The analyses were cross-sectional. Participants (n = 4256) were drawn from the Vietnam Experience Study. From military service files, telephone interviews, and a medical examination, occupational, socio-demographic, and health data were collected. One-year prevalence of MDD and GAD was determined with DSM-III criteria. Metabolic syndrome was ascertained from data on: body mass index, fasting blood glucose or a diagnosis of diabetes, blood pressure, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride levels ...

for Prostate Cancer December 7 2011 Vietnam Veterans of America to Hold Agent Orange Town Hall November 5th at Penn State Beaver Campus November 4 2011 Vietnam Veterans of America Joins Over 200 Organizations in Urging Congress to Reject Changes to Medicare Part D Program November 3 2011 Vietnam Veterans of America Board of Directors Approves VetProWeb for VVA s Service Officer Program August 29 2011 Fred Elliott to Serve As National Vice President of Vietnam Veterans of America August 23 2011 Dr Wayne Reynolds to Serve As National Treasurer of Vietnam Veterans of America August 23 2011 John Rowan to Serve Fourth Term As National President of Vietnam Veterans of America August 22 2011 VVA Praises Historic Settlement For Veterans Discharged with PTSD August 3 2011 Philanthropist Kenneth Fisher to Receive Award at the Vietnam Veterans of America 15th National Convention August 10 2011 Union Leader Cecil Roberts to Receive Award at the Vietnam Veterans of America 15th National Convention August 8 ...

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We are a Non Profit 501C Veterans Group, if you would like to help us with our continued work on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Ellis Square please send your tax deductible check to Beverly Vietnam Veterans to our PO Box 661, Beverly, Ma. 01915.. Also if you are a Veteran and served in the following wars or peacetime here is the illegibility to join the Vietnam Veterans Group and VFW( YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A VIETNAM VETERAN) You can also join the Fortunate VfW Post 544 if you served overseas/. Korea served 90 ...

BACKGROUND: Immunoglobulins (Ig) are essential for combating infectious disease. However, high levels are associated with a range of diseases and/or poor health behaviours, such as autoimmune diseases, chronic infection, HIV and excessive alcohol consumption. In the present analyses, we extend this body of work by examining whether higher levels of serum Ig G, A and M are associated with increased mortality risk.. METHODS: Participants were 4255 Vietnam-era, former US army personnel (the Vietnam Experience Study). From military service files, telephone interviews in 1983 and a medical examination in 1986, sociodemographic, and health data were collected. Contemporary morning fasted blood samples were taken from which IgG, IgA and IgM concentrations were determined. Mortality surveillance over 15 years gave rise to deaths ascribed to all-causes, cardiovascular disease mortality, all cancers combined mortality, external cause and other causes (predominantly comprising deaths due to infectious ...

What is the Vietnam Veterans Sons & Daughters Support Programme? The Vietnam Veterans Sons & Daughters Support Programme (VVSDSP) assists eligible children of Vietnam Veterans who have one of the following conditions: spina bifida manifesta cleft lip cleft palate adrenal gland cancer acute myeloid leukaemia The VVSDSP provides financial assistance with out-of-pocket expenses for medical treatment for these conditions.

The third Vietnam Veterans mortality study and cancer incidence in Vietnam Veterans study* page on the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare website

Addiction and alcoholism among Vietnam veterans has traditionally been very high since the conflict ended in 1975. War is extremely traumatic and often causes soldiers to develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD - a condition that frequently co-occurs with addiction or alcoholism. But while any war can cause a soldier or sailor to turn to drugs or alcohol in order to self-medicate their pain and stress, Vietnam veterans were subject to a hostile return when the war was over. Instead of being treated like heroes as their fathers were after World War II, Vietnam veterans were shunned, ridiculed and expelled from their customary peer groups. Additionally, these veterans found it difficult to reintegrate into a workforce that largely had no use for their military skills. Consequently, many of Americas most courageous veterans became disillusioned addicts and alcoholics with few opportunities to better their lives.. PTSD is widely considered the most common cause of addiction or alcoholism ...

