Saturday, November 17, 2012

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Dear ,
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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