America's fighting men and women put their lives on the line each day to defend our freedom and secure the peace throughout the world.
Engaging the enemy with confidence in their cause, they are strengthened by the support and encouragement of their fellow citizens on the home front. With each challenge they overcome and each victory they achieve, America's courageous and dedicated troops help to safeguard the liberties upon which our country was founded. For more than two hundred years, these brave warriors have faced down every threat to our democracy, ensuring the preservation of our American way of life and strengthening the foundations of our great nation.
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Emercency Funds for OUR troops
Dear Howard:
President Bush scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the liberals in Congress on Monday: "It is time for members of Congress to meet their responsibility to our men and women in uniform, and they should stay in session until they pass these emergency funds for our troops."
And he's right!
It doesn't matter whether you agree with the war or don't agree with the war.
When our brave American military men and women are in harm's way... YOU DON'T CUT THEM OFF!
You don't use them as leverage in a game of political "chicken."
You don't refuse to give them the money they so desperately need to carry out their mission as safely as possible!
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NOTHING WILL ever be able to absolve this country for the disgraceful way it has treated its returning war wounded. Congress, though, took a big step in making amends with final approval of legislation aimed at fixing and upgrading the military health-care system. Expected enactment of the measure, along with the installation of a new secretary of veterans affairs, are important developments in righting the wrongs against America's soldiers.
The Wounded Warrior Act was incorporated into the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act approved by House and Senate conferees this month. The president is to sign it into law soon. Its provisions -- improvements in health care and benefits and the beginning of disability reform -- are a reaction to the scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A four-month investigation this year by The Post revealed squalid living conditions, poor outpatient care and a bureaucracy indifferent, even hostile, to the needs of injured service personnel. Perhaps even more appalling was the realization that the problems weren't limited to Walter Reed but extended to veterans facilities across the country.
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Among the immediate benefits, combat veterans are guaranteed mental health evaluations within 30 days of their request; the period during which recently separated combat veterans may seek care from the VA has been increased from two years to five years; and caregivers are given an increase in family medical leave. The legislation pays particular attention to the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by expanding treatment of and research on traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Most significant, the measure sets in place an overarching policy that requires the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department to work together -- not at cross-purposes -- on comprehensive reforms. Most of the issues identified by the presidential commission headed by former Senate majority leader Robert J. Dole and former secretary of health and human services Donna E. Shalala were addressed; that reflects the productive partnership between Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. Still on the to-do list is the big issue of how to restructure the disability system. No one questions the need for fixes, but how to carry out reform is proving to be a thorny issue, one that requires the continued attention of Congress if it wants to support the troops.
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