Make Sure Funding For First Is A Go!! On Second Tell Them NO FRIGGIN WAY, Restore Funding and Add More! It’s Overdue for this countries citizens to Start Actually ‘Sacrificing’ while Our Military fights this senseless Conflict!!
I’m short on time tonight, other actions calling, so this will be short with just snippets of the Reports/Articles.
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Than take Action with your Reps to Make Sure Funding Is Actual and Not Political Play in an Election year, as to the PTSD Research, and get Restoration of funding, and more, for the Prosthetic Research!
Canandaigua VA To Research PTSD
Kyle Clark (Rochester/Canandaigua, NY) — The federal government is giving the Canandaigua VA new missions, including research on the most effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
In addition, doctors there will find new ways to deliver mental health care to vets in rural areas.
A local veteran living with PTSD hopes new treatments will mean happier homecomings for soldiers who are currently serving.
Thom Harris “When I get ready to lie down in my bed, I know whether or not it’s one of those nights,” he said.
Still, Harris is a success story. Regular therapy helps keep his PTSD in check.
He wonders what’s on the minds of the men and women returning from war today.“It worries me. I say that loud and clear, it worries me. They’ve got the mark of war on them, as we say,” Harris said.
Harris and others have found peace and quiet at the Canandaigua VA.
“Because of some of the things we went through as Vietnam veterans, hopefully we blazed a trail for some of the guys coming back from the war,” he said.
The new uses for the Canandaigua V.A. fulfill its role as a newly-named “National Center of Excellence in the Department of Veterans Affairs.”
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Budget cuts area that helps fund Durham VA rehab
By Gerry Smith, Herald-Sun Washington bureau
April 6, 2006 10:05 pmWASHINGTON — Rep. David Price, D-4th District, accused the Bush administration on Thursday of trying to delay medical and prosthetic research for veterans in its 2007 budget proposal by cutting funding that helps pay for a Durham rehabilitation center.
The proposed funding cuts for research could affect the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center at the Durham VA Medical Center. Harold Kudler, the center’s co-director, said he did not want to speculate about what possible cuts might mean, but acknowledged that the center relies entirely on federal funding and hoped it would continue.
The center, which opened last year and has been receiving $2.8 million a year in federal funding, focuses on treating and assessing the “post-deployment mental health” of soldiers returning from war.
Experts in the field say a growing number of returning soldiers are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Louis Washington, director of Durham County Veterans Services, said he has seen more veterans, including some who served in the Vietnam War, filing claims for PTSD in the last few years. But Washington said being discharged from the military for PTSD is difficult because the Department of Defense views the disorder as “a way for soldiers to get out” of serving.
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“Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another.”
