When my son John Toombs took his life at the Alvin C York Va, in November 2016, he was currently on 6 different medications that had the warning of possible suicidal side effects. When he first started these medications 2 months prior, he complained about the “pink fog”, that left …
For My Miami VA Psychotherapist The crowning achievement of my life was to kill 3000 of my country’s enemy in the Vietnam War as a bombardier in the B-52 Stratofortress. That was the achievement for which my birth and all my life’s accumulation of energy. discipline and education was intended. …
Kansas City Judge Finds VA’s Negligence Led To Iraq Veteran’s Suicide By DAN MARGOLIES • MAR 7, 2018 Corporal William Draughon in his Marine Corps Blue Dress uniform. DONALD AND LAURIE DRAUGHON After a seven-month deployment in 2004 in Iraq as a squad leader and gunner, Cpl. William P. Draughon received a citation …
I am the widow of a United States marine who honorably served his country for eight years until his body gave way. At the time of his suicide, he had to wear leg braces to support his ankles after three ankle surgeries. We were married in 2013. After a deployment, …
Dallas VA failed vet by sending him home with infected, baseball-size sores days before death, daughter says in lawsuit Kevin Krause, Federal Courts Reporter Connect with Kevin Krause On Twitter Email A Tarrant County woman on Tuesday sued the government in federal court, saying the Dallas VA Medical Center released her very …
Marine’s struggle includes potentially deadly prescription cocktail By James LaPorta – Localdesk@JDNews,com Posted Jan 3, 2016 at 10:00 AM Updated Jan 4, 2016 at 2:55 PM Bobbie Bee can no longer contain her outrage after her husband was prescribed a drug that if taken in conjunction with his current cocktail of medications potentially could have raised his serotonin levels to …
Military toxins are becoming more harmful to our veterans Imagine surviving two deployments in Iraq, constantly dodging bombs and enemy gunfire, only to realize that the air you were once thankful to be able to breathe was making you sick. This is what happened to Sergeant Major Rob Bowman, who …
Man you don’t even know this will probably not be the easiest video I’ve made but being that Janine Lutz herself asked me to make it I’m definitely gonna make it. Cuz she’s the mother of America’s battalion and I think that’s pretty damn important. Unfortunately the topic the subject …
VA won’t pay for feeding tube liquid for Army’s ‘most wounded commander in history’ Army Maj. Dennis “DJ” Skelton says the VA won’t pay for his feeding tube liquid. BY PETER REID · NOVEMBER 27, 2017 Army Capt. D.J. Skelton, commander of Company E, 229th Military Intelligence Battalion, stands in front of his …
By any modern standard, Jon Downing was a war hero, but sitting across from his doctor in that hospital room, trapped on all sides by sterile, white walls, he felt defeated. His doctor asked him to explain why he was there, but Jon struggled to find the right words. According …
