Thursday, September 27, 2018

Ecology and Pollution related links 092718



Detroit's Public School District Shuts Off Drinking Water, Citing Lead, Copper Risk

Opinion – Truthout: Writing a new chapter, not an obituary, for the planet

Be part of the movement that’s ending the era of fossil fuels and building 100% renewable energy for all.

Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development: A regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organizations, coalitions, NGOs and networks

Houston Chronicle: McDonald’s at Ben Taub will not reopen after Harvey

EPA to revisit air pollution rule for power plants

Trump takes a lying dump on Puerto Rico's dead.

Historic Ruling Against Monsanto Finds Company Acted with “Malice” Against Groundskeeper with Cancer

Botswana's Ian Khama: Trump encouraging elephant poaching

Is the Government Planning to Surveil Keystone XL Protesters?

SEEDBALLS from Kenya for East Africa: JUST THROW AND GROW!

CIA Whistleblower Speaks Out About Climate Engineering, Vaccination Dangers, and 911

Extensive List of Politicians Paid Off By Monsanto

America Has a Tiger Problem

Michigan Man Discovers Glowing, Florescent Rocks Called "Yooperlites"

How far can California push the nation — and the world? Jerry Brown's climate summit may provide the answer

Rich-world wage growth continues to disappoint: Low unemployment has not pushed up incomes as much as theory would predict

Information and Resources: Hurricane Florence: WASHINGTON -- As Hurricane Florence makes landfall on the U.S. East Coast, we will update this page with the latest information, including tips for preparedness and dealing with the storm’s aftermath.

Where are the congressional hearings on Puerto Rico? In what he calls a "shameful failure of leadership," according to Sen. Jeff Merkley, GOP lawmakers want to avoid embarrassing Trump.

LIST: 46 Fayetteville neighborhoods at risk of flood

N Carolina hog farmers spray feces around black communities, and Florence will spread it everywhere

The problem with all the plastic that’s leaching into your food: There’s mounting evidence that it’s a health hazard.

Trump Sends Bottled Water Company That Failed in Katrina to Help North Carolina

Harrison Ford’s emotional climate plea: ‘Stop giving power to people who don’t believe in science!’

Hurricane Florence updates: 13 dead, including 10 in NC, as flooding continues

FEMA Left 20,000 Pallets of Water Bottles on Puerto Rico Runway for at Least Four Months

ABRAHAM FOUNDATION

On Hurricane Maria Anniversary, Puerto Rico Is Still in Ruins

Grizzlies Saved: Court Stops Trophy Hunt of Yellowstone’s Iconic Bears

Momentum Builds to Address National Park Maintenance Needs

Living Monuments

Yellowstone National Park

Forest Service Calls for Protecting Yellowstone's Doorstep from New Mining Threats

An Insiders’ Guide to Yellowstone National Park

Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan Puts 68 National Parks at Risk

Front-Lawn Fishing

A Voice for All Part II: Creating Space for All Voices

What Are Your Dangerous Ideas?

Wasting Away

Muskrats to the Rescue

Rolling Stones

On the Rocks

Battling History

Jerry Brown’s Climate Legacy Is Still Being Decided: The California governor has been a stellar first-generation climate leader, but now science requires leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

Jerry Brown vs. the Climate Wreckers: Is He Doing Enough?  The California governor has led the nation in reducing emissions, but activists say he won’t take the next step: leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

The Climate-Wrecking Industry… and How to Beat It: Insisting that we’re all responsible for global warming lets the biggest corporate polluters off the hook.

A climate tipping point in the Amazon: Illegal logging and land seizures are driving an ominous yet overlooked trend: tropical forests are flipping from storing carbon to releasing it.

Can Farming Save Puerto Rico’s Future?  As climate change alters how and where food is grown, Puerto Rico’s agroecology brigades serve as a model for sustainable farming.

