The present Veterans Administration is the most pro-active one in my lifetime, lets keep it that way, as it always should have been! The Countries Responsibility is to Fully Fund!

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Rachel Maddow: Obama indicates beginning of end of war on terror "We got a huge round of tax cuts in this country a few weeks before9/11. Once 9/11 happened and we invaded Afghanistan, we kept the tax cuts anyway.
How did we think we were going to pay for that war? Did we think it was free?
Then, when we started a second simultaneous war in another country, we gave ourselves a second huge round of tax cuts. After that second war started. The wars, I guess, we thought would be free, don`t worry about it, civilians. Go about your business." 23 May 2013

How We Could Do More For Our Vets: "We need to go into debt to pay our debt to U.S. veterans to make sure they get the care and services we owe them."

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!

Prior too this present Executive and Veterans Administrations and just touching on the problems:

Army Times Oct. 16, 2008 - VA claims found in piles to be shredded

CNN iReport October 25, 2008 - House Vets' Committee To Probe VA Shredder Scandal

Tampa Bay Times Oct 27, 2008 - Hundreds of VA documents improperly shredded, review finds {Tampa Bay Times search page and series of articles}

CBS News February 11, 2009 - Veterans' Claims Found in Shredder Bins

And more disturbing in relation to even before and through the early years of the Afghanistan, quickly abandoned missions of, and Iraq occupations, this:

ProPublica and The Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2012 - Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
"DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War."

Add in the issues of finally recognizing in War Theater and more Veterans, by this Veterans Administration and the Executive Administrations Cabinet, what the Country choose to ignore from our previous decades and wars of: The devastating effects on Test Vets and from PTS, Agent Orange, Homelessness, more recent the Desert Storm troops Gulf War Illnesses, Gulf War Exposures with the very recent affects from In-Theater Burn Pits and oh so so much more! Tens of Thousands of Veterans' that have been long ignored and maligned by previous VA's and the whole Country and through their representatives!


America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people" - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!

These present wars have yet to be paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficits rising started before 9/11 and continued with same for the wars. But especially in the early some six years of extremely little was added to the Veterans Administration budgets by those Congresses, and since obstructed by same war rubber stampers, as to the long term results of War, DeJa-Vu all over again. Keeping the VA under budgeted causes problems and of many grow worse, which costs more to correct much more, which is the goal of those seeking to privatize Government Agencies as they attack the people of and which was created by their own incompetence and ideologies, but doing those served will!

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan" - President Lincoln




Are You Concerned About a Veteran? The Veterans Crisis Line Can Help>>>

For our sisters: National Women Veterans Hotline, call 1-855-VA-WOMEN (1-855-829-6636) New Hotline now up and running

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**IN HONOR TO THE FALLEN in Iraq and Afghanistan**

I started these lists after a Vietnam Brother contacted a couple of us, myself included, to post up the names of the Fallen from 2003 to the end of 2006, lists he had put together, mostly concentrated on the failed policy of the Iraq invasion and then occupation. I decided to keep the Honor going by posting up each month following those first lists we posted at the Daily KOS at the end of 2006. My early post were still concentrated at the Iraq occupation after most troops were pulled from Afghanistan allowing that to fester into what we have today and not securing or helping the Afghans once ridding the Taliban and not going after the reason we invaded, al Qaeda and bin Laden! Each one of us did a year and posted some ten minutes apart so they'd be on the posting list together. Since those early posts, my monthly ones as well, I've gotten better at integrating more related into each, so from early to latest, which lead to my early blog site, you'll see quite a difference in the postings and allot more related information added. The names are brought to the lists after the DoD has confirmed them all as to the previous month and found at mostly the CNN-Iraq/Afghanistan War Casualties site page or from the Iraq/Afghanistan Coalition/NATO Casualty Count site. I will keep upgrading this list, as well as possible page changes, the posts will still be on my other site, as I produce new monthly updates of those Killed In Action. In Honor Brothers and Sisters to you and your Families!




Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - May 2013 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - April 2013

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - March 2013 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - February 2013

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - January 2013 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - December 2012

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - November 2012 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 2012

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - September 2012 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan -August 2012

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - July 2012 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - June 2012

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - May 2012 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - April 2012

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - March 2012 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - February 2012

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - January 2012 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - December 2011

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - November 2011 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 2011

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - September 2011 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - August 2011

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - July 2011 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - June 2011

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - May 2011 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - April 2011

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - March 2011 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - February 2011

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - January 2011 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - December 2010

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - November 2010 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 2010

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - September 2010 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - August 2010

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - July 2010 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - June 2010

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - May 2010 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - April 2010

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - March 2010 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - February 2010

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - January 2010 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - December 2009

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - November 2009 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 2009

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - September 2009 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - August 2009

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - July 2009 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – June 2009

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – May 2009 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – April 2009

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – March 2009 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - February 2009

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – January 2009 * * Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – December 2008

Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – November 2008 * * Iraq/Afghanistan – October 2008

Iraq/Afganistan – September 2008 * * Iraq/Afganistan – August 2008

Iraq/Afganistan – July 2008 * * Iraq/Afganistan – June 2008

Iraq/Afganistan – May 2008 * * Iraq/Afganistan – April 2008

Iraq/Afganistan – March 2008 * * Iraq/Afganistan – Febuary 2008

Iraq/Afganistan – January 2008 * * Iraq – December 2007

Iraq - November 2007 * * Iraq -October 2007

Iraq - September 2007 * * Iraq - August 2007

Iraq - July 2007 * * Iraq - June 2007

Iraq - May 2007 * * Iraq - April 2007

Iraq - March 2007 * * Iraq - Feb. 2007

Iraq - Jan. 2007 * * Iraq - 2006

Honoring The Fallen Afghanistan 2006 * * Iraq - 2005

Honoring The Fallen Afghanistan 2005 * * Iraq - 2004

Honoring The Fallen Afghanistan 2004 * * Iraq - 2003

Honoring Afghanistan Fallen: 2001 - 2002 - 2003


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AP Interactive**Iraq: The Toll - Coalition Deaths since March 2003


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Iraq Veterans Memorial


The Iraq Veterans Memorial is an online war memorial that honors the members of the U.S. armed forces who have lost their lives serving in the Iraq War. The Memorial is a collection of video memories from family, friends, military colleagues, and co-workers of those that have fallen.


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Tracking coalition military deaths in Iraq, one day at a time, across the map. Click HERE to see the Flash-animated map.


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Iraq/Afghanistan Coalition/NATO Casualty Count and Much More


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Faces of the Fallen


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CNN-Iraq/Afghanistan War Casualties


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Track Military and Civilian Fatalities


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In Remembrance - Moving Tributes

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