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...Americans are outraged at the conditions and the practices at Walter Reed and many of the VA hospitals nationwide. What policies would you establish to ensure that our wounded veterans receive the best medical and rehabilitation services through the Veterans Administration for the balance of their lifetimes? -William G. Eustis from East Greenwich...
...mold and decrepitude at Walter Reed are likely to be only the beginning of the tragedy, the latest example of incompetence in this Administration. "This is yet another aspect of war planning that wasn't done properly," says Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "The entire VA hospital system is unprepared for the casualties of Iraq, especially the psychiatric casualties. A lot of vets are saying, 'This is our Katrina moment.' And they're right: this Administration governs badly because it doesn't care very much about governing...
April Woods, ROANOKE, VA...
...year-old daughter says she wants to be an actress. What advice would you give her? Linda Richardson SPRINGFIELD, VA...
...Then during the evangelical renaissance of the 1990s, a theologically conservative North Carolina group called the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools compiled an outline for Bible courses. The curriculums reached the attention of Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, based in Arlington, Va., who favored teaching about religion in school but didn't think what he was looking at passed constitutional muster. He composed a document, The Bible and Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide, that accomplished two crucial things: it provided bright-line standards on what the law allowed and collected endorsements...