A whole new twist on the meaning of Political Science: If you are a Vietnam War veteran and have a child with a recognized birth defect your child may be eligible for certain VA benefits. But if and only if you are a Woman Vietnam Veteran. Under the Clinton administration, the Veterans Administration recognized spina…

The overall long-term goal of this project is to prevent AD, which affects almost 50% of the US population over 85 years of age, and is the most common cause of dementia. Clinical signs and symptoms of AD include cognitive impairments, especially memory and emotional disturbances. In order to accomplish this goal of prevention, a population at risk must be identified. Evidence suggests that both TBI and PTSD increase risk for cognitive decline, AD, and dementia.. TBI and PTSD are common problems resulting from military service. Thus far, there have been no prospective studies using imaging and biomarkers, which directly measure changes in the brain and AD pathology to study the effects of TBI and PTSD. This proposed study will provide novel data to test these hypotheses. The results will have major implications for identifying, subjects at increased risk for AD, a possible need for early detection of AD in military Veterans with histories of TBI and PTSD, and a possible need to employ prevention ...

It took Walt Brinker a while to unwind upon returning home after being wounded during combat in Vietnam. The retired Army lieutenant colonel talked about his experiences adjusting to civilian life as the guest speaker for the Hope Mills Heroes Homecoming Ceremony on Sunday afternoon.

Pete Lopez, a 74-year-old Vietnam war veteran tragically died after he was refused Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19. A Vietnam War Veteran has died after a hospital in Texas refused, in defiance of a court order, to give him Ivermectin for Covid-19 infection. Pete Lopez, 74, was put on a ventilator by medical staff…

Curtis Tarr, who oversaw the lottery for the draft during the Vietnam War as head of the Selective Service program, has died.. Tarr died of pneumonia on Friday at his home in Walnut Creek, CA. He was 88.. President Richard Nixon appointed Tarr as director of the Selective Service System in 1970. The nation had held its first lottery drawing for the draft in December 1969, and Tarr was responsible for implementing the changes, said Dick Flahavan, spokesman for the Selective Service. Before the lottery, local draft boards had control over who was called and who was not.. The lottery system took the local personalities out of the system, Flahavan said, adding that it was much fairer, much more objective, more efficient.. Read more at militarytimes.com.. ...

All cause mortality was significantly reduced by 15% in this group, with a lesser and non-significant deficit in all cancer deaths and no decrease in all cancer incidence. Specific cancer sites demonstrated an increase in risk, with twice the risk of mortality from head and neck cancers. There was also a twofold and significantly increased incidence of CLL. Other lymphohaematopoietic disorders, specifically multiple myeloma and Hodgkin disease, showed non-significant mortality excesses, reflected by a similar increase in incidence.. One of the strengths of the study was that the New Zealand forces served with the Australian Army in one geographical area, in contrast to USA cohorts which proved more difficult to enumerate and locate geographically.3 A further strength was the excellent follow-up in terms of the 84% of the cohort that we are able to trace, which would tend to minimise bias (in the direction of underestimating disease risks) in the results. We did have weaknesses in that we were ...

Unable to work on real cars, Vietnam veteran Larry Bradley rediscovered a passion from his childhood - working on models. The walls of the workshop are lined with hundreds of model cars Bradley has painstakingly constructed and painted over the years.

Vietnam Veterans of America Inc is a national Non- Profit Corporation founded in 1978 in the United States that is committed to serving the needs of all Veterans. Local chapter meets here the 2nd Tuesday of Every Month. All are invited.

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Tuesday, February 4, 1969 My work on Hill 65 was done. I mailed my last letter to Jenny before the Admin run left. She had written me a letter regarding my reference to taking a cab from MCAS El Toro to Laguna Beach. Jenny was excited and wanted to pick me up in person. It…

JOSE CELSO DE JESUS-COLON is honored on Panel 49W, Row 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. JOSE CELSO DE JESUS-COLON is from FREEHOLD, NJ and served as a PFC in the ARMY.

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Apparently more people prefer undocumented caravans of people than taking care of our vets. As a vet myself, I see it more clearly than the...

