Stars and Stripes: Jon Moldovan (Deryk Schlessinger) /Homelessness affecting veterans
jc
affecting veterans
A wounded soldier from his hospital bed: Sgt. Jon Moldovan quote
http://www.army.mil/-quotes/2007/12/12/6536-sgt-jon-moldovan-quote/
Sgt. Jon Moldovan, reciting the oath of re-enlistment with Brig. Gen.
Rodney Anderson (to left, not shown). Sgt. Moldovan, 508th Infantry
Regiment, re-enlisted one day after he was wounded while helping his
comrades wrest control of Musa Qala, Helmand Province, Afghanistan,
from the Taliban.
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of
the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...
Dec 12, 2007
BY Sgt. Jon Moldovan
[]
Also Stars and Stripes featured interview with Deryk Schlessinger's
best bro and 2006 fiancé brother, Jon Moldovan...
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0612/gallery.ireport.salute.troops/content.2.4.html
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/31/military-investigation-dr-lauras-son-complete/
http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/05/keyt.html
Musa Qal'eh 'Fortress of Moses'
Stars and Stripes forever: Sgt. Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville,
S.C.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=58353&archive=true
"I woke up to complete chaos ... and a stinging sensation," said Sgt.
Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville, S.C.
Moldovan had a severe cut in his leg from flying shrapnel. [thanks
Laura Schlessinger]
"The plan is to keep an eye on him and if he does OK, he'll be sent
back to work," said U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Robert Moore, 60, from
Annapolis, Md. "The idea is to get them back into the fight."
"We had air assaulted into Helmand, but were dropped something like 14
kilometers away from Musa Qala ... then we had fought the enemy for
five or six hours after walking to the outskirts of the town,"
Moldovan said.
He and the other soldiers said they walked at night for hours, with
all the troops carrying around 100 pounds of gear and ammunition.
[] []
It's unfortunate the Army would not clear Deryk Schlessinger's friends
from the lurid MySpace. Does Jon deserve that connection for life?
The chilling words and deeply disturbed cartoons are scarring.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/Rtc1eSxyxLI/AAAAAAAABfY/Lfk3MadpWLw/s1600-h/deryk+.+laura+Schlessinger.jpg
Jon looks like a choir boy, he may play around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrqwB-np6E&eurl=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=98959162
http://bp2.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/RxbV64OPzPI/AAAAAAAAB8g/lZCQqRDLciI/s1600-h/Platt+..Santory.jpg
but hard to believe he's an "apathetic killer".
The photo where Jon is in bed, days after he is wounded at a battle
called Afghanistan's Pearl Harbor, well medicated from pain no doubt
and well pumped up from the brass and combat awards. The picture of
the perfect soldier believing all he's told. Ripe for re-enlistment
glory.
http://www.stripes.com/07/dec07/1211%5Fbagram/
Something about it is very sad. Can you be addicted to war?
935 false statements made in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005120.php
No one will even talk about Afghanistan yet. How many lies? How many
Jon Moldovan's are there?
http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2008/01/massacre-of-afghan-children-in-helmand.html
http://kontar7.blogspot.com/2007/12/massacre-of-musa-qala.html
If the Laura Schlessinger flapjaws were doing right by the troops she
would have exposed the corruption and not rallied for young men and
women to be in harms way. Potential fatal harms way. The least she
could have done would have been to harp on helicopter, MRAP and
shortchanged equipment. No she hypes with O'Reilly to battle the USO.