The Green Jobs Revolution Needs to Include All of Us: A few years ago, Adan Anguiano was in prison. Now he has a career installing solar panels in East Los Angeles.

Environmental Malpractice Washes Onto the Beach

President Trump is sacrificing our public lands legacy: From reversing mitigation policies to opening our public lands to oil and gas drilling, the insults keep mounting.

Here Out West, ‘Smoke Season’ Keeps Getting Worse: Addressing climate change costs money. Wildfires gobbling up our country — and seas swallowing up our shores — costs more.

Trump’s atrocious coal plan: A rear-view mirror vision, unconnected to reality: Former Sierra Club chair explains why Trump’s desperate attempt to save Big Coal flies in the face of reality

Cancer-Causing Herbicide Found in Breakfast Cereal

Killing for Coal (Literally): Shocking as this sounds, the US government is — by its own admission — willing to allow up to 1,600 Americans a year to die to enrich a few coal billionaires.

Economics and Corruption related links 092718



Dear UK, Why Are You Leaving the EU?

In The Addiction Battle, Is Forced Rehab The Solution?

The Opioid Crisis Is Surging In Black, Urban Communities

As opioids land more women in prison, Ohio finds alternative treatments

Battling Heroin With A Hearse And A Prayer

In one Oklahoma county, the number of women in prison is falling. This treatment program might be why.

Don Jr. gets schooled on daddy's GDP numbers

Trump cancels raises for public workers because of deficit

New U.S. sexual misconduct rules bolster rights of accused and protect colleges

Trump just threatened to plunge the whole world into an unprecedented economic crisis

Capitalism and socialism in the twenty-first century

Democratic socialist writer levels with voters: We want to ‘end capitalism’

Democratic socialism, explained by a democratic socialist: It’s not just New Deal liberalism.

Who We Are & What We Do

The Gospel of Wealth: How did the “moral economy”—a concept that once encompassed a radical critique of capitalism—become the province of billionaires?

Booked: Imagining a World with No Bullshit Jobs.  As many as half of the jobs we do could be considered pointless, estimates anthropologist David Graeber. How did so many of these jobs come to exist, and what does it mean for labor activists?

Boris Johnson faces court over £350m claim: Boris Johnson is facing a court room showdown over claims he made about Brexit during the referendum campaign.

Brexit Scam: We Need to Talk About Tufton Street……

Where 'despair deaths' were higher, voters chose Trump: Counties where life expectancy fell also swung to Trump, the researchers found.

Prof. Richard Wolff: Capitalism on the Brink of Collapse

Pearls Before Swine

Richard Wolff WARNS (Sep/2018) 🆘 The US Housing Crisis As A Sign Of An Unraveling Economy

Many lawmakers and aides who crafted financial regulations after the 2008 crisis now work for Wall Street

A manifesto for renewing liberalism: Success turned liberals into a complacent elite. They need to rekindle their desire for radicalism

How America’s Supreme Court became so politicized: And what you can expect it to do next

Nearly 600 Russia-Linked Accounts Tweeted About the Health Law: The majority of the nearly 10,000 tweets on the Affordable Care Act seem intended to pit one side against the other

Report: Congress has Underfunded Public Schools for Decades

Trump’s Trade War With China Is About to Get Supersized: Washington is levying more tariffs, leaving Beijing to retaliate in other painful ways, from Iran to North Korea.

Ex-CBI chief lambasts EU leaders and UK over citizens' rights post-Brexit: Paul Drechsler says politicians should be ashamed citizens’ rights in UK and Europe have not been guaranteed

There’s a Fundamental Flaw in Our Thinking

Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids: As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services.

The new lawsuit to save Obamacare, explained: Patient groups are taking the Trump administration to court.