Judging from the hoopla and hype in the media, from CNN to the NY Times, the decision by retired four-star general Wesley Clark to throw his hat into the ring as a Democratic Party presidential contender is something akin to the second coming. Hes a genuine hero, were told, and Americans, particularly in key states like Texas and the Southeast, will go for his military background.. What is this passion for generals as leaders, anyhow? There was the same kind of fawning adoration being expressed about John McCain during the Republican primaries last time around. (In fact, it was in a pathetic effort to capture some of that adoration that George Bush, the National Guard deserter and scofflaw, donned his now infamous flight suit and did an orchestrated and carefully staged landing on an aircraft carrier flight deck.). What, its fair to ask though, does Sen. John McCains Vietnam-era bomber flying and POW experience, or Sen. John Kerrys Vietnam-era river patrol boat captaining experience, offer ...

Caregivers in the HI-FIVES group will receive individual calls with a nurse educator to address topics he/she identified as being the highest priority learning areas. After the phone calls, caregivers will participate in evidence-based group sessions aimed to improve clinical care skills, psychological care skills, and support-seeking skills. The curriculum will be delivered by a trained nurse educator on the research team and the PI and VA Caregiver Support Staff. Three individual telephone training calls will be tailored to the individual needs of Veteran-caregiver dyad. Four group training sessions will be targeted to address common needs of Veterans and their caregivers. Given that all Veteran care recipients will have at least 2 or 3 activities of daily living (ADL) limitations. After the final group session, there will be two optional booster calls at one and three months. Four assessments in all will be collected, baseline (in person), and at 3, 9, and 15 months (by phone ...

Advice for students considering studying abroad?. Travel with an open mind and perspective. Its very likely that you will encounter cultures, customs and norms quite different from yours; instead of trying to resist them embrace them while staying true to your own values and character.. Studying in Canada has been a great experience for me. It wasnt a big culture shock for me and I was pleasantly surprised by the degree of hospitality that was extended towards me. Academically UBC has consistently challenged me to gear up my skills, and pushing the envelope has seemed to be the key to success. Knowledge is without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest assets one can possess, so make like a sponge and absorb as much as you can. .. As an accomplished photographer, how did you benefit from your trip to Shanghai last summer?. The art of photography has always fascinated me. I remember getting my very own DSLR a few years ago, holding the camera and instantly realizing that I had a long road ...

My dad gave me his car a few years ago. It had a Vietnam War Veteran plate and since it was going to expire in a few months anyway I kept it. When it was time to renew the plate I explained to the DMV that I wanted a regular plate. A new one. They said I could only get one if the other had been lost or stolen. I told them it was rusty and I just wanted a new one. Again stating just a regular, non Vietnam Veteran plate. A few weeks later I received the new plate which was exactly like the one I replaced. I still have it because I figured if someone went to all the trouble to make another one why not use it? Sometimes the DMV folks are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.. ...

It has been painted as the first misstep by newly minted President Moon Jae-in. On Memorial Day, he praised Korean Vietnam War veterans for their service, noting that their sacrifices had earned generous payments from ally the United States. Those U.S. dollars granted Korea much of the seed capital required for its

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Located near the Lincoln Memorial at the west end of Constitution Gardens, the polished black granite wall is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 persons who gave their lives or remain missing in the Vietnam War.

Congress is poised to send Bush a record $447 billion Pentagon budget that anticipates defense spending next year will exceed annual expenditures at the height of the Vietnam War.

Our work in this stunning Asian country began in 2004 in partnership with the East Meets West Foundation. We begin our Vietnam experience in the southern city

Add in the fact that the NFL received millions of taxpayer dollars from the Department of Defense and the National Guard for patriotic displays, and it puts the entire Kaepernick hullabaloo in a different light. Fans should have confidence that their hometown heroes are being honored because of their honorable military service, not as a marketing ploy, Senator John McCain, the Vietnam War veteran and P.O.W., said in a statement last year coinciding with Tackling Paid Patriotism, a joint oversight report released by McCain and his fellow Arizona Republican Senator John Flake ...

In a speech before the U.S. Senate on March 27, 1986, Kerry accused President Ronald Reagan of leading the United States into another Vietnam in Central America, accusing the administration of Nixon-like duplicity and saying that he should recognize it because of his Vietnam experience. Kerry told his colleagues he was on Navy duty in Cambodia at a time when President Richard M. Nixon lied to the public and said that there were no U.S. forces in that country. He even took enemy fire. In his words, I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared - seared - in me ...

