America's Veterans

Katel, Peter. Caring for Veterans: Does the VA adequately serve wounded vets? CQ Researcher, April 23, 2010. Battle-scarred veterans often spend more time waiting for decisions from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on their disability claims than they spent at war. At least 500,000 veterans have waited an average of six months for a decision on a disability claim and another 200,000 have waited an average of five years for a decision on an appeal. New VA Secretary Eric Shinseki — himself a disabled Vietnam vet — vows to unblock the huge claims backlog, but it may take until 2015. That's partly because the VA has expanded the number of compensation-worthy illnesses from the Vietnam War. Veterans' organizations laud Shinseki but disagree over how deeply VA changes should run. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Congress are close to passing legislation to compensate relatives and friends caring for veterans with catastrophic, lifelong disabilities such as traumatic brain injuries arising from improvised explosive devices — the devastating homemade bombs that are the hallmark of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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Katel, Peter. "Wounded Veterans: Is America shortchanging vets on health care?" CQ Researcher August 31, 2007.

Triplett, William. "Treatment of Veterans: Is the nation keeping its promises to veterans?" CQ Researcher November 19, 2004.

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Glantz, Aaron. The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans. Berkely: U of California P, 2009. Print.
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Armstrong, Keith and Suzanne Best. Courage After Fire : Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families. Ulysses Press, 2005. [ebrary]

Grzyb, Frank L. Story for All Americans : Vietnam, Victims and Veterans. Purdue University Press, 2000. [ebrary]

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