Republicans eye another ACA repeal vote if midterms go their way

FDA wants to boost development of drugs to treat opioid addiction

Rich business execs are using Trump tax cuts to buy bigger, fancier private jets

FEMA aircraft take flight from Greenville base

Man drowns in trailer near Cape Fear River despite mandatory evacuation warning

If CEOs Earn 1,000 Times More Than Us, They Don't Need Taxpayer Dollars: Companies practicing racial or gender inequality cannot receive government dollars. It's time to do the same for economic inequality.

Thanks to Obama Bailouts and Trump Tax Cuts, Five Largest US Banks Have Raked in $583 Billion Since 2008 Crash: "With no jail time for executives and half a trillion in post-crisis profits, the big banks have made out like bandits during the post-crash period."

The Trump Tax Cuts Did One Thing: Give Rich People More Money

Here’s Why Thousands of Steelworkers Just Voted to Authorize a Strike

I cut off parts of my body because insurance would cover it—but not the cancer I'm sure to get

Lying bastards furious at Emanuel Macron for pointing out that they are lying bastards

U.S. Budget Deficit Swells to $898 Billion, Topping Forecast

Senate passes $716B defense bill on Monday, June 18, 2018.  “Senators voted 85-10 on the defense authorization legislation, well over the simple majority needed to pass it….  Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y), Kamala Harris (Calif.), Ed Marley (Mass.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and GOP Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah) voted against the bill.”

War Is A Racket: By Major General Smedley Butler

Republicans Aren’t Bragging About the Economy: Tax cuts? Job growth? Nah. GOP candidates prefer scary stories about immigrant crime.

What History Books Left Out About Depression Era Co-ops: It would seem that a movement that provided livelihood for more than 300,000 people in California alone would merit discussion in the history books.

Death by a Thousand Charges: A Q&A With Devin Fergus. The author of Land of the Fee discusses wealth extraction through charges, fines, and interest.

The Inequality Industry: Since 2008, wonks, politicians, poets, and bankers have all started talking about inequality. But are they interested in making us more equal?

Why Loan Sharks, Car Salesmen, and Payday Lenders Love Mick Mulvaney: Trump’s pick to protect consumers is throwing students and members of the military under the bus.

The Great Equalizer: Barbara Ehrenreich and the ethics of dying.

Workers Get Scammed in the New Economy — As Coporations Get Richer and More Powerful: As corporations embraced the notion that their only responsibility was to fill the pockets of shareholders, workers’ wages have stagnated.

NAFTA 2.0: Details Bedevil

A Tale of Two Counties

Scoring Trump's Tax Cuts So Far: $280K for rich lawmakers, pennies for working people: Very few businesses have raised wages thanks to corporate tax cuts, but executives and lawmakers are buying new yachts.

HEALTH CARE MOTIVATES VOTERS — AND PHYSICIANS RUN AS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES

Tickling Trump’s Ear

Keeping Farms in the Economy

Will the Economy Determine the Midterms?

What If Banks Were Publicly Owned? In LA, This May Soon Be A Reality.  Voters will decide in November whether to take city money out of the hands of big banks.

If Your Boss Makes Millions, It’s Not Because of the ‘Market’: On average, America’s CEOs make 312 times what their workers take home — and that has nothing to do with supply and demand.

Retirement Income in the 21st Century

Schools Need Resources, Not ‘School Resource Officers’: Turning schools into prisons means sending kids to real-life prisons. There are better ways to keep students safe.

TRUMP IS A NARCISSISTIC ECONOMIC IDIOT

Brexiteer MP who tweeted about ‘EU protectionist racket’ while clutching lemons left sour after being schooled by an expert The 'tariff nerd' received thousands of retweets after debunking the MP's claims

Episode 866: Modern Monetary Theory

Real Home Security Includes Affordable Housing

The Dark Side of Paradise: Decision Time

The Economy Won’t Save Republicans in the Midterms

From Richard Collins III to Jordan McNair: The Shocking Negligence of the University of Maryland.  The murder of Richard Collins III and the death of football player Jordan McNair both could have been avoided.