Since it opened 50 years ago, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic has been a refuge for everyone from flower children to famous rock stars to Vietnam War veterans returning home addicted to heroin.

A world and nearly a half a century away from the war zone where theyd counted on each other, Middaugh put himself on the line for Warner this month in a new way: by giving one of his kidneys.

Because they are spatial and visual, public memorials exist as walk-through texts, giving form to the nations preferred narratives of shared loss or defiant restoration. Or so one would expect with the most visited site in New York, the 9/11 Memorial Park created on the site of the original twin towers.. The park in the dense downtown area covers sixteen acres and consists of rows of Swamp White Oaks bridging two massive black cataracts 30-feet deep. These pools are the exact footprints of the two original towers that used to dominate the lower Manhattan skyline. Each wall in these open depressions is softened by waterfalls that descend in a rush to their sub-grade floors. The water then flows into another square opening at the center, dropping to a deeper level that cannot be seen by a viewer at the edge. The idea of total destruction is thus restated, bringing a visitor back to the awful moments when fire and gravity claimed these spaces.. The pools are framed at the top by waist-high ...

My work has always been about the environment, Maya Lin 81 ARC 89 noted in a lecture given at the Yale University Art Gallery on Oct. 7. Indeed, Lin, that most prodigious of alumni architects who famously designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while a senior at Yale, spent a large portion of the lecture evangelizing about the dangers of climate change. But the time Lin spent stepping off her soapbox and discussing the intersection of her art with its environment proved far more insightful.. While flipping through a PowerPoint displaying her recent work, it became clear that Lin has shifted her focus from architecture to art, mainly the sculptural. She has stepped away from the memorials and monuments that catalyzed her meteoric rise, though these still echo in many of her contemporary pieces.. The geometry blurring into abstraction of Lins Vietnam Veterans Memorial recurs throughout her recent oeuvre. Lines fascinate her, with thickness, curvature and course lending each line a distinctive ...

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This letter is prompted by your editorial California Remembers (Nov. 21), noting the dedication of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Dec. 10.I am a Vietnam veteran (U.S. Marine Corps,

Hi NN, I would check the blue waters site to see if your husbands ship was on the list of included ships.The last I heard on blue water vets was one republi...

BACKGROUND: There is an association between higher white blood cell counts and all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. However, little is known about the prognostic significance of circulating lymphocyte and lymphocyte subset numbers. AIMS: The present study examined the association between T-, CD4-, CD8- and B-cell numbers, and the CD4:CD8 ratio, and all-cause and CVD mortality. METHODS: Lymphocyte and lymphocyte subset numbers were measured by flow cytometry in a cohort of 4256 male middle-aged Vietnam-era US veterans. Mortality was tracked for 15 years and cause of death was determined from death certificates. RESULTS: In fully adjusted survival analyses, high circulating T-cells numbers were associated with increased risk of both all-cause [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.75, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.15-2.66] and cardiovascular (HR = 3.57, 95% CI 1.53-8.33) mortality. The former association appeared to reflect an effect for high CD8-cells numbers, the latter an effect for high ...

The lost man, Tappet, 57, an almost retired mechanic and Vietnam-era U.S. Army veteran who was recipient of the Good Conduct Medal, was the subject of a massive search led by DPMPAA personnel and members of his family. He and his wife, Fern, have nine children, most of whom are fully-grown and who branched out through the city in search of Tappets pickup. DPMPAA leader Clutch said four of them became temporarily lost themselves in the downtown maze ...

MCINTYRE: Well, Wolf, here the words youre not going to hear at the Pentagon this week. Youre not going to hear anyone say that this was a turning point. You certainly wont hear the Vietnam-era phrase, light at the end of the tunnel. But there is a very cautious optimism at the Pentagon, in part because of something we havent mentioned yet, which is the appointment of those two key cabinet ministries, interior and defense, but one thing that youve also, we havent paid much attention to is that very quietly Defense Secretary Rumsfeld signed an order this week going ahead with the deployment of another battalion of U.S. troops from Germany. Theyre just rotating one for one for the troops there, but thats a signal that theyre not ready to make any reductions in U.S. troops in Iraq any time in the short term. BLITZER: I guess Christiane, the key question now, is this new Iraqi government of national unity, including the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, are they going to be able, based on ...

