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In This Issue August 15, 2014
Vietnam War Veterans Who Suffer From "Agent Orange" Raise Awareness
PTSD Found to Still Persist Among Vietnam Vets
VVA Letter to VA Employees

Alabama VA Finds More Unread Patient X-rays
Commission to Review VA Scheduling Practices
NH Starts Vets' Court
Walsh Drops Out from MT Senate Race
Suicude Prevention Hotline
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Vietnam War Veterans Who Suffer From "Agent Orange" Raise Awareness

KWCH TV in WICHITA, Kansas, is one of the many media outlets that covered the August 7 Faces of Agent Orange Town Hall meeting held in conjunction with VVA's National Leadership & Education Conference:
Agent Orange Video
Hundreds of war veterans talked about "Agent Orange" at a meeting in Wichita. They wanted to know what was being done about it. The chemical was used during the Vietnam War to clear the jungle. Now, veterans are saying it has not only affected their mental, physical, and emotional health, but also their families. The reason so many veterans were there is to raise awareness of "Agent Orange" and file a claim.
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More Research Needed on Progeny of Vets Exposed to Toxins

In an August 12 Army Times article by Patricia Kime, several U.S. senators say more research is needed on the health of the children and grandchildren of troops exposed to environmental pollution and chemicals while they served in the military. 
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As Reported by The New York Times

PTSD Found to Still Persist Among Vietnam Vets

A veteran visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in November. A study funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs tracked post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans of the era. Credit Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
In an August 7 New York Times article, reporter Ben Carey details some of the findings from the National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study (i.e., the NVVLS, follow up to the historic National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study from the 1980's).
Read more here

NOTE: Dr. Bill Schlenger, one of the study's principal investigators, addressed the VVA National Leadership & Education Conference in Wichita on August 6, 2014.
Letter From John Rowan

VVA Letter to VA Employees

-from an August 10 letter to VA employee representative Alma Lee from VVA National President John Rowan: 

Every day, there are thousands of dedicated VA employees who work their hearts out to provide high-quality medical care to veterans at VA Medical Centers across our nation, and they do provide such care to hundreds of thousands of veterans every day. This is true, no matter how much they may be punished for doing the right thing and, all too often, are punished for being honest people of integrity. The managers and supervisors who take such reprisal actions need to be summarily fired.
Similarly, there are thousands of VA employees who work hard every day to assist veterans with their claims for compensation and pension, or to assist veterans with home-loan guarantees, or GI Bill educational assistance, or VA Vocational Rehabilitation benefits, or work hard to assist veterans' families with a dignified and  proper burial for their veteran.
Our job at the Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) is to help the new leadership at VA get rid of the relatively few employees, particularly in the management ranks, who have proven themselves unworthy. These and other actions will be necessary in order to restore confidence of veterans and their families in the VA, as well as the public. Our aim is to fix the VA and to make it again possible for the good VA employees to have justifiable pride in their organization.
VA needs leadership at every level that is worthy of leading their many dedicated employees.
—John Rowan, VVA National President
As Reported by USA Today

Alabama VA Finds More Unread Patient X-rays

(Photo: Montgomery Advertiser file photo)
In an August 12 article appearing in USA Today by Montgomery Advertiser reporter Kala Katchmar, a review of the imaging system at the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System prompted by 900 lost X-rays revealed there were an additional 1,146 unread patient exams going back to 2011.
Read more
As Reported on Military.com

Commission to Review VA Scheduling Practices

Obama and McDonald
In an August 9 Military.com news article by Bryant Jordan, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald announced that an independent organization will review patient scheduling processes for all VA medical facilities in the country.
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As Reported by Washington Times

NH Starts Vets' Court

Judge James Leary questions Veteran Brandon Bastille Thursday Aug. 7, 2014, in Nashua Circuit Court in Nashua, N.H. Bastille is the state's first case designed to handle the cases of military veterans whose crimes were driven by substance abuse, trauma and anger management issues that stem from their service. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
In an AP article published in the August 7 Washington Times, Lynne Tuohy reported on New Hampshire's first criminal court docket dedicated to veterans with mental health and substance-abuse issues.
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As Reported by The Washington Post

Walsh Drops Out from MT Senate Race

Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont., speaks on the National Mall in Washington.
According to an AP report in the The Washington Post on August 7, U.S. Senator John Walsh (D-MT) dropped his election campaign amid allegations he plagiarized large portions of a 2007 research project, leaving fellow Democrats to scramble for a replacement with the election less than three months away.
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