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When Your Life Hangs in the Balance
 David Lord
After thirteen days of being held captive by radical Palestine Muslims in Gaza, Fox News reporter Steve Centanni recovered from his ordeal in Puerto Vallarta. In other news, if you are a veteran or survivor of a deceased veteran who suffered from Vietnam service-connected Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, you may be eligible for retroactive benefits.more »»»
VA Updates and Adventures
 David Lord
This week's article contains updates on some of my previous editorials. First, you should know that even though “Blue Water” Veterans have temporarily regained benefits, the VA may challenge this reversal of policy. Then, I'll tell you about the adventures the local Veteran and I had on our emergency trip from Vallarta to the Houston VA.more »»»
Emergency Trip Successful
 David Lord
Last week I made an emergency trip from Puerto Vallarta to the Houston VA, using the Veterans Service Vehicle to get a seriously ill, (but ambulatory) veteran to the medical care he needed.more »»»
Blue Water Vets Covered for Agent Orange Exposure
 David Lord
For years, the VA has denied "blue water" Vietnam vets presumptive service connection of AO-related diseases on the grounds that they did not actually serve "in" Vietnam. On August 16, CAVC determined that the VA's interpretation of the law was in error.more »»»
Vets May Qualify for Extra Medical Benefits
 David Lord
Veterans with medical problems may qualify for additional benefits. The US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has recently released a decision concerning a special monthly pension based on permanent housebound status. However, the VA may be reluctant to order an examination if it appears that he/she does not have an obviously total disability.more »»»
Trauma of War vs. Crimes of War
 David Lord
Your thoughts on the Middle East War are as varied from each other as the backgrounds from which we come. For Veterans, these thoughts will be mostly remembered in the reflective light of our service in the Armed Forces, because we are at war.more »»»
Viet Nam Vets High Risks for Parkinson's
 David Lord
A study by Harvard scientists finds that people who reported being exposed to pesticides before 1982 had a 70% higher incidence of Parkinson's disease developing 10 to 20 years later than those who weren't exposed.more »»»
The Rush to Judgments
 David Lord
Since I have been out of Puerto Vallarta, vacationing far and wide across Mexico and the US over the last six weeks, I have a lot to write about and look forward to sharing my opinion about the breaking events that effect US Veterans living abroad.more »»»
Outside Looking In
 David Lord
We all have points of view, and since returning from Viet Nam in 1968, mine, like so many other veterans', is outside looking in. It really is easier for me to be here in Vallarta, where people give me what I could not have in America - a community based on your contribution - not your past.more »»»
Memorial Day Reflections
 David Lord
This Memorial Day, as I watched the President laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on my TV here in Puerto Vallarta, my heart cried for all those killed in action or lost in war, and I vowed to remember and honor their sacrifice by increasing my effort to educate Veterans on their benefits and veterans' rights.more »»»
A Statement from the Department of Veterans Affairs
 David Lord
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has recently learned that an employee, a data analyst, took home electronic data from VA, which he was not authorized to do. US Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the VA Inspector General's office, have launched a full-scale investigation into this matter.more »»»
Important Veterans Review
 David Lord
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced a special outreach campaign to inform veterans about VA's disability compensation program. VA emphasized that all veterans with the same degree of disability should receive the same amount of VA compensation, regardless of where they live.more »»»
A Young Marine
 David Lord
When speaking to a young Marine in recovery at the Army's Burn Center in Texas, I thought to myself "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Jesus said that on the cross. I say it to President Bush and Vice President Cheney for sending our soldiers into Iraq.more »»»
One of the Costliest Military Engagements in US History
 David Lord
If Congress passes the emergency spending request that's before the Senate, the cost of military operations since the 9-11 terrorist attacks will top $439 billion, with $320 billion of that for the Iraq war alone, according to a report this week by the Congressional Research Service.more »»»
U.S. Veterans Seeking a Better Life in Mexico
 David Lord
With the efforts of a Nation wasted, the pride of a Nation tested, life getting harder, and rewards fewer - it's no wonder so many US Veterans are seeking to replace the broken promise of peace and prosperity in the US with a better life in Mexico.more »»»
US Plan for Flu Pandemic Revealed
 David Lord
US Plan for Flu Pandemic Revealed - and it does not include Americans residing outside of the US. Administration scientists are weighing data that may alter their strategy on who should have priority for antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu and Relenza.more »»»
VA Retroactive Benefits
 David Lord
The VA sometimes awards large amounts of retroactive benefits because a claim that should have been adjudicated was ignored. When the VA finally adjudicates the claim that was ignored, it generally awards benefits effective the date that the VA should have first recognized that the claim was raised.more »»»
The Trip Home
 David Lord
The trip home from the Annual National Veterans Service Training was an education, seeing the neglect that Homeland Securities F.E.M.A. have left behind. It is beyond depressing for those living there, and a disaster that I have only seen in war.more »»»
N.S.O. Training in Nashville
 David Lord
I left Puerto Vallarta on Wednesday and arrived here in Nashville three days and 3500 kilometers later. I had time to have a glass of wine at B.B. King's Saloon as my personal salute to the great musician and then headed to the Local Holiday Express.more »»»
Agent Orange
 David Lord
The U.S. Veterans that have served in Vietnam have always had to contend with the hidden effects of Agent Orange, a medical nightmare. It is said that they died in Vietnam... they just didn't know it.more »»»
Real Effects of War After a Tour of Duty in Iraq
 David Lord
The double standard of the Administration is alive and well. Veterans are expendable once they have served and return home with health issues. Our elected officials should have to send their own children to war and then see if we have mandatory funding for healthcare at the VA. more »»»
One Hundred Forty Years Later and Counting
 David Lord
Congressman Lane Evans of Illinois and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley of Nevada recently introduced a bill that would permit veterans to hire an attorney when they disagree with a benefits claims decision of the Department of Veterans Affairs.more »»»
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