Written and performed by Erica Lane. Directed and produced by the Saylors Brothers. EricaLane.com USWings.com. Purchase here itunes.apple.com BALLAD OF SERGEANT HACK (LYRICS) Weary soldier, lay your head down low There’s no place that you can call your own Survivor, hero, warrior, and friend Soldier, the beating heart of men Little boy, your father doesn’t love you anymore The other children tease you ’cause you’re dirty and you’re poor And even though they beat you, little David, you won’t cry ‘Cause for you your brother traded in his life And now you’ve gone to war to make somebody of yourself First day at Vietnam, they tell you “Welcome, boys, to hell” And when the Purple Heart of valor to you is bestowed No one even cheers for you back home Weary soldier, lay your head down low There’s no place that you can call your own Survivor, hero, warrior, and friend Soldier, the beating heart of men And suddenly your life is flashing right before your eyes The enemy approaches and the shrapnel ’round you flies Alone and wounded, for your country, ready to be slain They bayonet your throat and darkness calls your name Sergeant Hack, you open up your eyes and death is not your glory The good Lord wanted you alive so you could tell your story Abandoned and debilitated, homeless and in love There’s not a greater man to be thought of Warrior, Soldier, raise your head up high Win or lose, you’d give your life for mine The battle’s over, take your castle back You are not forgotten …
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1. Union College marks 150th anniversary of ‘Taps’. It is the solemn 24-note military bugle call that launched a thousand handkerchiefs and became an American musical icon. “Taps,” a national song of remembrance that rarely fails to cause listeners to dab at moist eyes at the end of military funerals and memorial services, turns 150 this year.
2. VA teams up with heart experts on women’s health. The collaboration includes information for patients on programs to help with host of heart-related issues, and new training for physicians
3. Budget amendment would pull all four BCTs out of Europe. House lawmakers voted Friday to remove all brigade combat teams from Europe in coming years, a plan that would drastically reduce the United States’ footprint in the region and is opposed by military officials.
4. House passes defense bill despite DOD, White House objections. House lawmakers on Friday passed a $643 billion defense budget draft, setting the stage for a lengthy fiscal fight with the Senate and White House over the military’s future missions and funding.
5. The Swarm: New survey focuses on needs of California’s female veterans. Sacramento Bee As part of a series of pieces on veterans’ issues, I wrote a year ago about government agencies and nonprofits, especially the US Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, trying to gear up to handle the surge of female veterans.
6. VA health expansion, site plans on target. The Advocate The rollout of expanded health services for Acadiana-area veterans and the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ do-over of its site selection process for new clinics in Lafayette and Lake Charles are on schedule, according to an update from …
7. Gov. Haslam proclaims May 19 Armed Forces Day. Clarksville Leaf Chronicle Bill Haslam and state Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder today announced May 19 is Armed Forces Day. The single day celebration was created to signify the unification of the Armed Forces under one federal department; …
8. Department of Veteran Affairs, 15 Tribal Health Programs Sign Agreement. Alaska Native News 15 Alaska Native tribal health programs sign an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that will allow Alaska veterans living in rural communities to seek health care closer to home.
9. Tax records show charities spent millions on direct mail. CNN Beyond its finances, the other services that the National Veterans Foundation offers to veterans are also questionable. On its website, it says one of its principal benefits to veterans is a toll-free hotline, but the US Department of Veterans Affairs …
10. Lansing Community College program gives boost to veterans. Lansing State Journal Ferrell and other students with military backgrounds are scheduled to meet with Shinseki, who now serves as head of the US Department of Veteran Affairs, before today’s ceremonies. Ferrell plans to tell Shinseki how initiatives such as the Military …
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- Veterans Listening Session Scheduled For Monday. Door County (WI) Daily News “Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary John Scocos and Department of Safety and Professional Services Secretary Dave Ross will host a town hall listening session for veterans on Monday, May 21 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the City of Sturgeon Bay Municipal Building.” The “‘State of Wisconsin is committed to providing the highest level of support, benefits and services to our nation’s heroes,’ Secretary Scocos said. ‘The best way we can make sure we are successful in this effort is to get out in the state and listen to what veterans have to say and then adjust according to their needs.’”
- Use Of Last-Resort Antibiotics Rises In VA Hospitals, National Study Finds. Pharmaceutical Processing Magazine “To fight the rising number of drug-resistant infections, doctors in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals are more frequently turning to last-resort antibiotics, known as polymyxins, which can cause serious kidney damage, according to a new study in the journal PLoS One. Their rising use also may increase bacterial resistance to these drugs, leaving doctors, in some cases, with no treatment options.” The authors of the study are “physicians and researchers with the University of Utah and the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.” MedPage Today Study researchers cautioned that “what has been happening in the VA system might not reflect what has occurred in the US hospital system as a whole.”
- Paralyzed Woman Moves Robotic Arm Using Thought Alone. CNET News “By implanting a 96-electrode sensor the size of a baby aspirin onto the surface of their brains, researchers have enabled two quadriplegic participants to use their thoughts alone to perform tasks with two types of robotic arms.” One of the participants was able to serve herself coffee, noted Dr. Leigh Hochberg, a “neuroengineer and critical care neurologist who holds appointments at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Brown University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard.” Hochberg made this point in a news video about a study “that appears this week in Nature.” Hochberg was the lead author of the study.
