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Another brave veteran with a long history. Read his comments about the Cold War
Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.
"We Remember"
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Cold War's Greatest Generation
An article from Forbes. Yes We Won the Cold War
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/09/cold-war-berlin-wall-opinions-contributors-matthew-kaminski.html
Jerald Terwilligr
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.
"We Remember"
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/09/cold-war-berlin-wall-opinions-contributors-matthew-kaminski.html
Jerald Terwilligr
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.
"We Remember"
2266 Veterans died in 2008 with no insurance
From Truth Out
http://www.truthout.org/topstories/111009ms02
Study: 2,266 Veterans Died Due to Lack of Insurance in 2008
Tuesday 10 November 2009
by: Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t | Report
More than 2,200 veterans under the age of 65 died last year due to lack of health insurance, according to a study out of Harvard Medical School released today. This number - 2,266 in one year - is more than 14 times the number of US troops who died in Afghanistan in 2008.
The researchers also found that, in 2008, 1,461,615 veterans between the ages of 18 and 64 lacked insurance.
Steffie Woolhandler, one of the study's authors, pointed out that most uninsured veterans fall into a common coverage gap: they aren't poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or special VA benefits, but earn too little to pay for health care on their own.
"Uninsured veterans have the same problems getting the care they need as do other unsinsured Americans," Woolhandler said in testimony before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. "Moreover, many uninsured veterans have serious illnesses requiring extensive care."
Many veterans cannot receive care from the VA, even if they've been through combat, according to Woolhandler. Generally, VA facilities only treat medical problems or disabilities specifically acquired during military service.
The Harvard researchers stressed that the health care bill that recently passed the House would do little to address veterans' health care woes, and that the "solution that works for all veterans" would be a single-payer health insurance plan.
http://www.truthout.org/topstories/111009ms02
Study: 2,266 Veterans Died Due to Lack of Insurance in 2008
Tuesday 10 November 2009
by: Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t | Report
More than 2,200 veterans under the age of 65 died last year due to lack of health insurance, according to a study out of Harvard Medical School released today. This number - 2,266 in one year - is more than 14 times the number of US troops who died in Afghanistan in 2008.
The researchers also found that, in 2008, 1,461,615 veterans between the ages of 18 and 64 lacked insurance.
Steffie Woolhandler, one of the study's authors, pointed out that most uninsured veterans fall into a common coverage gap: they aren't poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or special VA benefits, but earn too little to pay for health care on their own.
"Uninsured veterans have the same problems getting the care they need as do other unsinsured Americans," Woolhandler said in testimony before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. "Moreover, many uninsured veterans have serious illnesses requiring extensive care."
Many veterans cannot receive care from the VA, even if they've been through combat, according to Woolhandler. Generally, VA facilities only treat medical problems or disabilities specifically acquired during military service.
The Harvard researchers stressed that the health care bill that recently passed the House would do little to address veterans' health care woes, and that the "solution that works for all veterans" would be a single-payer health insurance plan.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Article from the Stars and Stripes
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=65989
Thank Cold War veterans too
Stars and Stripes
Letters to the Editor, Tuesday, October 10, 2009
Twenty years ago it fell. It was the symbol of intimidation, of subjugation of the entire world, one heartbeat away from total annihilation. The world called it the Berlin Wall, and for 27 years it was a visible sign of cancerous evil.
Before the wall was built, an unbroken line of barbed wire, gun towers and bunkers created, in Winston Churchill’s remarkable phrase, an Iron Curtain that extended from the North Sea to the Adriatic. Only Berlin remained open. In 1961, that too was closed, by the Berlin Wall.
Country after country was targeted for subjugation. In Korea and Vietnam, cold words turned into open warfare. The power that crafted these conflicts shifted between open warfare in eastern lands to intimidation in the West. In Berlin, the difference between freedom and tyranny was absolutely clear. It was the season of the Cold War, lasting 44 years.
Generations of Americans, Europeans and other lovers of freedom stood guard on the Iron Curtain and at the wall. One step from mass destruction, they resisted subjugation and tyranny. They faced that evil and said clearly, “No Entry” in Europe and Asia.
To every thing there is a season. This Veterans Day is the season to salute veterans of the Cold War. They served in Vietnam, Korea, Europe and many other lands. It is the season to say “thank you” to generations who were neither thanked nor welcomed home.
On Nov. 11, as the wall is remembered, thank those generations who made the fall of the wall possible and saved the world from annihilation.
Dave Theis
Mannheim, German
Thank Cold War veterans too
Stars and Stripes
Letters to the Editor, Tuesday, October 10, 2009
Twenty years ago it fell. It was the symbol of intimidation, of subjugation of the entire world, one heartbeat away from total annihilation. The world called it the Berlin Wall, and for 27 years it was a visible sign of cancerous evil.
Before the wall was built, an unbroken line of barbed wire, gun towers and bunkers created, in Winston Churchill’s remarkable phrase, an Iron Curtain that extended from the North Sea to the Adriatic. Only Berlin remained open. In 1961, that too was closed, by the Berlin Wall.
Country after country was targeted for subjugation. In Korea and Vietnam, cold words turned into open warfare. The power that crafted these conflicts shifted between open warfare in eastern lands to intimidation in the West. In Berlin, the difference between freedom and tyranny was absolutely clear. It was the season of the Cold War, lasting 44 years.
Generations of Americans, Europeans and other lovers of freedom stood guard on the Iron Curtain and at the wall. One step from mass destruction, they resisted subjugation and tyranny. They faced that evil and said clearly, “No Entry” in Europe and Asia.
To every thing there is a season. This Veterans Day is the season to salute veterans of the Cold War. They served in Vietnam, Korea, Europe and many other lands. It is the season to say “thank you” to generations who were neither thanked nor welcomed home.
On Nov. 11, as the wall is remembered, thank those generations who made the fall of the wall possible and saved the world from annihilation.
Dave Theis
Mannheim, German
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Memories of Germany
For those of you who stood the line in Germany, a link to a site that might bring
back a lot of memories, good or bad
http://bit.ly/1DL7yV
Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.
"We Remember"
back a lot of memories, good or bad
http://bit.ly/1DL7yV
Jerald Terwilliger
National Chairman
American Cold War Veterans, Inc.
"We Remember"
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