Who will ever forget he great celebrity shortage of Afghanistan!
http://www.newshounds.us/2007/11/26/bill_oreilly_lectures_uso_president.php
http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/12/snake-oil-dr-laura-schlessinger.html
Jon Moldovan was lucky not to lose his nuts this time. Had the
flapjaws, who wallow in blood money, chose truth, Tanner O'Leary might
have returned to his daughter and the other damages never to happen.
http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/news_briefs/2007/12/12/2165492/2165492-1197521658-220x165.jpg
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/14/192012/42
Maybe Jon Moldovan will get better press soon, that's a depressing
picture.
http://www.army.mil/-images/2007/12/12/11234/size2-army.mil-2007-12-12-081949.jpg
[] []
WAR IS HELL ON EARTH
Everyones story must be told.
http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/05/faces-of-fallen.html
[] []
Stars and Stripes
Homelessness affecting many veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51882&source=rss
Stars and Stripes online edition, Wednesday, January 23, 2008..AP
Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this
lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill
Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a
homeless veteran.
There was a happy homecoming, but then an accident -- car crash, broken
collarbone. And then a move east, close to his wife's job but away
from his best friends. And then self-destruction.
He would gun his motorcycle to 100 mph and try to stand on the seat.
He would wait for his wife to leave in the morning, draw the blinds
and open up whatever bottle of booze was closest.
He would pull out his gun, a .45-caliber, semiautomatic pistol.
He would lovingly clean it, or just look at it and put it away.
Sometimes place it in his mouth.
"I don't know what to do anymore," his wife, Anna, told him one day.
"You can't be here anymore."
Peter Mohan never did find a steady job after he left Iraq. He lost
his wife -- a judge granted their divorce this fall -- and he lost his
friends and he lost his home, and now he is here, in a shelter.
He is 28 years old. "People come back from war different," he offers
by way of a summary.
This is not a new story in America: A young veteran back from war
whose struggle to rejoin society has failed, at least for the moment,
fighting demons and left homeless.
But it is happening to a new generation. As the war in Afghanistan
plods on in its seventh year, and the war in Iraq in its fifth, a new
cadre of homeless veterans is taking shape.
And with it come the questions: How is it that a nation that became so
familiar with the archetypal homeless, combat-addled Vietnam veteran
is now watching as more homeless veterans turn up from new wars? What
lessons have we not learned?
For as long as the United States has sent its young men -- and later
its young women -- off to war, it has watched as a segment of them come
home and lose the battle with their own memories, their own scars, and
wind up without homes.
For now, about 1,500 homeless veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have
been identified by the Department of Veterans Affairs. About 400 of
them have taken part in VA programs designed to target homelessness.
Mental illness, financial troubles and difficulty in finding
affordable housing are generally accepted as the three primary causes
of homelessness among veterans, and in the case of Iraq and
Afghanistan, the first has raised particular concern.
Iraq veterans are less likely to have substance abuse problems but
more likely to suffer mental illness, particularly post-traumatic
stress, according to Veterans Affairs.
And that stress by itself can trigger substance abuse.
Some advocates say there are also some factors particular to the Iraq
war, such as multiple deployments and the proliferation of improvised
explosive devices, that could be pulling an early trigger on stress
disorders that can lead to homelessness.
While many Vietnam veterans began showing manifestations of stress
disorders roughly 10 years after returning from the front, Iraq and
Afghanistan veterans have shown the signs much earlier.
"War changes people," says John Driscoll, vice president for
operations and programs at the National Coalition for Homeless
Veterans. "Your trust in people is strained. You've been separated
from loved ones and friends. The camaraderie between troops is very
extreme, and now you feel vulnerable."
The VA spends about $265 million annually on programs targeting
homeless veterans. And as Iraq and Afghanistan veterans face problems,
the VA will not simply "wait for 10 years until they show up," Pete
Dougherty, the VA's director of homeless programs, said when the new
figures were released.
We're out there now trying to get everybody we can to get those kinds
of services today, so we avoid this kind of problem in the future," he
said.
These are all problems defined in broad strokes, but they cascade in
very real and acute ways in the lives of individual veterans.
Take Mike Lally. Lally calls "being on high alert, all the time."
And now Lally, still only 26 years old, is here, booted out of his
house by his wife, padding around in an old T-shirt and sweats at a
Leeds shelter called Soldier On, trying to get sober.