- House Approves 20 En Bloc Amendments To Defense Reauthorization, Including Satellite Language. The Hill “The House approved its first slate of amendments to the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) early Thursday afternoon, including one that would allow the president to remove commercial satellites and components from the munitions list.” Another amendment from US Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) “states that Military Sexual Trauma (MST) continues to be a significant problem within the Department of Defense and many victims of MST suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The amendment would also state that the secretary of Veterans Affairs should review the disability claims process to ensure that victims of military sexual trauma who file claims for service connection do not face unnecessary or overly burdensome requirements in order to claim disability benefits with the Department.”
- VA’s IT Budget Would Increase Under House And Senate Bills. FierceGovernmentIT ”Funding for information technology systems at the Veterans Affairs Department would increase relative to this year under House Appropriations Committee and Senate Appropriations subcommittee versions of the VA spending bill for the coming fiscal year.” Under the “House bill, the Integrated Electronic Health Record, better known as the iEHR, would receive $104 million, with up to $169 in additional fund available for development and $65 million for operations and maintenance. However, the House committee would prohibit VA’s iEHR budget from using more than 25 percent of the appropriated funds until the VA and Defense Department’s joint program office ‘submits a fiscal year 2013 execution and spending plan, as well as a long-term roadmap for the life of the project that includes elements such as annual and total spending for each Department and a quarterly schedule and milestones for each Department.’”
- VA Effort Fights Heart Disease In Women. Army Times Veterans Affairs is “stepping up efforts to diagnose and treat heart disease in women as part of a cooperative effort with the American Heart Association. This is a timely effort, VA officials said Thursday, because the number of women using VA care has almost doubled in the last decade.” Dr. Robert Jesse, “VA’s principal deputy undersecretary for health, said the effort includes screening women earlier and more often for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and other heart-related issues.”
- Mental Illness Is The Leading Cause Of Hospitalization For Active-Duty Troops. NextGov According to its own investigation, the “Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have spent almost $2 billion since 2001 to buy drugs to treat mental illness and post-traumatic stress disorder despite growing evidence some of those drugs exacerbate PTSD symptoms.” NextGov adds, “Despite this vast expenditure on psychotropic drugs since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, mental illness ranks as the leading cause of hospitalization for active-duty troops, according to a report published by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center in the April issue of its Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, released May 14.”
- Lessons In A Catalog Of Afghan War Wounds May Be Lost. New York Times US Army Col. Michael D. Wirt has put together a database on injuries suffered by US soldiers who have fought in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wirt’s database shows “the promise and obstacles related to studying more than a decade of American war.” According to the Times, “there are concerns that the potential lessons from such data could be lost, because no one has yet brought the information together and made it fully cohere.”
- DOD, VA Agree On Joint EHR Architecture. Information Week DOD said that it and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had made ‘significant progress’ on their project to create an integrated electronic health record (iEHR).” Information Week added, “The DOD report to Congress is strong evidence that the departments finally have their ducks in a row, said Mary Lamb, COO of Suss Consulting in Jenkintown, Pa., in an interview.”
- 3M President Pleased To Hear About Data Dictionary Plan For Project. Government Health IT A “Sources Sought Notice that…VA” recently “put in Federal Business Opportunities” indicates that the joint iEHR project will use a “recently licensed open source Healthcare Data Dictionary (Open HDD) originally developed by the 3M Company that is now available to contractors through an HDD Content Download License.” Government Health IT discussed this with 3M President Jon Lindekugel, who said he is excited by the news.
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Paper trail: Michelle Gatz holds the logbook of the SS Schuyler Otis Bland, which apparently transported defoliants to Okinawa in the early 1960s. MICHELLE GATZ
Documents indicate jungle use in 1962
By JON MITCHELL
Special to The Japan Times
Recently uncovered documents show that the United States conducted top-secret tests of Agent Orange in Okinawa in 1962, according to a veterans services employee.
The experiments, believed to have taken place under the auspices of Project AGILE — a classified program to research unconventional warfare techniques — have also been confirmed by a former high-ranking American official.
The documents, which include a ship’s logbook, army deployment orders and declassified government records, were tracked down by Michelle Gatz, a veterans service officer in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
While assisting a former soldier who claims he was poisoned by these defoliants at military ports in Okinawa in the early 1960s, Gatz pieced together the paper trail of how the chemicals were transported from the U.S. to the island aboard the merchant marine ship SS Schuyler Otis Bland.
“The ship’s logbook shows it was carrying classified cargo that was offloaded under armed guard at White Beach (a U.S. Navy port on Okinawa’s east coast) on 25 April, 1962,” Gatz told The Japan Times.
The Bland was a civilian-owned ship regularly employed by the U.S. Navy to transport defoliants incognito and that was able to bypass customs inspections of military vessels entering foreign ports.
