This is what Oversight and Congressional Investigations should look like, sound like, something this Congess and Country are finally doing, Way Long Overdue and Too Late For Far Too Many!
This is what should have started in the previous Congesses as the War Drums were being beat harder and harder and especially as soon as 'Shock and Awe' took place!
Walter Reed is way beyond disgusting, especially as it sits in the DC area and is one of the two main Health Facilities that Everyone knew would be receiving the Maimed of this War of Choice, certainly not of need nor our security!
The talking points about Reed being on the list to close down shows their arrogance and how those we hire think the rest of us are totally ignorant { though many should think they are after knowing they hit the buttons that did hire these fools }, being fed those talking points by those we don't hire but whose jobs seem to be bettering these propaganda points!
Our monies should have been flowing into not only Reed but All the Military Health Facilities and the Veterans Administration at a time of War, Right From The Beginning! The Previous Congresses should have made this the Priority as well as holding the Nessessary Hearings Of Oversight of Everything Concerning Our Troops and This War Of Choice, They Didn't!
And the people of this Country, especially those who don't feel the need to contribute to ones society better start understanding that they Will Sacrifice Finally, because the Costs will be Overwelming and We All Will Be Paying Those Costs, not only in the money!
Any talking points, as we go forward towards this next election, aren't needed. What is needed is the Truth, that Absolutely Nothing Was Done for the Four Years of Death and Destruction this Country has waged against an Innocent People and Their Country, with their Blood on all our hands!
UNITED STATES SENATE
COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS
Hearing on Mental Health Issues
April 25, 2007
Room 418, Russell Senate Office Building
Click Here to View Hearing
{ When you bring up the Real Player it will show some 3hrs. 7min., but you need to slide the bar way over to the 26min to 27min slot as the first 26min's. plus doesn't carry anything, unless they fix the feed. The hearing is about 21/2hrs. long }
Witness List
Committee Leadership
Senator Daniel K. Akaka, Chairman
Committee Leadership
Senator Larry Craig, Ranking Member
Committee Member
Senator Sherrod Brown
Panel I
TONY BAILEY, FATHER OF JUSTIN BAILEY, IRAQ WAR VETERAN
Patrick Campbell, Operation Iraqi Freedom Vet, Legislative Director, IAVA
RANDALL OMVIG, FATHER OF SPC JOSHUA L. OMVIG
Connie Lee Best, Ph.D., Senior Faculty Member, National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, Medical University of South Carolina
Panel II
JAN KEMP, RN, PHD , ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR EDUCATION, VISN 19, MENTAL ILLNESS RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Ralph Ibson, Vice President for Government Affairs, MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA
DAVID OSLIN, MD, DIRECTOR, VISN 4, MENTAL ILLNESS RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
PATRICIA RESICK, PHD, DIRECTOR, WOMEN’S DIVISION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
As you listen to this hearing, about the destruction of our own, keep in mind what those we have invaded and occupy are going through, especially the children. And what future we have instilled on them.
Next time this Country, and there now will be a sure next time now, is hit with a Criminal Terrorist action your First Thought should not be "Why do they hate us so?", you had better know and understand the "Why"!!
What you can Start Doing
{ A Re-Post. There are 5 days till shipping and shelf space in stores for Ilona's Book }
Moving A Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops
May 1st 2007 starts the selling of the book.
Hoping that her Dedication and Heartfelt feelings, having grown on the subject of PTSD and especially the present day returning troops, makes it a Best Seller and hits the Best Selling lists of many publications, something I would really like to see and not only myself but other Veterans of our many Theaters of Conflicts and the Innocents of same, I will Unabashedly Keep Pushing this fine referance work.
Her work, and that of her many Dedicated helpers over at ePluribus Media helped put together a Great Referance book, especially for those who grew up in the Denial Years after this countries Debacle of Vietnam and knew, or heard, little about PTSD.
It's a Great Starting Point of understanding with a whole host of other referances that should be tapped into to get a much better understanding of what can and does happen to many, and could happen to you or someone close to you!
Visit Ilona's Site - PTSD Combat, often, for with all she's got going on she keeps everyone up to date on her findings and thoughts. Like this one A Personal Call to Keep Pushing for Our Veterans which is dated yesterday and found when going in to get her url, full of recent information and links.
Visit ePluribus Timelines for a host of reports that could very well be signs of the PTSD invading others from the returning troops to those who experianced, and lived through, Hurricane Katrina.
Get Involved in understanding better PTSD and other brain disorders that develope because of Tramatic Experiances that many go through that change the minds forever! As I said in the beginning, these can happen to little ones to us adults, many do not escape the memories that Tramatic Events leave behind!
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