Soldier On is staffed entirely by homeless veterans. A handful who
fought in Iraq or Afghanistan, usually six or seven at a time, mix
with dozens from Vietnam. Its president, Jack Downing, has spent
nearly four decades working with addicts, the homeless and the
mentally ill.
Downing is convinced that ushering homeless veterans back into
homeownership is the best way out of the pattern of homelessness that
has repeated itself in an endless loop, war after war.
"It's a disgrace," Downing says. "You have served your country, you
get damaged, and you come back and we don't take care of you. And we
make you prove that you need our services.
"And how do you prove it?" he continues, voice rising in anger. "You
prove it by regularly failing until you end up in a system where
you're identified as a person in crisis. That has shocked me."
But Driscoll, at least, sees an opportunity to do much better.
He notes that the VA now has more than 200 veteran adjustment centers
to help ease the transition back into society, and the existence of
more than 900 VA-connected community clinics nationwide.
"We're hopeful that five years down the road, you're not going to see
the same problems you saw after the Vietnam War," he says. "If we as a
nation do the right thing by these guys."
jc
The Disease of Pseudoscience and the Hope for a Cure
Brandon A. Gaudiano
http://csicop.org/si/2003-07/book-review.html
The final part of the book focuses on pseudoscience in the media,
including the self-help movement. Nona Wilson provides a cogent
argument for better representation of the mental health field to the
public. Little wonder that the public is ill-informed about
empirically supported treatments when most of their knowledge of
mental health issues comes directly from the likes of "Dr. Phil"
McGraw, radio show host "Dr. Laura" Schlessinger (whose doctorate is
in physiology and not psychology or psychiatry), relationship "expert"
John Gray (who holds no professional license), and motivational guru
Tony Robbins (a practitioner of the pseudoscientific Neurolinguistic
Programming).
The editors conclude with recommendations for combating the current
state of pseudoscience in the field through increased educational and
professional efforts. This book is the first major volume devoted to a
discussion of science and pseudoscience within the field of clinical
psychology, and hopefully can help guide both professionals and
patients toward valid treatments. If the patient is clinical
psychology and the disease is pseudoscience, this book is part of the
treatment.
On Jan 23, 6:53 pm, jc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:
> Stars and Stripes: Jon Moldovan (Deryk Schlessinger) /Homelessness
> affecting veterans
>
> A wounded soldier from his hospital bed: Sgt. Jon Moldovan quotehttp://www.army.mil/-quotes/2007/12/12/6536-sgt-jon-moldovan-quote/
>
> Sgt. Jon Moldovan, reciting the oath of re-enlistment with Brig. Gen.
> Rodney Anderson (to left, not shown). Sgt. Moldovan, 508th Infantry
> Regiment, re-enlisted one day after he was wounded while helping his
> comrades wrest control of Musa Qala, Helmand Province, Afghanistan,
> from the Taliban.
>
> I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of
> the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...
> Dec 12, 2007
> BY Sgt. Jon Moldovan
> []
>
> Also Stars and Stripes featured interview with Deryk Schlessinger's
> best bro and 2006 fiancé brother, Jon Moldovan...http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0612/gallery.ireport.salute.troops/...http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/31/military-investigation-dr...http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/05/keyt.html
>
> Musa Qal'eh 'Fortress of Moses'
>
> Stars and Stripes forever: Sgt. Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville,
> S.C.http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=58353&archive=...
>
> "I woke up to complete chaos ... and a stinging sensation," said Sgt.
> Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville, S.C.
>
> Moldovan had a severe cut in his leg from flying shrapnel. [thanks
> Laura Schlessinger]
>
> "The plan is to keep an eye on him and if he does OK, he'll be sent
> back to work," said U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Robert Moore, 60, from
> Annapolis, Md. "The idea is to get them back into the fight."
>
> "We had air assaulted into Helmand, but were dropped something like 14
> kilometers away from Musa Qala ... then we had fought the enemy for
> five or six hours after walking to the outskirts of the town,"
> Moldovan said.
