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There is an alarming trend in denial of Gulf War Illness related claims by the Veteran Administration. Eighty percent of Golf War Illness claims have been denied a service related connection. From Vietnam to Persian Gulf veterans face the same challenge to gain benefits from the suffering of an undiagnosed illness. Why is our government letting down our veterans, when they should be treated with more respect?

The documents were leaked into the hands of reporters and, after a fight in court, were published and released to the American public. The once highly classified information revealed how American presidents did a lot of things against popular advisory of the intelligence agencies, and basically dragged this country through a lot of problems we didn't really need to face

In 1965 Students where suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam war. After a 4 year battle the Supreme Court decision Tinker v. Des Moines ruled that students do not shed their constitutional rights at the school gate. Thirty years later (article published 1999) we are still fighting for our students rights with uniforms at school.