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 Business Meeting First Wednesday of Each Month (place TBA); Social Meeting Third Wednesday of Each Month At HAPPY'S PLACE on Rockdale Road [Be Sure To visit Beautiful Downtown EAST DUBUQUE, ILLINOIS BE THERE, OR BE SQUARE! |
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"Almost twenty years ago, my good friend Dave LaRue and I were watching a TV news story about the tent city that had sprung up on the lawn of the Los Angeles Veteran's Administration Medical Center in protest of the lack of acknowledgement and treatment for illnesses and complications potentially resulting from Dioxin exposure. Ron Kovic was being interviewed and had just said, 'We represent the best of our generation!' Our newly organizing group of In-Country Nam Vets, the first in our region, had been looking for a good slogan for a bumper sticker to advertise ourselves to the public. Dave and I looked at each other simultaniously and said it at the same instant, 'We ARE the best of our generation!' " The Tri-State Vietnam Veterans Association, Inc. membership adopted this statement of simple self-confidence. It appears on the organization bumber stickers and on the organization banner that is carried in parades by men who don't march, but they do amble pretty good. The In-Country Nam Vets in the Dubuque, Iowa/East Dubuque, Illinois area, and their families, have done much over the last twenty years as a living memorial to all our brothers and sisters, who were killed in Nam, believing in corny things or defiantly doing their time until their obligation would be served. This is our quiet, private, inner peace, that we refuse to die in the aftermath of the ailments inflicted by shunning, and by requiring us to fit into stereotypical roles not all of us are unaware are also a form of death, and that we use some portion of our lives in service still to the nation/community in which we live, regardless of how we feel. "One of the original bumper stickers is used as background on this page segment. Its words continue to challenge us to achieve each new day, one day at a time, as well and fully as we can, for those we remember, for our loved ones, and for ourselves, so that we may be in the face of those who have disparaged us until one hour after they are all dead. In memory of our co-founder-brother departed, Alan Davidson, who tried his best, but could not finish the journey with us, live long and prosper!" --E. Andrews, February 2000
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| "Don't do it, Nicky! Don't do it! I love you!" --The Character "Mike" In THE DEER HUNTER |
 This Section Is Dedicated To The Memory Of Alan Davidson (Piotrowski), VALUED FRIEND, CO-FOUNDER, AND SECOND EDITOR OF "The Viet-Nam Veteran," the TSVVA official Newsletter; "We Miss You, Al!" |
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VETERANS DISABILITY APPLICATION INFO, TIPS, & GUIDES! Viet-Nam Research Site...Indispensable Advice!
(...had he survived, Al would have loved this Site, but he would have been Paranoid about it disclosing personal information!) A Guide For Families - by C.A. Roberts
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DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA For DSM IV #309.81 POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
A. The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present: | (1) The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others (2) The person�s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror. NOTE: In Children, this may be expressed instead by disorganized or agitated behavior
B. The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in one (or more) of the following ways:
C. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responses (not present before the trauma), as indicated by three (or more) of the following:
D. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma), as indicated by two (or more) of the following: E. Duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criteria B, C, and D) is more than one (1) month F. The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
Specify if:
Specify if: Information taken from the: Diagnostic And Statistical Manual | Of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), published by the
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