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South Florida Vets - Sponsors
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Veteran's
E-News (October
2007) |
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UPDATE
ON VETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER’S
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
On Saturday September 8, 2007 we participated in
the “KICK DRUGS OUT OF DAVIE” Presented by “TEEN
CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL SOUTH FLORIDA
HEADQUARTERS” The event was held at Bergeron
Rodeo grounds. We had “Blue” our therapy horse
on hand for the teens to visit with. The turn
out was great along with great food and many
non-profit organizations participating in the
event. Rick and Donna Fernandez, Program
Directors, have been serving in Broward County
since 1988... |
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Inhofe
Legislation Allows Veterans To Salute The Flag
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)
praised the passage by unanimous consent of his
bill (S.1877) clarifying U.S. law to allow
veterans and servicemen not in uniform to salute
the flag. Current law (US Code Title 4, Chapter
1) states that veterans and servicemen not in
uniform should place their hand over their heart
without clarifying whether they can or should
salute the flag. |
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Health professional
brings new strategy to helping veterans cope
Laroussini focuses on what therapies coax best
response from the brain
Bruce Brown
Jill Laroussini has volunteered at enough
homeless shelters to see what happens when
veterans don't get the support they need when
they come home from war. That's why she wants to
make life different for current veterans coming
back from Iraq and Afghanistan. "We've learned
so much from Vietnam veterans on the streets,"
said Laroussini, a registered nurse who teaches
at UL and has brought students to homeless
locations in Lafayette for some 14 years.
"They've taught me what works. |
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Sesame Street DVD for
Injured Veterans
By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
NEW YORK (AP) — It's not your typical Sesame
Street episode. There are no lessons in letters
or numbers, but there are plenty of hugs and
lots of talk about feelings. Sesame Workshop,
the nonprofit organization that produces the hit
kids' show, is working on a DVD that will be
distributed to military families. It's designed
to help injured veterans talk about their
disabilities with their children. |
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Good Connections:
Saddling up has extra benefits at Helping Hands
Francis Zigmund, who retired from the Air Force,
participated Friday in a free program developed
just for veterans at Helping Hands Therapeutic
Riding Center. In her therapeutic riding
business, Janellen Cappo does a lot of good.
Cappo is executive director of the Helping Hands
Therapeutic Riding Center, where good stuff goes
on all the time. At the Grain Valley center,
children with autism or cerebral palsy and
adults with multiple sclerosis benefit from the
rhythmic, repetitive motion of riding. The
physical and sensory input from the gentle
animals helps riders’ neurological functioning
and sensory processing, which applies to many
daily activities. Riders learn better balance,
improve their muscle tone and coordination, and
gain stamina. |
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Ten things you may not
have known about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial:
1) It is considered a memorial, not a monument.
Monuments commemorate the lives of people;
memorials provide closure to death and feature
commemoration as a way to honor the dead.
Monuments are beginnings (of praise, of eternal
admiration); memorials are ends.
2) One of the stipulations for the competition
seeking design plans for the Memorial required
that the design make no political statement
about the War. When Lin’s design was unveiled,
many of her critics refuted its legitimacy by
referring to the guidelines of the competition
and claiming her design was politically loaded
and derided the War. |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S.
Senator Richard Burr,
the lead Republican on the Senate Committee on
Veterans' Affairs, thanked members of the
Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission and
said he looks forward to fully reviewing their
500-plus page report, which was released today.
"We must always look to improve veteran’s
services and benefits. I take seriously the
recommendations of the commission members and
hope that Congress and the Department of
Veterans Affairs will use this report to help
guide meaningful, long-term policies to improve
the lives of veterans and their families," Burr
said. |
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Cadets polish up Veterans
Memorial in Stuart
The cadets of Victory Forge Military Academy in
Port St. Lucie turned out Thursday to spruce up
the granite Veterans Memorial in Memorial Park.
They planted new shrubbery, trimmed older
plants, repainted the concrete portions and
cleaned the brass.
The three-sided, granite monument, flanked by
smaller memorials, bears the insignia of the
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard,
and stands next to the Stuart Bandshell on East
Ocean Boulevard. It had been battered by the
hurricanes of 2004 and 2005. |
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Government faulted for
response to ill veterans
WASHINGTON -- Sixteen years after the Persian
Gulf War, more than 1 in 4 of those who fought
remain seriously ill with medical problems
ranging from severe fatigue and joint pain to
Lou Gehrig's disease, multiple sclerosis and
brain cancer, the chairman of a congressional
advisory committee testified Tuesday. But even
as more is learned about what's now called Gulf
War Veterans Illness, the Defense Department and
the Department of Veterans Affairs remain in
virtual denial about its causes and have been
slow to offer treatment, said James Binns, the
head of a research advisory committee. "This is
a tragic record of failure, and the time lost
can never be regained," Binns told the Senate
Veterans' Affairs Committee.
"This government manipulation of science and
violation of law to devalue the health problems
of ill veterans is something I would not have
believed possible in this country until I took
this job." |
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Native American veterans
seen at risk. Region lags in efforts to help
stress-afflicted
Mental health workers are looking for new ways
to help Native American service members
returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are
suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In some parts of the United States, specialists
are combining modern treatments with traditional
healing methods, employing medicine men,
participating in sweat lodges, and asking tribal
elders to encourage veterans to seek
professional medical help. |
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Film tells the invisible
stories of women in war
Women are serving in record numbers in the Iraq
war, but the public seldom sees their faces or
hears their stories. Women and the issues they
face as a consequence of deployment tend to be
invisible, said Moni Law, civil rights lawyer
turned film producer, who would watch news of
the war and ask herself, "What about the women?"
Of those serving in the military today, one in
seven are women, she said. |
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