>
> He and the other soldiers said they walked at night for hours, with
> all the troops carrying around 100 pounds of gear and ammunition.
> [] []
>
> It's unfortunate the Army would not clear Deryk Schlessinger's friends
> from the lurid MySpace. Does Jon deserve that connection for life?
> The chilling words and deeply disturbed cartoons are scarring.http://bp0.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/Rtc1eSxyxLI/AAAAAAAABfY/Lfk3MadpW...
>
> Jon looks like a choir boy, he may play aroundhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrqwB-np6E&eurl=http://profile.myspac...http://bp2.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/RxbV64OPzPI/AAAAAAAAB8g/lZCQqRDLc...
> but hard to believe he's an "apathetic killer".
>
> The photo where Jon is in bed, days after he is wounded at a battle
> called Afghanistan's Pearl Harbor, well medicated from pain no doubt
> and well pumped up from the brass and combat awards. The picture of
> the perfect soldier believing all he's told. Ripe for re-enlistment
> glory.http://www.stripes.com/07/dec07/1211%5Fbagram/
> Something about it is very sad. Can you be addicted to war?
>
> 935 false statements made in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005120.php
> No one will even talk about Afghanistan yet. How many lies? How many
> Jon Moldovan's are there?
>
> If the Laura Schlessinger flapjaws were doing right by the troops she
> would have exposed the corruption and not rallied for young men and
> women to be in harms way. Potential fatal harms way. The least she
> could have done would have been to harp on helicopter, MRAP and
> shortchanged equipment. No she hypes with O'Reilly to battle the USO.
> Who will ever forget he great celebrity shortage of Afghanistan!http://www.newshounds.us/2007/11/26/bill_oreilly_lectures_uso_preside...http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/12/snake-oil-dr-laura-schlessinger.html
>
> Jon Moldovan was lucky not to lose his nuts this time. Had the
> flapjaws, who wallow in blood money, chose truth, Tanner O'Leary might
> have returned to his daughter and the other damages never to happen.http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/news_briefs/2007/12/12/2165492/21...http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/14/192012/42
>
> Maybe Jon Moldovan will get better press soon, that's a depressing
> picture.http://www.army.mil/-images/2007/12/12/11234/size2-army.mil-2007-12-1...
> [] []
> WAR IS HELL ON EARTH
> Everyones story must be told.http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/05/faces-of-fallen.html
> [] []
>
> Stars and Stripes
>
> Homelessness affecting many veterans from Iraq and Afghanistanhttp://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51882&source=rss
jc
http://rupeenews.com/2008/01/31/afghanistan-a-crumbling-alliance-canada-and-australia-withdrawing/
Posted on January 31, 2008
MAPS
Afghanistan is grim for NATO. They control a few of the provinces
mostly in the North. Southern Afghanistan is fully under the control
of the the Mulla Umar Taliban. They have now seeped into Waziristan
and threaten Pakistani settled areas. America has recently sent 3000
new troops but these are not enough.
Japan withdrew forces in Nov 2007.
Australia is withdrawing forces from Iraq and may also withdraw forces
from Afghanistan, though no date has been set for the withdrawal.
The Dutch are also in the same process. The UK is also under
tremendous pressure at home to withdraw forces.
A frustrated Mr. Karazi has requested a dramatic increase in the troop
level but the NATO response has been feeble.
There are 950 Australian troops (ADF) in Afghanistan. There is a new
government in Australia and the new Prime Minister promised to
withdraw troops.