Celebrating Labor Day

Will You Win the 'Throw Your Money at Amazon' Sweepstakes?

Imagine Our Economy as a Game of ‘Monopoly’: If you set up the board game like our actual economy, the poorest players quickly run out of money and the rich run away with the game. It’s unfair, boring, and exactly what happens in real life.

Labor Day: 24 Hours When Workers Are Human

Trump’s NAFTA Deal Simply Can’t Solve America’s Manufacturing Problems: A few additional crumbs for labor at a time when most U.S. manufacturing capacity has already been offshored or destroyed by militarization.

Trump Succeeds in Making Insurance for People With Health Problems Unaffordable

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Actually Drain the Swamp and Save Capitalism: The progressive senator tells The Daily Beast she's still a capitalist at heart as prospective presidential candidates look for a path to victory in 2020.

Robert B. Reich: Conditions are ripe for another economic crash

Free and Unfree Labor Alliance

Check Your Wallet: Can You Find the $4k Trump Promised You?

Health Policy: A Little Good News

The Woman Who Would Kill Health Care

You Can Teach Kids Hard Work, But Feed Them First: My brothers and I can support ourselves and our families today because of the food aid we got when we were kids.

Criminal Justice and Racism links 092718



Radio Hosts Suspended After Calling New Jersey AG Gurbir Grewal 'Turban Man' On Air

RON DESANTIS TELLS FLORIDIANS DON’T ‘MONKEY THIS UP’ BY ELECTING ANDREW GILLUM, FIRST BLACK NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR

Andrew Gillum Becomes First African-American Nominee For Florida Governor: The election for the top job in the third-largest state will be a referendum on President Donald Trump, who considers himself a part-time resident of Florida.

Pennsylvania Prisons Locked Down After Staff Exposed To Suspected Tainted Drugs

The Forgotten History Of A Prison Uprising In Vietnam

Texas Officer Who Fatally Shot Black Teen Is Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

Philadephia's New DA Wants Prosecutors To Talk Cost Of Incarceration While In Court

Prisoner Of Hope: Cornel West’s Quest For Justice

The Cure For Racism Is Cancer

Where We Start

Sunbeams

Guns, capitalism and race: A conversation with Bill Fletcher Jr.  We won't end racism until we end capitalism, says the radical thinker, writer and labor leader

Laundering Racism Through the Court: The Scandal of States’ Rights: In critical decisions on issues like voting rights and healthcare, the Supreme Court is using the guise of “federalism” to claw back hard-won progress toward racial justice.

CHINA AND SOUTH AFRICA DEEPEN MILITARY TIES AMID ANGER OVER TRUMP'S WHITE FARMERS COMMENTS

National Black Police Association Comes Out in Support of Colin Kaepernick

1,942,600 people in state prisons and jails in the U.S.

I Fought for Our Country. Now NFL Players Are Kneeling for Me.

Detroit Police Racially Harass and Retaliate Against One of Their Own

WATCH: Pittsburgh woman goes off on Dollar General cashier in a racist rant

KING: Why I'll never stand again for 'The Star-Spangled Banner'

Give Serena her respect. Please.

What It Will Take To Bring Real Justice for Laquan McDonald: Organizers don’t just want Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke indicted, they want community control of the police.

Black Feminism Will Save Us All: Why we desperately need real intersectional feminism.

Dallas cop uses white woman tears and racism to justify killing an unarmed black man in his home

Malcolm X on Liberals

Trump's judges double down, making it easier for prosecutors to convict innocent people

The Widest Political Divide in America Isn’t Between Left and Right: We’re split along racial and gender lines—handing Congress to Democrats in November won’t change that.

On Colin Kaepernick’s Nike Ad: Will the Revolution Be Branded?  Colin Kaepernick is now the face of Nike, which raises questions we should not be afraid to ask.

Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years

This is deep

Use of the ‘n-word’ is far from the only measure of racism

Civil War and Popular Memory

Congresswoman Maxine Waters Awarded at Play Featuring ‘Slaves in Epaulettes’

Silent Sam, Another Confederate Monument, Comes Tumbling Down

KAepernick may finally see justice in collusion grievance

Race, Slavery, and the Politics of Welfare

THIS SCHOOL YEAR, LET’S KEEP KIDS IN CLASSROOMS: There are better ways to help students learn from their behavior than suspension and expulsion.

Infiltrate Hate: Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’.  The movie is Lee’s best and most radical film in decades, and a lot of fun as well.

Veterans related links 092718



VA expands Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program to improve service to Veterans: Hiring effort underway to reduce counselor-to-caseload ratio

VA Interim CHIO Pulls A Trump, Tweets Resignation From Cerner Project

Vietnam Veterans of America Calls for the Senate to Pass H.R. 299, and Rename it the  John S. McCain Blue Water Navy Bill

Remains of Bakersfield naval aviator identified after 52 years of uncertainty

VVMF TO HOST CANDLELIGHT REMEMBRANCE AT THE WALL TO HONOR SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN

With McCain’s Death, Carper Is Senate’s Only Vietnam Veteran

VA announces $200M in funding for Grant and Per Diem Program to support homeless Veterans programs nationwide

BENEFEDS is your secure online portal to enroll in FEDVIP.

In Memory Honor Roll: While their names are not on The Wall, they are never forgotten. On the Vietnam Veterans Memorial site in Washington, D.C., a special plaque reads: "In Memory of the men and women who served in the Vietnam War and later died as a result of their service. We honor and remember their sacrifice."

Bill would make veterans involved in 1966 nuclear cleanup eligible for benefits

VA Cerner EHR Project CHIO Genevieve Morris resigns: After just one month on the job, the Morris reportedly stepped down as VA leadership “intends to take the EHR modernization effort in a different direction than we were headed."

Former Lockheed Counterintelligence Attorney Jim Byrne Now Acting Deputy Secretary

VFW Action Corps Weekly

Why being aware of your mortality can be good for you

You're Going to Die, Here's How to Deal With It

The Psychology of Death: Facing up to our own mortality

Focus on living in the present moment: “Life is only available in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your life deeply.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

Mystical Experiences Open a 'Door of Perception' in the Brain

PTSD Spirituality: Are There Esoteric Dimensions to PTSD?

A Radical New Therapy Could Treat the 'Untreatable' Victims of Trauma

Philadelphia Veterans Advisory Commission

Turn And Face The Strange: GI Bill Changes Are Late To The Party

New IG Report On Traumatic Brain Injury Throws Thomas Murphy Under Bus

Diana ‘Dirty D’ Rubens To Sell House For Profit After $288k Relocation Fraud

About the Vermont Humanities Council

Veterans invited to experience book club

Q and A: Steve Yinger talks veterans book club

War and remembrance

Veterans Book Groups: The Humanities and the Experience of  War

Home Sweet Home: Colorado Springs Voted Best Residential Area For Veterans

RAO Bulletin 15 September 2018

"Ground-breaking" for POW/MIA Monument to be held on Sept. 21

Student vet enrollment spikes at Ivy League schools

Commentary: How problem-solving is veterans’ superpower

Schumer calls for more funding, new hires at Veterans Affairs: The senator, who said there are 175 vacancies at the Northport VA Medical Center, vowed to fight for an additional $750 million in funding for the VA during federal budget negotiations this month.

VA implements new fiduciary regulations: Rules provide additional protections to Veterans and family members

Leader of Center for Veterans Issues in Milwaukee dies

The VVA Veteran Magazine

Former VA secretary Shulkin joins Sanford Health

Shulkin’s New Gig: Former VA Sec Hired On At Sanford Health
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/09/14/shulkins-new-gig-former-va-sec-hired-on-at-sanford-health/

Why Is the US Deporting Protected Vietnamese Immigrants?  A 2008 agreement allowed Vietnamese who arrived pre-1995 to stay in the U.S. Not anymore.

