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Military Sexual Trauma Class action lawsuit
01JUL09 The law firm of Burke O’Neil is developing a class action lawsuit against the military. The lawsuit seeks to reform the culture that permits constant assaults and sexual abuse/harassment. At present, the team working on the suit seeks to interview anyone who has suffered from sexual abuse of any sort while connected to the…
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VA Vows to Improve Tracking of Military Sexual Trauma Care Following IG's Findings
Salem-News.com (Feb-04-2010 16:57) Salem-News.com Report requested by Akaka finds insufficient monitoring of whether veterans are charged for care that should be free. (WASHINGTON, D.C) – An Inspector General investigation requested by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) found that the Department of Veterans Affairs is unable to sufficiently monitor whether veterans are…
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A question for the Commander in Chief from Elizabeth Warren
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/c4q1EQ7L4Fc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1 Here is Elizabeth’s question: Mr. President, you honor women serving in the armed forces in every speech you give. But the truth is that one in three enlisted women is sexually assaulted while serving her country. According to a CBS report, in 2007 less than 12 percent of sexual assault investigations led to prosecution.…
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Women's scars of war
When retired Army Staff Sgt. June Moss returned from Iraq, she had to explain to her children why she couldn’t hug them. Any embrace longer than two seconds made her skin feel like it was on fire. “When I got back, my kids were really clingy,” Moss says. “They wanted affection. But, what do you…
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I Served My Country…and Wound Up Living in My Car
I woke up around 7:00 A.M. to the sound of someone knocking on the window of my Volkswagen. It was the police. They asked if I was OK, then asked me to move on. I’d spent the night parked outside a shopping center—not because I’d been too sleepy to drive home, as I’d told the…
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Sexual assault response An art project brings to light the lasting impact of the abuse on veterans, soldiers and civilians
By Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Appeared in print: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, page B3 The hand-painted words crowd each other on some T-shirts, appear sparsely on others. But perhaps the most powerful T-shirt in the Clothesline Art Project at the Eugene Veterans Administration Clinic is a black one with no words. Its creator, a victim…
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Is there a coverup of rape and murder of women soldiers?
Army Pvt. LaVena L. Johnson was a 19-year-old soldier who died in Iraq after being raped, beaten, shot and set on fire. The Army has ruled Johnson’s death a suicide from a self-inflicted rifle shot. The case is profiled in the forthcoming documentary, “LaVena Johnson — The Silent Truth,” due for release in 2010. It…
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Does Military Service Turn Young Men into Sexual Predators?
Does Military Service Turn Young Men into Sexual Predators? By Penny Coleman. Posted October 22, 2009 Every day, for four years as a West Point cadet, Tara Krause lived and worked alongside the men who had gang-raped her. Still, she managed to graduate in 1982. She served as a field artillery officer during the Cold…
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