Life After Veteran Suicide – A Tale of Two Families
The only place the full brunt of veteran suicide lands is at the feet of the veteran families. In addition to their mortal loss, there's a perfect storm of bad news coming at them from all angles. With the average funeral costs at $15,000, the $600 - $2,000 Veterans...
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Ken Amaro of First Coast News Visits Once a Soldier
Soldier Suicide Gets Some Primetime Exposure I'd like to thank Ken Amaro from First Coast News for doing a story on Once a Soldier. FCN enjoys helping veterans in the area and this was a great chance for us to get some serious local exposure. As a young nonprofit, and...
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Five Veterans Administration Patients Taking their Lives at VA Facilities
VA patients are taking their lives at VA parking lots in increasing numbers. This final protest is a call for help as well as a way out of the pain of PTSD or just bad treatment. Over the past two years these cases include: • An unidentified 76-year-old Navy veteran...
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Veterans Administration Veteran Suicides Making News Again
Soldier suicide is a national disgrace. To highlight the tragic circumstances at many VA facilities across the county, vets are killing themselves in VA parking lots as a last protest statement. Veteran suicide at a VA hospital parking lot breaks the hearts of...
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Assisted Living Benefits for Veterans – A Complete Guide
Reprinted by Permission from The Assisted Living Research Center Their superb and comprehensive page for Assisted Living Benefits for Veterans can be found here. This repost contains all of their original links, as well as links to their site's home page. Their...
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PTSD and Substance Abuse
Coming Home to a Different Type of Danger PTSD and substance abuse are two enemies that our veterans find themselves fighting in 2018. The combat exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan are linked, in various studies, to a sharp increase in the major mental health conditions...
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Veterans: Consider Ditching the Veterans Administration for Obamacare
Corrupt, Inept and Polluted, the VA is an Ironic Cause of Soldier Suicide With the recent findings made public on how VA whistleblowers are getting harassed for pointing out ways to improve the Administration, it's time to start hammering nails into the VA's own...
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Veterans Administration Shooting Itself Over Improving
While Veterans Are Dying Outside, VA Incompetency Continues Inside In a time when reform of the crippled Veterans Administration is a political win/win for every one, the actual Administration itself is doing everything it can to shoot themselves in the foot....
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Now That He’s Dead, the Veteran’s Administration Offers Georgia Veteran Suicide Victim the Care He Needs
In the end, his call for help was answered by a fire extinguisher, a robot from the bomb squad and a ridiculous statement from the very agency he was trying to change. With burns consuming 85-90% of his VA-neglected mind and body, Air Force veteran 58-year-old John...
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