Veterans for America has important news for all veterans and active-duty military personnel--if you are or know one, please help spread the word

Here at DWT it has been a persistent sore point that a certain regime pays lip service to "supporting the troops" while providing less real support for both active-duty military personnel and veterans than any administration in U.S. history. So we're pleased to help spread the word from Veterans for America that they've published a much-needed sequel to The Viet Vet Survival Guide, and it's available now for download free on the VFA website.

Please help get the news to everyone who can benefit from it:

Introducing The American Veterans And Servicemembers Survival Guide

We are very pleased to announce the release of our new book, The American Veterans and Servicemembers Survival Guide. This new book, released twenty-two years after the breakthrough The Viet Vet Survival Guide.

Like the original book, this new publication will be instrumental in helping getting our veterans, especially those young veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the help they so very much need and deserve. Unlike the original, this new survival guide will also assist current servicemembers with some of the problems they face getting the care they need.

There are a couple of tremendous advantages to publishing this book online. The first is that you can literally just click here [there's a link on the website, of course] and download the entire book for free. We hope you will read it, use it and forward it to anyone who needs it.

The second is that as we improve the book, add chapters, make revisions and change any information as we need to, we will do so in real time and make all the updates available instantly.

We will be publicizing and making this book free to all. If you can contribute to our efforts to make this guide known and available to all veterans and current servicemembers, we would very much appreciate your help.

Here is some of the additional information provided on the download page:

The VA and the military do a great deal for veterans and servicemembers, and they are doing a better job than they once did (especially in medical care), but they also frequently are ineffective, incompetent, or unfair. This book will help the reader to help himself or herself when the military and the VA don’t do what they should.

When complete, there will be approximately 28 chapters. Topics include the military, the Department of Veterans Affairs, disability compensation, pensions, medical care, educational benefits, housing benefits, claims and appeals, discharge upgrading, the criminal justice system, employment, reemployment rights, benefits for family members, and special problems of women servicemembers and veterans.

The new book will be for veterans of all eras, very much including everybody from World War II to Vietnam and beyond. But it will give special emphasis to veterans and servicemembers of Iraq and Afghanistan.

There are many advantages to online publishing. The book will be available to servicemembers and veterans without charge although if you wish to make a donation to help defray the cost of writing and publicizing the book, that would be greatly appreciated - please check here to do so.

Chapters will be updated when a need occurs, without waiting years for a second or third full printed edition to be published. It will be published one or several chapters at a time, as these portions of the book are completed.

Here again are:

* the link for downloading the guide (where you can also click to download The Veterans Self-help Guide on VA Claims, The Self-Help Guide for Veterans of the Gulf War, and Self-help Guide on Agent Orange)

* the link for contributing

Checks are welcome too--made out to Veterans for America and mailed to:

Veterans for America
1025 Vermont Ave, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20005


JUST SO THERE'S NO QUESTION--

Nothing that isn't directly quoted from VFA represents their views.

As I thought would be blindingly obvious, all opinions regarding the murdering sociopaths who sent our men and women off to kill and maim and themselves be killed and maimed, and at the same time have provided such criminally inadequate support of every kind both for our fighting forces and for the returnees--those opinions are all my own.

At least until we can get their war-crimes trials going.--Ken

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