President Obama pays respect to war dead on Memorial Day, Fox distorts
I am more than a little upset with people that have decided to unload on President Obama for not being at Arlington National Cemetary to lay a wreath, which in his place he sent Vice President Joe...
View ArticleWhy has MSNBC decided to give Ari Fleischer a "platform"?
I woke up and saw Ari spewing his nonsense on Morning Joe and I thought it was just Joe Scarborough helping an old Republican friend a seat at his "table" to help beat up the Obama Administration. It's...
View ArticleNew Court filing shows Veteran Affairs were doing human experiments
I have been trying to wrap my head around the new court papers that were just filed on June 7, 2010 in San Francisco Federal Court, the case VVA versus the CIA, DOD and the Army it added a few more...
View ArticleWhy General David Petraeus should be promoted
I know this is a very strange diary for Daily Kos, but as an old infantryman who had the opportunity to work for 2 men who worse thru the ranks to both wear 4 stars, when I worked for Barry McCaffrey...
View ArticleFor us oldies a flashback to the good war the "Cold War"
It was one of the longest wars in American history, it started the day the war in Europe ended in 1945, and the "winners" divided Europe, Berlin, the Kotean Peninsula into a North and South Korea, one...
View ArticleAnother 4th of July and how many military and veterans spend the day
On a political blog the majority of you could probably care less of how the troops and their families spend holidays like the 4th of July, it is not a warm a fuzzy holiday like Thanksgiving or...
View ArticleThe VA is it helping vets or trying to make it harder to get benefits?
In a highly rated diary today Obama Administration to Cover PTSD for ALL Veterans written by dansac. They showed how thru a NY Times article that the VA Secretary General Shinseki has added a new...
View ArticlePresident Obama has put the money where his mouth is on veterans
When President Obama took office the budget of the Veterans Administration was 90 billion annually VA Budget numbers for the past decade and for 2011 that included 44.9 billion for entitlements both...
View ArticleGeneral Lavelle & Nixon, Haig and Kissinger "honor'?
I have not written a diary in a while, but this issue is eating at me. By now everyone has heard what happened to General Lavelle in 1972. He was "thrown under the bus" by the then President of the...
View ArticleSarah, Newt and others are wrong on Park 51
I have not uttered a word on the cultural center in New York, for one thing I live in South Carolina, and like these other citizens of the United States what business of mine is it what they put in the...
View ArticleMy Vacation Diary, eh DC can go on vacation why not me?
I can not afford to leave town however so my "vacation plans" are not so elaborate. I will stay around the house and watch movies and read some books by my favorite authors and watch Keith, Rachel...
View ArticleUSA Today shows the extent of PTSD and mental Health problems at Ft Hood
In the past month we have been told that President Obama and Veteran Affairs Secretary Shinseki have now made it easier for soldiers and veterans to get VA benefits for their service related PTSD....
View ArticleCab driver attacker "uses" veterans as foil to deflect actions
I am probably making more out of this than is really intended but as a disabled veteran I find this article very "dicturbing" and yes I know how I typed that and it ain't a type....... stuff some...
View ArticleVirginia Thomas wife of Clarence Thomas Justice of Supreme Court
I believe all Americans have the right to organize and be involved in our political process. How ever I see some major conflict of interests here, she solicits donations to her group Liberty Central...
View ArticleWhy democrats MUST vote in 2010
It would be easy to write off these candidates as unelectable, Sharon Angle, Joe Miller in Alaska for Senator, "This is about changing the system," Christine O'Donnell, the tea party pick, said...
View ArticleMy thoughts on DADT I am a 55 year old disabled veteran of 2 wars
I am the last person I ever thought would be writing on this issue. I served in the Army with gays and lesbians while I was in the military. I never saw any conduct by any active duty personnel that...
View ArticleIs Veteran Affairs Medical Care changing?
I have been a patient at the VA Medical Center in Augusta Georgia for many years now. They saved my life with open heart surgery in 1997, and I have had excellent medical care from them over the years....
View Article"average American" what does that mean anymore?
I started asking myself that question a few hours ago, when a new "poll" was discussed on MSNBC that says 55% of Americans are worse off now than they were before the "recession" and that 45% felt no...
View ArticleRep/TEA Party candidates want to deny veterans VA Care
I thought it was the republican party who made a great big show about how much they loved the military and our nations veterans. Didn't Bush 43 campaign on the "PROMISE" a slogan he kept repeating...
View ArticleRob Miller Democratic Candidate for SC02
This is Rob Millers newest ad in his bid to unseat Joe "You Lie" Wilson Went from Team Miller on Vimeo.
View ArticleThis SGTs thoughts on the Fort Lewis Court Martial
I am an Infantry Staff Sergeant by trade, I spent my life in uniform serving this nation during two wars, the Vietnam War era, and the First Gulf War, I also served on the Korean DMZ, while it was...
View ArticleDeMint: Sexually Active Unmarried Women And Gay Teachers Should Be Barred...
This straight from Senator Jim Demint's mouth as this post from last night shows it appears Mr Demint was speaking at the Greater Freedom Rally at First Baptist North Spartanburg, S.C He admits he...
View ArticleSome thoughts on recent American History
I have been pretty silent lately, with all of the craziness of the campaigns, I am NOT a witch Christine ODonnell, Ginny Thomas's phone message to Anita Hill asking for an apology WTF? This on top...
View ArticleThe END of a trusted veteran news website
As a disabled veteran who does a lot of work with other veterans and their families for the past decade I have pointed many of them to the words and articles at The VA Watch Dog written and published...
View ArticleWhy this veteran is asking you to vote today & Poll
I love this nation, I have ever since I knew what it meant to be an American. I enlisted in our nations Army in 1973, when it was NOT a normal thing to do, most people prayed they wouldn't be drafted....