*
a National Command Element in Kabul;
*
Reconstruction Task Force based in Tarin Kowt, Oruzgan Province
as part of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
Provincial Reconstruction Team;
*
Special Forces Task Group deployed to Oruzgan province as part
of ISAF operations against insurgents;
*
The Marines from Multiple One (India company) based at
Lashkargah, a forward operation base, has been undertaking missions in
Balochistan by supporting the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA). Their
main targets include Chinese working in the province, particularly at
Gwadar, Saindak, and Hub.The Marines from Multiple One (India company)
based at Lashkargah, a forward operation base, has been undertaking
missions in Balochistan by supporting the Baluchistan Liberation Army
(BLA). Their main targets include Chinese working in the province,
particularly at Gwadar, Saindak, and Hub.an RAAF air surveillance
radar capability deployed at Kandahar Air Field; and
a Chinook helicopter group based at Kandahar in Helmand province
in support of ISAF operations, temporarily returned to Australia until
April 2008.
The Canadian government is also under tremendous pressure to withdraw
troops from Afghanistan.
Canada informs UK about possible troops withdrawal, Updated at: 0500
PST, Friday, February 01, 2008
TORONTO: Prime Minister Stephen Harper stepped up pressure on his NATO
allies Thursday, cautioning his British counterpart a day after
issuing a similar warning to US President George W. Bush that Canada
will end its military mission in Afghanistan if the alliance does not
assume a greater role in the dangerous south.
Harper, under pressure to withdraw Canada's 2,500 troops from
Afghanistan, spoke to Gordon Brown about an independent Canadian panel
recommendation to extend the mission only if another NATO country
musters 1,000 troops for Kandahar, said his spokesman, Michael Aubie.
Harper conveyed the same message to Bush on Wednesday during a phone
call.
Canadians have grown increasingly weary of the conflict in
Afghanistan, which has claimed the lives of 78 of their troops and one
diplomat. Opposition parties have threatened to bring down Harper's
minority government if he does not withdraw the forces. The mission is
set to expire in 2009 without an extension by Canadian lawmaker.
The refusal of some major European allies to send significant number
of troops to the southern front lines has opened a rift within NATO.
Troops from Canada, Britain, the Netherlands and the United States
have borne the brunt of a resurgence of Taliban violence in the
region, with support from Denmark, Romania, Estonia and non-NATO
nation Australia.
"Canada should remain in Afghanistan beyond February 2009, but only if
NATO Allies supply additional combat troops for Kandahar Province and
our troops have additional equipment. Without that, Canada's mission
will end in a year's time," Aubie said in a statement detailing the
conversation.
The two leaders decided to pursue the issue further in the coming
weeks as Harper talks to other NATO leaders and key players before the
government delivers its final decision later this spring.
Britain has about 7,700 soldiers in Afghanistan, up from 3,600 in2006.
The U.S. contributes one-third of NATO's 42,000-strong International
Security Assistance Force mission, making it the largest participant,
on top of the 12,000 to 13,000 American troops operating
independently.
Harper has promised to put the future of the mission to a vote in
Parliament, where the opposition parties hold the majority of seats.
NATO urged Canada on Wednesday not to pull its troops and pledged to
help find the 1,000 troops.
On Jan 25, 6:12 pm, jc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:
> Book Review
> The Disease of Pseudoscience and the Hope for a Cure
>
> > Stars and Stripes: Jon Moldovan (Deryk Schlessinger) /Homelessness
> > affecting veterans
>
> > A wounded soldier from his hospital bed: Sgt. Jon Moldovan quotehttp://www.army.mil/-quotes/2007/12/12/6536-sgt-jon-moldovan-quote/
>
> > Sgt. Jon Moldovan, reciting the oath of re-enlistment with Brig. Gen.
> > Rodney Anderson (to left, not shown). Sgt. Moldovan, 508th Infantry
> > Regiment, re-enlisted one day after he was wounded while helping his
> > comrades wrest control of Musa Qala, Helmand Province, Afghanistan,
> > from the Taliban.
>
> > I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of
> > the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...
> > Dec 12, 2007
> > BY Sgt. Jon Moldovan
> > []
>
> > Also Stars and Stripes featured interview with Deryk Schlessinger's
> > best bro and 2006 fiancé brother, Jon Moldovan...http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0612/gallery.ireport.salute.troops/...
