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Dear
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In
honor of Veterans Day last weekend, Under the Hood Cafe and Outreach Center
along with members of IVAW marched in the local parade outside of Fort Hood to
carry the message of veterans' and service members' Right to Heal.
In
this photo, IVAW member, Malachi Muncy, dramatizes the issue of reliance on
medication to treat soldiers and veterans suffering from various forms of
military trauma:
Malaichi
said, “It’s easy to remember the veterans coming home on planes and impossible
to forget those coming back in boxes. It’s those locked up at home with mounting
prescriptions, those falling into the judicial system, and those dying senseless
accidents that are being forgotten.”
For
more photos of this event, you can go to the Under the Hood Facebook page (and like
it!).
Under
the Hood and IVAW also used the parade to spread the word to active duty
soldiers about the Appeal for Redress, a project that makes it easy
for service members and veterans to reach out to members of Congress about the
lack of access to proper health treatment for PTSD, Military Sexual Trauma, and
Traumatic Brain Injury. If you are a veteran or service member, you can add your name to send a letter urging members of
Congress to take action around issues of proper health care in the military and
VA systems.
In
Solidarity,
Iraq
Veterans Against the War and the Afghanistan Veterans Against the War
Committee
P.S.
Please support the important work of Under the Hood Cafe and Outreach Center, a safe
haven outside of Fort Hood for soldiers and their families to get support and
alternative information about their rights.
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