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...learned a lot about America's pretense. "Oh the troops, the troops, the brave troops, the precious troops, the courageous troops!" We deify these troops. And then when they come home, the VA doesn't call them back. That's just one of the great pretenses. Another is, "Democracy, democracy, you have to have democracy!" Hell, less than half of us vote. Until last week, that...
...what ails the VA is similar to what troubles health care in America today. Too many pills thrown at too many soldiers. They're often just palliatives. Spoons full of sugar that aren't really advancing the recovery of the soldier. Paraplegics, especially, aren't getting the finely tuned physical therapy they need. This is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Physical therapy involves a real-life person being with you for at least a half hour, pushing and pulling, getting the arms up in the air, doing everything that the paraplegic cannot...
Look, there are a lot of hard-working people at VA hospitals, but we cannot turn our backs to the reality that the system is broken. It's totally ill prepared to accept the kind of volume that has come to them as a result of these occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Captain Chris Clayton and sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans finished off the fall season last weekend at the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in Charlottesville, Va. The two formed a doubles team, and Clayton also competed in the singles draw after wins in both at the ITA Northeast Regionals Oct. 21. Harvard was one of only eight schools to have entrants in both the men’s singles and men’s doubles competitions, which featured the top 16 players in the nation in each bracket. “You really aren’t going to play anyone...
...future of the economy and politics is as uncertain as it is these days, it's refreshing to get Newkirk's reminder that the important thing in life is to do good, help others and be kind to all animals - not just the cute ones. Anna West, Richmond, Va...