story profiles John Richard Eula, a Vietnam veteran, who became homeless because of alcohol and drug abuse habits, acquired during his military service.
Tags: shelters; unemployment; Department of Labor; Connecticut; housing; vocational training
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Lethal Legacy
"The story began with one soldier who died a mysterious death. It ended up changing Canadian government policy and setting off a wave of international medial coverage ... The main character in the first story was Terry Riordon, a Gulf War veteran from the small town of Yarmouth , Nova Scotia who dies with a mysterious and awful collections of illnesses. His widow gave us exclusive access to test results that she had done on Riordon's tissues and bones. They showed that he had depleted uranium in his bones almost a decade after the Gulf War."
Tags: 3 CASSETTE TAPES- PART 1 AND 2; TRANSCRIPT; radio; uranium; Gulf War Syndrome; biochemical warfare; depleted uranium (D-U) testing; Canada; veterans; FOI; NATO; soldiers; health; Toronto
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What We Have Here is a Failure to Rehabilitate
This article "examines the turmoil within Colorado's Youthful Offender System, an innovative 'last chance' program for violent adolescents facing the adult prison system. Operated by the Department of Corrections, YOS showed promise in its early years but is now plagued with staff turnover and dissension and a rising failure rate, stemming from a clash of cultures between rehabilitation-minded veteran staffers and new employees brought in by the DOC as the program expanded...."
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The Gotti Tapes
In this two-part series, two veteran crime reporters conclude decades of investigations into the Italian-American Mafia with the scoop they had been waiting for: an interview with the godfather himself, John Gotti, suffering from cancer in a federal prison.
Tags: mob underworld Marion Ill. background celebrity criminal
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Apocalypse Still
Mother Jones investigates the continued effects of Agent Orange on the Vietnamese 25 years after the war ended. "In the years since the war's end... the reality of America's chemical warfare in Vietnam's forest and rice paddies has slowly begun to unfold. Though thousands of American veterans of the war now receive government compensation for illnesses linked to Agent Orange, the United States has yet to accept responsibility for the devastating effects of its campaign on Vietnam... Washington seems coldly indifferent to the havoc it unleashed on Vietnam, intent on ignoring it or making it go away." Mother Jones uncovers some evidence that Agent Orange has led to birth defects in Vietnamese children.
Tags: Vietnam; Agent Orange; dioxin; birth defects; United States