“They (researchers) did some biopsies on their lungs, and what they found out was, the issues have to do with toxins in their lungs from those burn pits while they were deployed,”
VA Report On Veteran Suicides Shows Mixed Trends, Busy Prevention Efforts
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Overall, annual suicides increased by 43.6 percent between 2005 and 2017. Among veterans, that increase was 6.1 percent.
77 Years After Dying In A POW Camp, Lt. Crotty Returns Home
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The remains of Coast Guard Lieutenant Thomas James Eugene Crotty, known by friends and loved ones as “Jimmy,” were returned Friday in a solemn ceremony at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
New York Officials React To Death Of ISIS Founder
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“Despite this great victory, we must not confuse the death of this evil man with the total defeat of ISIS.”
New York Lawmakers Push To Provide Free Dental Care For Veterans
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“They whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we in a less final, less heroic way be willing to give of ourselves,”
App NEWS
Ithaca Pacifist, Six Others Convicted On Charges Stemming From Anti-War Protest
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“We have choices about what we consent to and what we don’t consent to. That’s a nonviolent practice of withdrawing consent.”
Reed Supports President’s Decision To Pull Troops From Syria
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Reed described those who voted against the president as showing a “political cowardice” that was “appalling.”
Veterans Cemetery Project Completion Pushed Back Years
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The next phase of the project is now rescheduled to start 2022, and some elements of the cemetery will not be finished for several more years.
Government
Gillibrand Visits Military Installations In New York
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This week, one of her stops took her to Rome Lab and the Defense Finance and Accounting Services office at the Griffiss Business Park.
Afraid For Her Life, A Pakistani Activist Vanishes … And Escapes To New York
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Gulalai Ismail spoke out against sexual assaults committed by Pakistani security forces. She was detained and threatened. Then she disappeared — until last week.