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Monday, May 28th, 2012

Posts Tagged Veterans Administration

Lamborn opposes changing combat rule designed to help vets with PTSD

By | 03.25.09 | 5:00 pm

Veterans groups fighting to update the definition of combat to ease hurdles for service personnel to tap into health care benefits found an unlikely opponent in U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn. The Colorado Springs Republican’s district includes five military bases — including Fort Carson, which has suffered a rash of murders and suicides attributed to untreated stress and brain disorders.

Shinseki: Long-awaited VA hospital will open at Fitzsimons in 2013

By | 03.18.09 | 10:24 am

After a decade of delays and budget shortfalls, Colorado will finally get the brand-new, stand-alone VA hospital veterans organizations have wanted, U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki announced Wednesday morning. Construction will begin this spring on a 200-bed medical center set to open in the summer of 2013 on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Shinseki said.

Symbols Of A Soldier’s Faith

By | 05.18.07 | 9:13 am

After a decade of battle over the issue, Wiccan soldiers will be allowed to have their gravestones and memorials marked with the symbol of their faith – the pentacle – when they are buried in veterans’ cemeteries around the…