Author: ilona

No end in sight. An overdose of a California Iraq vet who’d gone to the VA for help: Iraq war veteran Justin Bailey checked himself in to the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center just after Thanksgiving. Among the first wave...

The news just keeps on coming. This time, Newsweek reported that between 500 and 1,000 OEF/OIF veterans are homeless and that “[military] families [are] sliding into debt as VA case managers study disability claims over...

Yesterday the Washington Post reported that Fran O’Brien’s Stadium Steakhouse, a restaurant beloved by our on-the-mend combat vets at Walter Reed Medical Center, has been refused a lease renewal by landlord Hilton...

Promoted by Steven D. Way to go ilona! I’ve been out of it a bit since having the flu last week; have I woken up from its haze in an alternate universe or something? Tom DeLay shuts his campaign down, Chris Matthews covers...

The 3rd anniversary of the Iraq invasion finds an interesting situation brewing: returning veterans coping with posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] are no longer being hidden away from our view. Rather, the media is beginning...