View ArticleVeteran Affairs is NOT discretionary spending
I have heard all of the promises made by the new (thinks he is going to be speaker of the house) John Boehner, he promises to return all discretionary spending to the levels of 2008. The NEW GI Bill...
View ArticlePTSD Cases In State Up: this is a national problem
The article deals with Connecticut, but in reality this is happening in Veterans hospitals across this entire nation, there are NOT enough beds for mental health patients. The author Lisa Chedekel has...
View Article"Stimulus package that Republicans Love" why?
I realize I am an old man that gets easily confused, but I swear since that the stimulus package was passed 2 years ago, the republicans have been calling for the money to be returned to the federal...
View Article2010 the year in Review my 2 cents on the insane
I am like most Americans, I have my opinion on how the past year has been, both personally and politically. I am amazed at the amount of good stuff coming out of the Senate since the "lame duck"...
View ArticleMy Xmas story how a PTSD dysfunctional family works
I have written before about my PTSD, I am not proud of the way I treated my family over the years, this was in the years before I admitted to myself that I had the problem and sought help for it. This...
View ArticleMike Rogers R-Mich to investigate Obama Interrogation team WTF?
Color me stupid and maybe ignorant but where was the outrage and demand from the republicans after 9/11 when Vice President Cheney and President Bush threw out all the Geneva Conventions and Army...
View ArticleMichelle Bachmann wants to be President? Really and other fun
The year is new and the silly season really has begun if this has made it into the WAPO Michele Bachmann for president. Seriously?! This is almost as funny as this was SC man busted for having sex...
View ArticleHatred and speech it does matter words do have meaning
It has been a day since the shooting in Tucson, I have listened to many newscasts and read many articles about who created this atmosphere the left or the right, and when I stop to think about it, we...
View ArticleThe State of my Union & poll
Let me start with the fact that I am not the President of anything, I am not even a Michelle Bachmann type, I am a simple American, who has spent my life as a soldier during 2 wars, I enlisted during...
View ArticleI am not in a "safety net" Rep Ryan I earned my benefits
Tonight you made it sound like I am a lazy person who just lays around the house waiting for the federal nanny state to send me a check every month. I for one resent the hell out of your statements....
View ArticleBachmann tells disabled veterans & families go broke U cost too much
I will be the first to admit no one enlists in the military for the benefits of becoming a totally disabled veteran, approximately 2700 a month from VA Compensation and about 1000 a month from Social...
View ArticleTEA Party to help Democratic candidates in 2012
I was reading the NY Times a few minutes ago and I realized that Republican Senators that we would normally never stand a chance to unseat on our own are going to more than likely be defeated by the...
View ArticleMy random thoughts on Ohio & Wis and Unions
Okay I have waited for the bugs to be worked out, I have commented on some diaries and recommended quite a few, so I am ready I am mad about the union bashing activities of Ohio and Wisconsin, it...
View ArticleProud of my son & Poll
A year ago I tried my best to talk my son out of enlisting in the Army and to follow in his fathers footsteps after high school. I wanted my son to go to college instead of enlisting in the Army...
View ArticlePTSD August Letter from the NCPTSD
I would think by now most if not ALL people who have been here 6 months or longer would know that I am a 100% P&T disabled by PTSD and have been since Dec 2003. I am rated at the 100% schedular...
View ArticleRecession pushes more in D.C. area to live with relatives
The WAPO article on this issue deals primarily with Washington DC, however this is an issue that is affecting every state and most cities across this nation. What used to be seldom done is now...
View ArticleMedical fix it time
I have been in and out of ICUs since April with Congestive Heart Failure, they sent me to MUSC and Dr Peura she evaluated me for either as LVAD device (same type of machine that Dick Cheney has) ot...
View ArticleVeteran Health Care how it can work
I am a totally disabled veteran who served this nation in two wars, from the Vietnam Era October 1973 thru Desert Storm and my discharge in May 1991. I was lucky and spent the Vietnam war era on the...
View ArticleWhy I am one of the 99%
I have attempted to try and live my life according to the American dream, I graduated high school, I enlisted in the Army during the Vietnam War. Since my entire family had served in the Army since...
View ArticleGov Nikki Haley orders OWS protestors arrested
Our Governor decided that it is against the law to protest after 6 pm on the State House Property. She had the S.C. Bureau of Protective Services troopers took 19 Occupy Columbia protesters in front...
View ArticlePoll & Duncan D. Hunter , R CA-52 on wrong side of SGT Stein
It appears that Congressman Hunter has attempted to use his position as a Congressman to get the Marine Corp to stop administrative actions to remove SGT Gary Stein from the rolls based on his...
View ArticlePresident Obama saved my family 3 hundred a month
I am like most Americans, I pay my bills on time, my car payment, utilities and the mortgage. Despite the fact that since we bought our home the value has dropped from 180,000 to 162,000 so we now...
View ArticleThe U.S.O or the United Service Organization
Gulf War Bob Hope and Ann Jillian perform at the USO Christmas Tour during Operation Desert ShieldTo support troops participating in Operation Desert Shield, USO centers opened in Saudi Arabia....
View ArticleHey Mitt, I am not a "victim" I am a "Promise"
When I enlisted in the Army during the Vietnam War era, and re-enlisted again in 1976, then joined the National Guard in 1988 and was federalized when the First Gulf War began in November 1990 and was...
View ArticleI need help and need people to contact Senator Sanders about a veterans issue
Senator Bernie Sanders is now the Chairman of the Senate VA Committee, and he can change the way veterans are treated. As many of you know I am a totally disabled veteran of military service, I served...
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