[Vision2020] Support for veterans

[Dave]

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

To prevent our troops from getting PTSD we have to train our kids not to 
believe the lies and then go overseas and kill people, it drives you insane!

Did you know that more Vietnam vets have committed suicide then died in 
the war?

My kids have clear instructions should they institute the draft while 
they are of age: run north, run south, run underground, or do the time, 
but don't kill people.

And remember that following an un-lawful order is an un-lawful act. 

Military recruiters are committing an un-lawful act by encouraging our 
kids to follow the un-lawful orders to ship out and fight an illegal 
war.  We should stop these people from committing such war crimes.

Dave


Tom Hansen wrote:
> Mr. Falen -
>
> Thank your very, very much for your concern, and action, in this most dier 
> issue.
>
> PTSD is, and has been since WW1, a low priority on our national budget.  
>
> What returning combat troops need, as importantly as medical care, is 
> transitional therapy, as they go from combat in Iraq/Afghanistan to 
> walking the streets of their home towns.
>
> According to President Bush's 2009 budget, the dollars fall short again 
> and thre returning combat veteran is forced to get his life in order 
> almost immediately.
>
> Disabled American Veterans (DAV) created a video to illustrate the needs 
> of these veterans, needs being ignored by BUsh's 2009 budget.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v27KmWBgKgw
>
> When these troops return home, many are suffering from PTSD and they are 
> cast out onto the streets without any therapy whatsoever.  The result is 
> often measured by their ever-increasing numbers under parkway overpasses, 
> in back alleys, and addiction to controlled substances.
>
> We can . . . We must . . . We WILL provide for these veterans.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
>
>   
>> Tom
>> I don't know if you reed The American Legion Magazine or not, but there 
>>     
> is a good article
> in the February issue on General Richard Cody. He stresses the need for 
> improving support
> for veterans. He supports the Dole-Shalala recommendations.
>   
>> Create comprehensive recovery plans, managed by a corps of recovery-plan 
>>     
> coordinators, to
> ease the transition to civilian life.
>   
>> Udate and simplify the process for determining disability ratings and 
>>     
> benefits between DoD
> and VA.
>   
>> Aggressively improve care for veterans suffering brain injury and post-
>>     
> traumatic 
> disorders, signature combat conditions faced by those who fought in Iraq 
> and afghanistan.
>   
>> significantly strengthen support for military families.
>> More rapidly transfer patient information between DoA and VA.
>> Recruit and retain first-rate professionals through 2011 at Walter Red 
>>     
> Army Medical
> Center.
>   
>> On the unsanitary conditions reveled last winer a Walter Reed outpatient 
>>     
> facility he says;
> Our challenge will be to put behind us Building 18. It was never an issue 
> about the
> quality of care for soldiers on the ward, the soldiers in the intensive 
> care units. Walter
> Reed is the best hospital in the world. If you have a traumatic anything, 
> you want to be
> at Walter Reed. The issue had to do with soliers who were being processed 
> out, with
> medical problems. The whole system got overloaded. It had nothing to do 
> with medical
> treatment. It all had to do with having the leadership and assisting them 
> through the maze
> of medical evaluation boards, physical evaluation boards, and then trying 
> to marry up what
> benefits they got, especially if they weren't going to get 30-percent 
> disability ratings
> from VA.
>   
>> Walter Reed is fully funded until the day we close the doors. Everyone 
>>     
> is looking at
> "closing" Walter Reed. Look at this as closing a post, a hospital, that 
> was going to cost
> aus almost $1 billion to upgrade. It had no room, bounded by four streets. 
> So the
> discussion was made to move Walter Reed, merge it with Bethesda, rename it 
> Walter Reed
> National Military Medical Center, and to build a world-class military 
> medical center. The
> Bethesda campus, six miles away, has three  rimes the room to build new.
>   
>> I spent 12 weeks OJT at Walter Reed in 1961-62. I was billeted at Walter 
>>     
> Reed, but worked
> at Bethesda. From there  I was transfered to Brook Army Hospital, Fort Sam 
> Houston in San
> antonio, Texas, another great hospital
>   
>> Roger
>>
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>
> - Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch (August 21,
> 2007)
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