Among groups who oppose John McCain, the most serious charges come from a small but fervent cadre of Vietnam POW/MIA activists who accuse him of being a collaborator during his time in the Vietnamese POW camps.
Activists accused McCain of stonewalling the release of POW records because they contained evidence he had collaborated with the North […]
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Campaign 2008 |
CREDO Action from Working Assets and Veterans For Peace have teamed up again this year to provide phone cards to veterans recuperating in V.A. hospitals so they can call their families during the holiday season. Last year they raised more than $90,000, which, thanks to a sweetheart 2.9-cents-per-minute deal with Sprint, was enough to ship […]
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An investigation by CBS News has uncovered an epidemic in suicides among U.S. military veterans — 120 per week in 2005:
One study found that 120 veterans per week have committed suicide. Another found that veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general […]
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