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Camp Lejeune Lawsuit Goes Forward

The complaint was filed in Federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

(JACKSONVILLE, N.C.) - A federal judge has denied a motion by the government to reconsider requests to dismiss the $10,000 injury lawsuit of Marine spouse Laura Jones, who contracted non-Hodgkins lymphoma after living aboard Lejeune.

A judge previously rejected two motions to dismiss the case; one on the grounds that there were no standards for Lejeune’s TCE and PCE contaminants, the other because Jones’ cancer, diagnosed in 2003, fell outside the state’s 10-year statute of repose for injury claims.

Cong. Ron Paul: Classified Cable Proves US Ok`d Saddam`s Kuwait Invasion

HOW THE 20-YEAR WAR STARTED: FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD...

(CINCINNATI) - Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, how did the 20-year war get started?

It had been long assumed that the United States Government, shortly before Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990, gave Saddam Hussein a green light to attack. A State Department cable recently published by WikiLeaks confirmed that U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie did indeed have a conversation with Saddam Hussein one week prior to Iraq’s August 1, 1990, invasion of Kuwait.

Monsanto Executive Appointed to High Level Position in the FDA

Monsanto gave us Agent Orange, Aspartame and Cancer Causing Additives in our Food Supply -

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - In 2010, Veterans Today published a story about Michael R. Taylor's appointment as Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the FDA.

Taylor is a former top executive (VP Public Policy), attorney and lobbyist with Monsanto and has had prior positions with law firms, the USDA and the FDA.

JP Morgan Chase Overcharged Combat Troops for Mortgages

“No finer group than those who fight to protect our country everyday,”
You honor and reward them by maliciously taking their homes away?

(CLEVELAND) - Isn't enough that they served their nation under the most hostile circumstances ever imagined?

Sometimes it seems like the Veterans of this nation are nothing but some kind of non-human tool and I have news for you, they aren't.

`Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy` for Wounded Politicians, But Not Injured Troops?

Though top brain specialists have endorsed cognitive rehabilitation as an effective treatment for brain injury, Tricare officials have said that scientific evidence does not justify providing it comprehensively to troops.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was transferred today to TIRR Memorial Hermann, a premier rehab hospital renowned for its treatment of traumatic brain injuries.

The hospital calls itself “one of very few hospitals in the country designated as a model system for traumatic brain injury.” One technique is cognitive rehabilitation therapy. The treatment is denied to America's war injured...

Former Colonel Sues Marine Corps Over Camp Lejeune Water Contamination

A veteran who served on the base in the late 50's is Lejeune's 65th male breast cancer victim.

(WASHINGTON D.C. McClatchy) - A man who served at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune for nearly two years in the 1950s has sued the federal government for $16 million, saying poisonous water at the base caused his cancer.

Joel P. Shriberg of Pinehurst, N.C., was diagnosed in 2004 with male breast cancer and had a radical mastectomy on his left breast.

Twentieth Anniversary of Cold-Blooded Murder Passes

Marine Corps Colonel’s murder reported as a suicide, but forensic evidence supports murder and a government cover-up.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Twenty years ago this month, Colonel James Sabow, USMC, answered the telephone in his quarters at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California. “Hello, Colonel Sabow. This is Colonel Sabow.”

These were the last words that Sally Sabow heard her husband speak as she closed the front door of their home to attend an early morning weekday Mass in Santa Ana.

Camp Lejeune and Breast Cancer: Not Just a Male Problem Anymore

The Camp Lejeune water supply's smorgasbord of toxins have led to 64 male breast cancer cases; now we learn there is at least one female case also.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - As a nurse in the US Navy during the 1970's, Nancy (Neale) Brown was stationed at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina.

Nancy has enjoyed a successful life, but she is lucky; for at a young age, Nancy became a breast cancer survivor.

Day of Remembrance 2011 Taiko Festival

The 2nd annual Day of Remembrance Taiko Festival will be held in February.

(SEATTLE) - The “Day of Remembrance” is an annual observance of the signing of Executive Order 9066, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt that ordered 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry to be imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II.

Decades later, the order was deemed unconstitutional and was belatedly but dramatically reversed by the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.

Dogface Infantry Massacre on the Rhine

Baptism of fire with mortars and artillery; a scary introduction to the war.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - My 89th Infantry Division was one of the last to go to Europe in WWII. We left right in the middle of The Battle of the Bulge in which our casualties were catastrophic and the worst ever.

For us to be jumping into the Dragons Lair was pretty scary. We arrived in France January 10, 1945. It was cold, cold, cold with the ground frozen at least a foot. We had to put up our own 20 man tents which were frozen.