>
> > Musa Qal'eh 'Fortress of Moses'
>
> > Stars and Stripes forever: Sgt. Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville,
> > S.C.http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=58353&archive=...
>
> > "I woke up to complete chaos ... and a stinging sensation," said Sgt.
> > Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville, S.C.
>
> > Moldovan had a severe cut in his leg from flying shrapnel. [thanks
> > Laura Schlessinger]
>
> > "The plan is to keep an eye on him and if he does OK, he'll be sent
> > back to work," said U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Robert Moore, 60, from
> > Annapolis, Md. "The idea is to get them back into the fight."
>
> > "We had air assaulted into Helmand, but were dropped something like 14
> > kilometers away from Musa Qala ... then we had fought the enemy for
> > five or six hours after walking to the outskirts of the town,"
> > Moldovan said.
>
> > He and the other soldiers said they walked at night for hours, with
> > all the troops carrying around 100 pounds of gear and ammunition.
> > [] []
>
> > It's unfortunate the Army would not clear Deryk Schlessinger's friends
> > from the lurid MySpace. Does Jon deserve that connection for life?
> > The chilling words and deeply disturbed cartoons are scarring.http://bp0.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/Rtc1eSxyxLI/AAAAAAAABfY/Lfk3MadpW...
>
> > Jon looks like a choir boy, he may play aroundhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrqwB-np6E&eurl=http://profile.myspac......
> > but hard to believe he's an "apathetic killer".
>
> > The photo where Jon is in bed, days after he is wounded at a battle
> > called Afghanistan's Pearl Harbor, well medicated from pain no doubt
> > and well pumped up from the brass and combat awards. The picture of
> > the perfect soldier believing all he's told. Ripe for re-enlistment
> > glory.http://www.stripes.com/07/dec07/1211%5Fbagram/
> > Something about it is very sad. Can you be addicted to war?
>
> > 935 false statements made in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005120.php
> > No one will even talk about Afghanistan yet. How many lies? How many
> > Jon Moldovan's are there?
> > http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2008/01/massacre-of-afghan-children-in-helma...
>
> > If the Laura Schlessinger flapjaws were doing right by the troops she
> > would have exposed the corruption and not rallied for young men and
> > women to be in harms way. Potential fatal harms way. The least she
> > could have done would have been to harp on helicopter, MRAP and
> > shortchanged equipment. No she hypes with O'Reilly to battle the USO.
> > Who will ever forget he great celebrity shortage of Afghanistan!http://www.newshounds.us/2007/11/26/bill_oreilly_lectures_uso_preside...
>
> > Jon Moldovan was lucky not to lose his nuts this time. Had the
> > flapjaws, who wallow in blood money, chose truth, Tanner O'Leary might
> > have returned to his daughter and the other damages never to happen.http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/news_briefs/2007/12/12/2165492/21...
>
> ...
>
> read more >>
mysti
where it says also Stars and Stripes featured interview with Deryk
Schlessinger's best bro and 2006 fiancé brother, Jon Moldovan...
On Jan 23, 6:53 pm, jc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:
> Stars and Stripes: Jon Moldovan (Deryk Schlessinger) /Homelessness
> affecting veterans
>
> A wounded soldier from his hospital bed: Sgt. Jon Moldovan quotehttp://www.army.mil/-quotes/2007/12/12/6536-sgt-jon-moldovan-quote/
>
> Sgt. Jon Moldovan, reciting the oath of re-enlistment with Brig. Gen.
> Rodney Anderson (to left, not shown). Sgt. Moldovan, 508th Infantry
> Regiment, re-enlisted one day after he was wounded while helping his
> comrades wrest control of Musa Qala, Helmand Province, Afghanistan,
> from the Taliban.
>
> I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of
> the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...
