survivorcorps.org - 11/18/2008
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US Program: Operation Survivor Since October 2001, more than 1.6 million Americans have served in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 30,000 have returned with physical wounds, but many more return with invisible injuries, including an estimated 620,000 men and women with ...
mcclatchydc.com - 11/20/2008
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WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed
the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from...
Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for ...
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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq
washingtonpost.com - 11/20/2008
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Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 17, 2008;
4:43 PM The U.S. military would require two to...
three years to remove its roughly 150,000 troops and equipment from Iraq safely, and the timing of that withdrawal should be based on security ...
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Mullen: U.S. Would Need More Than 2 Years for Iraq ...
article.nationalreview.com - 11/18/2008
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Todays Obama euphoria will not long mask that
the Iran/American conflict, far from going away, is intensifying....
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McCarthy: Agree to Worry
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Help veterans through Survivor Corps
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By Carol Gee November 11, 2008: The headline read, "Bush marks Veterans' Day on carrier," according to The Washington Post. But much remains to be done. Our troops still need our help. As a follow-up to Veterans' Day, you can help through an organization called Survivor Corps, an outgrowth of the landmine survivor movement. (Operation Survivor is Survivor Corps' program for U.S. veterans and service members.) It was founded in 1997 by Jerry White, who lost his leg to a landmine in the Middle East conflict in 1984, and Ken Rutherford, a political scientist at Missouri State who lost both ...
Supporting our Troops: Operation Survivor
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily —
This was sent to me on Veterans Day but I am just getting around to posting about it.
Here's what they are all about:
Within the United States there are over one and a half million service members that have served in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over thirty thousand have been physically wounded, but many more have experienced less visible, psychological wounds. Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder have emerged as signature injuries of these conflicts, with recent reports suggesting an increase in rates of suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, homelessness, and domestic violence among returning service members and ...
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