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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips The Service Dog Program clipped by: jkrabbit clippers remarks: This is such a win win situation, I hope the Va gets on board and helps the Vets that need a dog to get one. Clip Source: www.military.com VA Canine Program on Track After Delays HOUSTON - The drone of helicopters still haunts William Callahan decades after Vietnam combat left him paralyzed, but he said government bureaucracy stood in the way of getting the one thing that made the echoes stop and kept him independent: a service dog. It took four years and giving up on a Veterans Affairs canine program for Callahan to find Taylor, a specially trained Labrador retriever. Finally, about eight years after the program began, many hope it will start finding homes for the four-legged companions that can help disabled veterans be more independent, better deal with post traumatic stress syndrome and to just be a friend Maddiford wants the VA to pair more veterans with service dogs to give returning troops the same peace hes found. "Ive done everything theyve told me and this is finally something that has worked," he said. "I hope the VA follows through and does this." Tags: k9, service dogs zum Artikel... Think Vietnam Vets Were Screwed? Wait Until You See How Many Veterans of Bushs Wars End up in Jail clipped by: brightlight4 Clip Source: www.alternet.org Think Vietnam Vets Were Screwed? Wait Until You See How Many Veterans of Bushs Wars End up in Jail Far too many soldiers end up behind bars while the rest of us are free to ignore the human evidence of what our military ventures really cost. As all the other justifications for the U.S. invasion of Iraq have fallen by the wayside, it is ironic that the one that remains is "freedom," because in the name of someone elses freedom, we train our own soldiers to behave in ways that may very well cost them their own. Gordy Lane is a retired Syracuse police detective who served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. As a cop, it was his job to put lawbreakers behind bars, but as a veteran, he understands that when you go to war, "you come back a little different than when you went over there." Even 10 years ago, veterans at Groveland and other New York prisons had more support and treatment options than they have today. zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de