> Dec 12, 2007
> BY Sgt. Jon Moldovan
> []
>
> Also Stars and Stripes featured interview with Deryk Schlessinger's
> best bro and 2006 fiancé brother, Jon Moldovan...http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0612/gallery.ireport.salute.troops/...http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/31/military-investigation-dr...http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/05/keyt.html
>
> Musa Qal'eh 'Fortress of Moses'
>
> Stars and Stripes forever: Sgt. Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville,
> S.C.http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=58353&archive=...
>
> "I woke up to complete chaos ... and a stinging sensation," said Sgt.
> Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville, S.C.
>
> Moldovan had a severe cut in his leg from flying shrapnel. [thanks
> Laura Schlessinger]
>
> "The plan is to keep an eye on him and if he does OK, he'll be sent
> back to work," said U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Robert Moore, 60, from
> Annapolis, Md. "The idea is to get them back into the fight."
>
> "We had air assaulted into Helmand, but were dropped something like 14
> kilometers away from Musa Qala ... then we had fought the enemy for
> five or six hours after walking to the outskirts of the town,"
> Moldovan said.
>
> He and the other soldiers said they walked at night for hours, with
> all the troops carrying around 100 pounds of gear and ammunition.
> [] []
>
> It's unfortunate the Army would not clear Deryk Schlessinger's friends
> from the lurid MySpace. Does Jon deserve that connection for life?
> The chilling words and deeply disturbed cartoons are scarring.http://bp0.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/Rtc1eSxyxLI/AAAAAAAABfY/Lfk3MadpW...
>
> Jon looks like a choir boy, he may play aroundhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrqwB-np6E&eurl=http://profile.myspac...http://bp2.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/RxbV64OPzPI/AAAAAAAAB8g/lZCQqRDLc...
> but hard to believe he's an "apathetic killer".
>
> The photo where Jon is in bed, days after he is wounded at a battle
> called Afghanistan's Pearl Harbor, well medicated from pain no doubt
> and well pumped up from the brass and combat awards. The picture of
> the perfect soldier believing all he's told. Ripe for re-enlistment
> glory.http://www.stripes.com/07/dec07/1211%5Fbagram/
> Something about it is very sad. Can you be addicted to war?
>
> 935 false statements made in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005120.php
> No one will even talk about Afghanistan yet. How many lies? How many
> Jon Moldovan's are there?
>
> If the Laura Schlessinger flapjaws were doing right by the troops she
> would have exposed the corruption and not rallied for young men and
> women to be in harms way. Potential fatal harms way. The least she
> could have done would have been to harp on helicopter, MRAP and
> shortchanged equipment. No she hypes with O'Reilly to battle the USO.
> Who will ever forget he great celebrity shortage of Afghanistan!http://www.newshounds.us/2007/11/26/bill_oreilly_lectures_uso_preside...http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/12/snake-oil-dr-laura-schlessinger.html
>
> Jon Moldovan was lucky not to lose his nuts this time. Had the
> flapjaws, who wallow in blood money, chose truth, Tanner O'Leary might
> have returned to his daughter and the other damages never to happen.http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/news_briefs/2007/12/12/2165492/21...http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/14/192012/42
>
> Maybe Jon Moldovan will get better press soon, that's a depressing
> picture.http://www.army.mil/-images/2007/12/12/11234/size2-army.mil-2007-12-1...
> [] []
> WAR IS HELL ON EARTH
> Everyones story must be told.http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/05/faces-of-fallen.html
> [] []
>
> Stars and Stripes
>
> Homelessness affecting many veterans from Iraq and Afghanistanhttp://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51882&source=rss
lc
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Deryk Schlessinger, Megan Moldovan, Jon Moldovan
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/images/2007/05/21/photopfcdeprrkscprlessinger.jpg
Blow to Wounded Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9066
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On Jan 31, 9:35 pm, jc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:
> Afghanistan: A crumbling alliance?-Canada and Australia withdrawing?http://rupeenews.com/2008/01/31/afghanistan-a-crumbling-alliance-cana...