Three months prior to its arrival at Okinawa, the Bland had traveled to South Vietnam to deliver one of the Pentagon’s first shipments of defoliants. After departing Okinawa in spring 1962, the Bland sailed to the Panama Canal Zone where, the Panamanian government asserts, the U.S. tested Agent Orange in the early 1960s.
Recently, more than 30 U.S. veterans — all of them suffering from diseases consistent with dioxin-exposure — have spoken to The Japan Times about the presence of Agent Orange at 15 military installations in Okinawa, causing widespread alarm that the prefecture remains polluted by notoriously persistent dioxins.
The U.S. government has repeatedly denied assistance for these ailing veterans, claiming Agent Orange and similar herbicides were never present in Okinawa. However, the U.S. government still refuses to release large sections of its records related to the defoliant tests it conducted in the 1960s.
Gatz believes the Bland’s cargo was used in some of these tests — namely Project AGILE, which was tasked with finding how chemicals could deprive enemy soldiers of jungle cover and crops.
The publicly accessible pages of the project show that in 1962, the military was growing impatient with the inconclusive results of early defoliation experiments in South Vietnam, so it ordered an unspecified group in Army Chemical Biological Research “to develop advanced dissemination systems for defoliating vegetation.”
After filing a request with the Army College in Pennsylvania under the Freedom of Information Act, Gatz was able to pinpoint what she believes to be the precise unit — the U.S. Army’s 267th Chemical Service Platoon.
“The 267th was formerly stationed in Alaska, but the records show that in 1962, it was inexplicably reactivated, then transferred to Okinawa. It was brought there to conduct defoliant tests on the island’s tropical vegetation,” says Gatz.
The 267th Chemical Service Platoon was also involved in “Operation Red Hat,” the military project that shipped 12,000 tons of U.S. biological and chemical weapons out of Okinawa before its reversion to Japan, according to veterans’ testimonies and a 2009 ruling on defoliants by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
A retired American high official made headlines in The Okinawa Times last September when his account broke the military’s wall of silence by claiming that the Pentagon had tested defoliants in the island’s northern jungles near Kunigami and Higashi villages.
In an interview with the newspaper, the official, who declined to be named, stated that Okinawa was selected for such experiments due to its vegetation’s similarities to that of Vietnam and the lack of strict safety regulations that curtailed potentially dangerous tests elsewhere.
After reading the chain of events pieced together by Gatz, the retired official, who asked to remain anonymous, confirmed that her assertions were correct. However, he added that he was concerned for Gatz’s job security now that she was going public with her findings.
Gatz says she is determined to pursue the truth no matter what the consequences.
“These documents are the smoking gun. Now there is no way that the Department of Defense can continue to deny defoliants were ever on Okinawa. It’s time they owned up and started giving these sick veterans the justice they deserve.”
Source: www.japantimes.co
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Haaretz reported yesterday that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.”
It would appear that in spite of the extensive Hasbara campaign and the Jewish lobby buying every morally lax living politician, people of the world increasingly see Israel for what it is.
The broad international survey was an initiative of the BBC World Service. Over 24,000 people from 22 countries took part in the poll, which was conducted from December 2011 to February 2012.
Haaretz confirms that the survey’s findings on global attitudes toward Israel are “worrying indeed.” Last year’s survey already confirmed that attitudes toward Israel were negative, but the situation has become more serious this year: Some 47% of participants in the 2011 survey had negative views of Israel’s influence on the world, but this year the number has gone up to 50%.
If Israel and Zionism were set initially to bring to the world a humanist civilised Jew, this poll results suggest that both Zionism and Israel failed completely. In spite of Israeli Hasbara, Jewish lobbying and the Jewish stronghold over the media, the people of the world, see the Jewish State negatively.
Some 50% percent of Americans that took part in the poll said they had a favorable view of Israel. Yet, with just half of the American people seeing Israel favourably, the blunt support of America’s political system of Israel is staggering and pretty revealing.
In Europe, Israel is losing popularity rapidly. Some 74% of Spanish respondents (an increase of 8% from last year) and 56% of French respondents (an increase of 9%), see Israel in a negative light. In spite of their guilt and the heavy pro Israeli indoctrination, 69% of German respondents see Israel negatively. And in Britain, despite the embarrassing fact that 80% of our Tory MPs are Conservative Friends of Israel, 68% of the Brits are not at all friendly towards the Jewish State.
In emerging economies, people also have some problems with Israel. According to the poll. 45% of Chinese participants, 58% of Brazilians and 29% of Indians have negative views of Israel, and the number of Israel sympathizers in these countries is markedly low.
The survey also found that in Russia, which last year stood out as a country where public opinion of Israel was positive, only 25% of Russian participants had positive views of Israel this year, compared to 26% who see Israel in a negative light. This is not very surprising bearing in mind that 7 out of 8 Russian oligarchs are Jews possessing with Israeli citizenship.
Israel may want to consider changing its path immediately. Rather than investing in Hasbara and extensive Jewish lobbying, it may want to open its eyes to the prospect of humanism and peace because it appears that humanity clearly shows some real signs of fatigue towards the ‘Jews only State’.
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