PTSD in Late Life

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Join TRICARE for September 27 Webinar on New Dental, Vision Coverage

VFW Action Corps Weekly

Legislative Priorities

National Legislative Service Key Votes

Local Resources

VFW Mental Wellness Campaign

The managers on the part of the House and Senate at the conference on the disagreeing
votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 5895) making
appropriations for the energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes, submit the following joint statement to the
House and Senate in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the managers and
recommended in the accompanying conference report.

US, North Korea resume talks on recovery of war dead remains

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Army Master Sgt. Leonard K. Chinn, 34, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, whose remains were previously identified, will be buried Sept. 19, 2018, in Silver Creek, Neb. Chinn was a member of Company D, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, when his unit was fighting off persistent Chinese attacks in North Korea. Chinn was reportedly captured by enemy forces on Dec. 1, 1950, and was held at several temporary prisoner of war camps before being marched northwest to POW Camp 5 Complex, North Korea. 

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Navy Chief Machinist’s Mate Dean S. Sanders, 38, of Lima, Ohio, whose remains were previously identified, will be buried Sept. 19 in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. Sanders was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship sustained multiple torpedo hits and quickly capsized, resulting in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Sanders. 

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Army Sgt. Eugene G. McBride was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 311th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. On Jan. 30, 1945, while engaged in an attack against enemy forces near Huppenbroich, Germany, McBride was killed by a blast from an enemy artillery shell. His remains were not identified by American forces after the battle. Interment services are pending.  

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Army Tech. Sgt. Robert J. Fitzgerrell was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 311th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. On Jan. 30, 1945, while engaged in an attack against enemy forces near Huppenbroich, Germany, Fitzgerrell stepped on an anti-personnel mine and was killed. His remains were not identified by American forces after the battle. Interment services are pending. 

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Leonard A. Tyma was assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded. Tyma died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943, during the first waves of the assault. Interment services are pending. 

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Army Pfc. Fred W. Ashley was a member of Troop C, 2nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Group, on a reconnaissance in the town of Paseka, Czechoslovakia. On May 4, German soldiers attacked Ashley’s platoon. Ashley’s unit reported him missing in action. Following the war, when Ashley was not among the American prisoners liberated from German captivity, the War Department amended his status to killed in action. Interment services are pending. 

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Navy Fireman 3rd Class Robert J. Bennett was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship sustained multiple torpedo hits and quickly capsized, resulting in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Bennett. Interment services are pending. 

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Navy Water Tender 2nd Class Clarence M. Lockwood was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship sustained multiple torpedo hits and quickly capsized, resulting in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Lockwood. Interment services are pending. 
http://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/Article/1625290/uss-oklahoma-sailor-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-lockwood-c/

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Navy Seaman 1st Class James W. Holzhauer was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship sustained multiple torpedo hits and quickly capsized, resulting in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Holzhauer. Interment services are pending. 

This week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that returning home with full military honors is Navy Radioman 3rd Class Bruce H. Ellison was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship sustained multiple torpedo hits and quickly capsized, resulting in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Ellison. Interment services are pending. 

Veterans Advisory Commission 6-20-2018

Processing system will speed claims, care, new VA secretary tells Tampa crowd

JWV of the USA • 2018 Resolutions

Full Metal Racket: How An Honest Bid To Preserve The Legacy Of Vietnam Sold Out

VA OIG AUGUST 2018 HIGHLIGHTS

Free Legal Help Getting VA Benefits

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Veteran Benefits

The 100th National Convention of The American Legion – in the city, and even the same area, where the first was held in November 1919 – called for a celebration of the Legion’s legacy.

VA researchers work to create 3D-printed artificial lung that may revolutionize treatment of Veterans with lung disease

The Forgotten March