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VA clinic panned, praised at forum

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After prodding from his family, Ron Moser went to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fort Wayne because he was having "nightmares from hell." The Vietnam War veteran said he was given medication for flashbacks, told he was mentally ill and threatened with a 72-hour stay for observation.

Vets speak out on VA Hospital

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Congressman Marlin Stutzman (IN-03) and the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Jeff Miller (FL-01) held a veterans’ affairs forum in Fort Wayne Tuesday. Dozens of area vets showed up with concerns ranging from unemployment to mental health.

Congressmen confident VA cemetery errors fixed

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Dayton National Cemetery has more safeguards in place to ensure veterans and their family members are buried in the right grave sites since two people buried in the 1980s were interred in the unmarked graves of two Civil War veterans, two congressman said.

Congressmen confident VA cemetery errors fixed

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Dayton National Cemetery has more safeguards in place to ensure veterans and their family members are buried in the right grave sites since two people buried in the 1980s were interred in the unmarked graves of two Civil War veterans, two congressman said.

Miller: New health rule may hurt homeless vets

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Republican Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida is concerned a new federal rule requiring employers to make free contraceptive services available to female workers could jeopardize efforts to help homeless veterans. So what does birth control have to do with homeless vets? Potentially quite a bit, according to Miller.

Lawmakers question whether sequestration cuts would hit veterans

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Veterans programs would see a significant boost under the budget proposal laid out by the White House this week, but lawmakers were more concerned Wednesday about whether the looming threat of automatic defense funding cuts could undo those positive numbers.

VA Confronts Growing PTSD Problem

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As veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war return home, a significant number of them suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It’s not a new mental illness. Although not formally recognized until 1980, it’s been recognized through the centuries that the stresses of combat could produce long-lasting psychological effects. Earlier, PTSD was described in various ways such as shell shock, battle fatigue, and accident neurosis.

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