> ...
>
> read more »
lc
> I can't get it this workhttp://zzwt.blogspot.com/2007/05/keyt.html
> where it says also Stars and Stripes featured interview with Deryk
> Schlessinger's best bro and 2006 fiancé brother, Jon Moldovan...
>
> On Jan 23, 6:53 pm, jc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:> Stars and Stripes: Jon Moldovan (Deryk Schlessinger) /Homelessness
> > affecting veterans
>
> > A wounded soldier from his hospital bed: Sgt. Jon Moldovan quotehttp://www.army.mil/-quotes/2007/12/12/6536-sgt-jon-moldovan-quote/
>
> > Sgt. Jon Moldovan, reciting the oath of re-enlistment with Brig. Gen.
> > Rodney Anderson (to left, not shown). Sgt. Moldovan, 508th Infantry
> > Regiment, re-enlisted one day after he was wounded while helping his
> > comrades wrest control of Musa Qala, Helmand Province, Afghanistan,
> > from the Taliban.
>
> > I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of
> > the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...
> > Dec 12, 2007
> > BY Sgt. Jon Moldovan
> > []
>
> > Also Stars and Stripes featured interview with Deryk Schlessinger's
> > best bro and 2006 fiancé brother, Jon Moldovan...http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0612/gallery.ireport.salute.troops/...
>
>
> > Stars and Stripes forever: Sgt. Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville,
> > S.C.http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=58353&archive=...
>
> > "I woke up to complete chaos ... and a stinging sensation," said Sgt.
> > Jon Moldovan, 25, from Greenville, S.C.
>
> > Moldovan had a severe cut in his leg from flying shrapnel. [thanks
> > Laura Schlessinger]
>
> > "The plan is to keep an eye on him and if he does OK, he'll be sent
> > back to work," said U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Robert Moore, 60, from
> > Annapolis, Md. "The idea is to get them back into the fight."
>
> > "We had air assaulted into Helmand, but were dropped something like 14
> > kilometers away from Musa Qala ... then we had fought the enemy for
> > five or six hours after walking to the outskirts of the town,"
> > Moldovan said.
>
> > He and the other soldiers said they walked at night for hours, with
> > all the troops carrying around 100 pounds of gear and ammunition.
> > [] []
>
> > It's unfortunate the Army would not clear Deryk Schlessinger's friends
> > from the lurid MySpace. Does Jon deserve that connection for life?
> > The chilling words and deeply disturbed cartoons are scarring.http://bp0.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/Rtc1eSxyxLI/AAAAAAAABfY/Lfk3MadpW...
>
> > but hard to believe he's an "apathetic killer".
>
> > The photo where Jon is in bed, days after he is wounded at a battle
> > called Afghanistan's Pearl Harbor, well medicated from pain no doubt
> > and well pumped up from the brass and combat awards. The picture of
> > the perfect soldier believing all he's told. Ripe for re-enlistment
> > glory.http://www.stripes.com/07/dec07/1211%5Fbagram/
> > Something about it is very sad. Can you be addicted to war?
>
> > 935 false statements made in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005120.php
> > No one will even talk about Afghanistan yet. How many lies? How many
> > Jon Moldovan's are there?
> > http://zzwt.blogspot.com/2008/01/massacre-of-afghan-children-in-helma...
>
> > would have exposed the corruption and not rallied for young men and
> > women to be in harms way. Potential fatal harms way. The least she
> > could have done would have been to harp on helicopter, MRAP and
> > shortchanged equipment. No she hypes with O'Reilly to battle the USO.
> > Who will ever forget he great celebrity shortage of Afghanistan!http://www.newshounds.us/2007/11/26/bill_oreilly_lectures_uso_preside...
>
> > flapjaws, who wallow in blood money, chose truth, Tanner O'Leary might
> > have returned to his daughter and the other damages never to happen.http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/news_briefs/2007/12/12/2165492/21...
>