[Vision2020] [Spam 6.70] Re: Support for veterans

Fri Feb 15 14:44:05 PST 2008

Dave
It is true that the suicide rate is the highest it has ever been. I don't have the statistics in front of me, but I am confident that it is much less that those killed in combat.
Roger
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From: Dave tiedye at turbonet.com
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:28:29 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam 6.70] Re: [Vision2020] Support for veterans

> "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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