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Joseph Sestak
Democrat - PA

 

PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 18, 2010

 

Retired Rear Admiral and current Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 7th District, Joseph Sestak is running for the United States Senate.  He is the highest-ranking former military officer ever to serve in Congress. In his two terms in Congress he has been a vigilant stand for freedom, security, honor and integrity, so vigilant in fact that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer named him the most productive freshman member of Congress in 2007. He will work hard for Pennsylvania and the nation from the floor of the Senate.  Our respect for Congressman Sestak is immense and we at VetPAC are honored to endorse his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.  In this new capacity he will serve as he has always served our nation, with honor, respect, and integrity.

 

Congressman Sestak can win this race, but first he has to win his primary contest with newly minted Democrat, Senator Arlen Specter.

 

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Glenn Beck--"Restoring Honor" or Exploiting the Children of Dead War Heroes? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Rob Diamond   
Monday, 08 March 2010

Posted  on Huffington Post 8 March, 2010 

 

I received an email Monday morning that stopped me in my tracks. It contained a link to the seemingly noble organization called the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) (http://www.specialops.org) -a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt, federally registered charity whose own mission statement says:

 

"The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families."

 

As a veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom I thought, "what a meaningful charitable organization to give my support." But sadly, things are not as noble as they look.

 

Continue here.

 

 
Home Fires: The Bomb Within Us PDF Print E-mail
Written by BRIAN TURNER   
Thursday, 04 March 2010

This is the third in a five-part series, “Retelling the War,” in which veterans discuss how books, movies and other tales of combat shaped their perceptions of themselves and of war.

HANOI — Cinematheque, a small art house theater here, isn’t easy to find; it’s tucked down a long, narrow, dimly lit alley lined with motorbikes. It feels a bit clandestine turning down that shadowy corridor before emerging into the hanging foliage and candlelit courtyard of the Hotel des Artistes.

At Cinematheque, I met up with two acquaintances, Lady Borton and Chuck Searcy, for a screening of “The Hurt Locker.” I was well aware of the historically loaded nature of the situation — me, an Iraq war veteran, going to see a fictional film set in that war, in a land still marked by the horror of one of our previous wars, one that for many Americans was only experienced through other fictional films — like “Apocalypse Now,” “The Deer Hunter” and “Platoon.”


In the summer of 2004 (while I was still in Iraq) I wrote a poem called “The Hurt Locker” — it appeared in my book, “Here, Bullet,” published in 2005. I’d first heard the phrase (which means, in a broad sense, a private place of pain) when my squad leader turned to me and voiced his frustration with so many indirect attacks on us (mortar attacks, roadside bombs,
snipers, etc.). He said, “Sometimes I just want to put them in the hurt locker.” It was a bizarre phrase that stuck with me for about two weeks before I wrote the poem. Hearing the title of this film rekindled my curiosity in the phrase itself and sparked my interest in seeing it. 

 

Read the full opinion piece in The New York Times

 
Hiring to expand veterans' services: Q&A with W. Scott Gould, deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs PDF Print E-mail
Written by Interview by Ed O'Keefe   
Tuesday, 23 February 2010

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to hire roughly 105,000 employees in the next two years as part of the Obama administration's expansion of benefits and services for veterans. Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould talked Monday about the hiring plans and other department operations.

 

 

Read the Q&A here.

 
Shinseki vows to cut VA claims backlog PDF Print E-mail
Written by Kimberly Hefling ASSOCIATED PRESS   
Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Stands by Vietnam vets decision 

 

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio

 

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said he is making it a top priority this year to tackle the backlog of disability claims that has veterans waiting months - even years - to get financial compensation for their injuries.

 

Among those waiting for relief are sick Vietnam and Gulf War veterans to whom the former Army commander feels a special allegiance.

 

"I'm a kid out of the Vietnam era, I just have enough firsthand knowledge of folks walking around with lots of issues. If there's a generation of veterans that have had a tough row to hoe, it's the Vietnam generation," said Mr. Shinseki, 67, as he traveled through snowcapped mountains in Ohio and West Virginia between meetings with veterans.

 

Read the article here

 
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