http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687 This might help some of you, if you qualify. http://www.military.com/veterans-report/bill-to-help-va-refinance-homes?ESRC=vr.nl I try to keep up with things that can help us. Nothing worse than a Vet losing his&nbsp;or&nbsp;her&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;part of the American Dream&quot; , know what I mean? This might help some of you, if you qualify. http://www.military.com/veterans-report/bill-to-help-va-refinance-homes?ESRC=vr.nl I try to keep up with things that can help us. Nothing worse than a Vet losing his&nbsp;or&nbsp;her&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;part of the American Dream&quot; , know what I mean? en-us <p>Something that may help -- even if just a skosh..................</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238354 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238354 <p>Something that may help -- even if just a skosh..................</p> <p>This might help too:</p> <p><a href="http://hamptonroads.com/node/263491">http://hamptonroads.com/node/263491</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238369 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238369 <p>This might help too:</p> <p><a href="http://hamptonroads.com/node/263491">http://hamptonroads.com/node/263491</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Rep. McCarthy voted *AGAINST* veterans benefits today:</p> <p><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll330.xml">http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll330.xml</a></p> <p>Support the Troops, indeed.&nbsp; Fortunately, the Democrats carried the day, and raised the money to pay for it too.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238670 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238670 <p>Rep. McCarthy voted *AGAINST* veterans benefits today:</p> <p><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll330.xml">http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll330.xml</a></p> <p>Support the Troops, indeed.&nbsp; Fortunately, the Democrats carried the day, and raised the money to pay for it too.</p> <p>In related news, House&nbsp;Republicans&nbsp;today got a clue and refused to vote for an extension of funding for the Iraq War...</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238687 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238687 <p>In related news, House&nbsp;Republicans&nbsp;today got a clue and refused to vote for an extension of funding for the Iraq War...</p> <p>I wasn't even trying to politicize this.</p> <p>Thank you for doing so.......................</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238696 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238696 <p>I wasn't even trying to politicize this.</p> <p>Thank you for doing so.......................</p> <p>You're welcome.&nbsp; *SOMEONE*&nbsp;in Congress is trying&nbsp;to help the Iraq vets.&nbsp; It ain't McCarthy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or McCain</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238703 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238703 <p>You're welcome.&nbsp; *SOMEONE*&nbsp;in Congress is trying&nbsp;to help the Iraq vets.&nbsp; It ain't McCarthy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or McCain</p> <p>Web's OK -- If you overlook his positions on the&nbsp; &quot;non-Vet&quot; issues (and his unfortunate party affiliation)</p> <p>............ and his unfortunate choice of novella subject matter............</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238707 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_238707 <p>Web's OK -- If you overlook his positions on the&nbsp; &quot;non-Vet&quot; issues (and his unfortunate party affiliation)</p> <p>............ and his unfortunate choice of novella subject matter............</p> <p><a id="title_permalink" title="Permalink" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/epidemic-continues-iraq-v_b_102232.html"><span style="font-size: small">Epidemic Continues: Iraq Vet with PTSD Kills Self, Brother</span></a></p> <p>The epidemic of suicides among veterans of the Iraq war with PTSD has become so common that I sat down to write about two news ones today and end up writing about an even more recent, and shocking, one. It involves a decorated vet who wrote about his PTSD for the <em>Marine Corps Gazette</em>-- and this week killed himself and his brother after a long police chase in Arizona.</p> <p>Police have discovered no motive for the killings, nor why the brothers earlier in the week may have planned to commit suicide by driving into the Grand Canyon -- Thelma and Louise style.</p> <p>Staff Sgt. Travis Twiggs, 36, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1993 and held the combat action ribbon -- and met President Bush a few weeks ago -- wrote a lengthy article in the January issue of the <em>Marine Corps Gazette</em> detailing his efforts to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. He loved his country so much he named his son America, <em>The Arizona Republic </em>reports today.</p> <p>His brother was Willard J. Twiggs, age 38.</p> <p>Greg Mitchell's new book includes several chapters on vet suicides and related issues. It is So Wrong for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/So-Wrong-Long-Pundits-President-Failed/dp/1402756577/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1194834498&amp;sr=1-1">So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq. </a>It features a preface by Bruce Springsteen and a foreword by Joe Galloway.</p> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/epidemic-continues-iraq-v_b_102232.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/epidemic-continues-iraq-v_b_102232.html</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_239587 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ChicoEsquela/26687/#c_239587 <p><a id="title_permalink" title="Permalink" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/epidemic-continues-iraq-v_b_102232.html"><span style="font-size: small">Epidemic Continues: Iraq Vet with PTSD Kills Self, Brother</span></a></p> <p>The epidemic of suicides among veterans of the Iraq war with PTSD has become so common that I sat down to write about two news ones today and end up writing about an even more recent, and shocking, one. It involves a decorated vet who wrote about his PTSD for the <em>Marine Corps Gazette</em>-- and this week killed himself and his brother after a long police chase in Arizona.</p> <p>Police have discovered no motive for the killings, nor why the brothers earlier in the week may have planned to commit suicide by driving into the Grand Canyon -- Thelma and Louise style.</p> <p>Staff Sgt. Travis Twiggs, 36, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1993 and held the combat action ribbon -- and met President Bush a few weeks ago -- wrote a lengthy article in the January issue of the <em>Marine Corps Gazette</em> detailing his efforts to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. He loved his country so much he named his son America, <em>The Arizona Republic </em>reports today.</p> <p>His brother was Willard J. Twiggs, age 38.</p> <p>Greg Mitchell's new book includes several chapters on vet suicides and related issues. It is So Wrong for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/So-Wrong-Long-Pundits-President-Failed/dp/1402756577/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1194834498&amp;sr=1-1">So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq. </a>It features a preface by Bruce Springsteen and a foreword by Joe Galloway.</p> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/epidemic-continues-iraq-v_b_102232.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/epidemic-continues-iraq-v_b_102232.html</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>