Doug Giles, Jury selection for the trial for Eddie Routh, the man who killed American Sniper Chris Kyle and fellow Navy SEAL Chad Littlefield, is supposed to begin this week in Stephenville, Texas. For months we’ve been hearing that Eddie suffered from PTSD and that the VA is to blame for not getting him on… [Read More]
NSA officer: World Trade Center demolition Supervisor and Former Navy Seal Murdered?
Dr. Kevin Barrett, Was Michael Calabrese murdered to prevent him from talking about his participation in the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center Towers and Building 7? That is the explosive charge leveled by an anonymous source calling himself “Dave Adam.” According to former NSA officer turned whistleblowing journalist Wayne Madsen, “Adam” fears for his… [Read More]
Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi freed from Mexican jail, immediately returns to US
After 214 days in a Mexican prison, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi crossed the US – Mexican border Friday night, boarding a private jet for Florida shortly after 9 p.m., after a strong diplomatic push convinced a judge to release the former Marine on humanitarian grounds. His release comes after a lengthy trial and a Congressional hearing… [Read More]
Senator Walsh’s Plagiarism Scandal, PTSD References Angers Veterans
Matt Vespa Well, “papergate” continues to plague Democratic Montana Sen. John Walsh, who didn’t attribute roughly a quarter of his paper for his Master of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. After allegations of plagiarism broke, the Montana Senator said he had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder while writing the paper, but… [Read More]
Veterans’ response to senator’s PTSD remarks mixed
The talk in American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War halls and barrooms across Montana has been about Sen. John Walsh since the Democrat linked a cribbed research project he wrote in 2007 to post-traumatic stress disorder. How those veteran voters respond means a lot to Walsh, who has built his election campaign for the… [Read More]
Vet Dies in Standoff With Police After VA Turns Him Away
“They let him fall through the cracks and he’s dead now because of it” An Iraq War veteran died in a gunfight with police this past weekend, a tragedy that could have been avoided, his parents say, if the Kansas City VA Medical Center had only admitted him for treatment. On Sunday, Sgt. Isaac Shawn… [Read More]
Veterans, PTSD and US Government Abandonment
Chuck Norris Combat veteran Kryn Miner, 44, served 11 deployments in seven years. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury after a bomb blast in Afghanistan in 2010 threw him into a wall. It was one of 19 blasts he endured over two decades of service to his country. On April… [Read More]
Final Resting Place for 250,000 Vets is a Tin Can on a Shelf
Dearborn Patch – by Beth Dalbey For 35 years, the cremated remains of Sgt. Russell A. Shumway sat in a sterile metal can collecting dust at a Michigan funeral home. A North Dakota native, Shumway served with the Army’s 14th Cavalry in World War I, from May 1917 to September 1919. He was 86 when… [Read More]
Warning: Obama Might Have Just Figured Out How To Take Your Guns Away
William J. Olson, P.C President Obama announced that his Administration would do all in its power to stop gun violence. By that, he seems to have meant reducing private ownership of firearms. Now, it turns out that he is not just doing things within his presidential power to achieve that objective – he is usurping… [Read More]
3 Lessons Our Politicians Should Learn From Fort Hood
Chuck Norris As with all Americans, my wife, Gena, and I had our hearts broken again last Wednesday as we heard about another killing spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in which four people died and 16 more were injured at the U.S. Army’s largest active-duty installation. Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily’s commentator editor and journalist extraordinaire, reported… [Read More]
Iraq Vet Kills Three Soldiers, Self at Fort Hood, Hurts 16; Was on Watch for PTSD
An Iraq veteran fatally shot three soldiers and himself at Fort Hood in Texas, where a rogue officer killed 13 people in 2009, said Lieutenant General Mark Milley, the U.S. Army base’s commander. The soldier, who was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, killed himself with a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol as police approached,… [Read More]
Veterans Get Letters Prohibiting The Purchase, Possession, Or Transport Of A Firearm/Ammunition
Red Flag News – by Constitutional Attorney Michael Connelly, J.D., How would you feel if you received a letter from the U.S. Government informing you that because of a physical or mental condition that the government says you have it is proposing to rule that you are incompetent to handle your own financial affairs? Suppose that letter also… [Read More]