In 1984, Patricia E. Kelly, a U.S. Marine Corp Vietnam-era veteran and African-America cowgirl, founded Ebony Horsewomen, Inc.(EHI). As challenging as the task may have seemed at the time, Patricia had a dream to level the playing field for inner-city youth to have access to the same opportunities, resources, equine-based programming and equine assisted therapy as their suburban counterparts. She knew that this would be life-altering and enriching for those who became involved.. Pushing forward through obstacles and challenges presented in the traditionally suburban and rural horse industry, EHI not only progressed, but broke barriers, stereotypes, and thrived to become the only organization of its kind in America.. To further the mission of using horses to heal and educate, EHI has become the regional leader in the provision of Equine Assisted Therapy and Psychotherapy, and is approved for NASW/CT Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for furthering the education of mental health professionals and ...

As far as the props used in the film go, I dont necessarily think one plane in particular is going to be the end-all find. While there are actually a lot of brand similarities between the equipment, ECU and Ecto-1/1A, some of it comes from completely different sources. Some of it being older than others too. We know the oxygen tanks and other pieces come straight out of WWII era military parts. Then theres Vietnam-era mil-spec, late 70s aerospace parts and even early 80s computer tech. The stuff comes from all over and in a place like that its all going to be in piles of junk unfortunately. I mean, I was just watching one of the JAWS (I think the 4th one?) films a few weeks ago. I found that the infamously hard-to-find skirted trap knob (thats also used on the ECU) can be sourced from a sonar device thats used on the boat in the film. From some company in Tujunga, CA. where they also filmed E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial. So who knows where this stuff really comes from? I think the best bet ...

The Foreign Miners Tax of 1850 was designed to force Mexican and Chinese miners off of their claims in California, but the miners fought back (including, legendarily, one Joaquin Murieta). Also: putting some numbers on Joan Baezs Vietnam-era tax resistance.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences study has shown that the impact of family trauma can be a heavy burden on the physical, mental and social health of students. According to Wired Differently Keynoter Mike Paget, there is a traceable connection linking various types of victimization, neglect and exposure to unsafe environments to the development of emotional and behavioral disorders including oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, anxiety and depression in students.. ...

Research in the Gregory Kirk Lab examines the natural history of viral infections - particularly HIV and hepatitis viruses - in the U.S. and globally. As part of the ALIVE (AIDS Linked to the Intravenous Experience) study, our research looks at a range of pathogenetic, clinical behavioral issues, with a special focus on non-AIDS-related outcomes of HIV, including cancer and liver and lung diseases. We use imaging and clinical, genetic, epigenetic and proteomic methods to identify and learn more about people at greatest risk for clinically relevant outcomes from HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections. Our long-term goal is to translate our findings into targeted interventions that help reduce the disease burden of these infections.. Research Areas: global health, Hepatitis, Africa, AIDS, cancer, HIV, drugs, liver diseases ...

Monsters are created. As I look to Dahmers childhood, my heart aches for a young child that never had a chance. If we dont start to understand this, we will continue to fail children, we will continue to marginalize them and be astonished by horrible long-term outcomes. There are many lingering questions that both Dahmers own testimony raises, as well as that of his father who wrote a book called, A Fathers Story. My hope is that this brief assessment will support a more sophisticated inquiry into Dahmers early experiences, and turn our attention to the very real problem of early childhood abuse and neglect. If we genuinely seek to eradicate atrocities such as Sandy Hook from this world, we must be willing to understand its origins and not leave its mystery in the hands of the gods. The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study has recognized early adversity as the single most influential factor leading to illness, poor quality of life, and death. It is clear from the literature on the effects ...

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Hello! I am seeking information on Leonard J. Karp. Born in the 40s and was in the Army serving in the Vietnam conflict during the 60 & 70s. Maried to a Maria or Marie and has a son (Ronald) and a daughter in their 40s possibly may have lived in the Sacramento, CA area. I have additional information from a dog tag to compare notes. Please help ...

A highly decorated Vietnam Veteran and the supposed inspiration for Sylvester Stallones character in the original Rambo movie First Blood, Bo Gritz has dedicated himself for decades to denouncing the New World Order and training an army of anointed Eternal Warriors to battle against the evil that resides in high places.