SACRAMENTO: Forgotten Angels...CALL FOR SUBJECTS /PARTICIPANTS for Active & Retired Military Women

FORGOTTEN ANGELS - A Matter of Honor is a Fine Art Photography Exhibition and Documentary Film which is scheduled to Premiere March 1st-June 12th 2012 in Washington D C at The Women In Service to America Memorial Museum at Arlington

SWORDFISH is looking for additional women to be interviewed in photography and film Award winning Writer/Director/Producer Ann P Meredith grew up in Sacramento and is completing her 25 year project here in the area.

If you are willing and able to meet with us - Ann and Linda - to tell you story please contact us directly at 415 623 9048 or email FORGOTTENANGELS7@gmail.com to set up a half hr/45min appointment.

Interviewees needing to remain anonymous will be accommodated.

We are looking for women of all races, ages and military experiences including all ranks and job titles. ANGELS need a well to interview women of Hispanic and Asian heritage, anyone who is an amputee, and anyone who is an MST/military sexual trauma survivor.

We want to meet you and hear your stories that can be shared with others as the show travels nationally. ANGELS' Vision is to help give a real face and a voice to women in the military.

Ann's Aunt Martha Jane Adkins served in Korea as a Navy radio operator

Ann's father was a career man in the Air Force, retiring at Mc Clellan AFB

and Ann, herself is a survivor of MST

Please Call us!

BE A PART OF HELPING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN PEOPLE'S LIVES & THE WORLD

Thank you,

Ann P Meredith

SWORDFISH Productions

mobile 415 623 9048

www.forgottenangels.biz

forgottenangels7@gmail.com

July 2010 Good News for Veterans...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/

July 24, 2010 Veterans agency eases penalties on medical marijuana

July 24, 2010 | 8:02 pm

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs is changing a rule that penalizes veterans using medical marijuana in the 14 states where the practice is legal, according to a departmental directive.

The change, which had been sought by some veteran groups, will prevent veterans who are prescribed and using medical marijuana in those states from losing government benefits.

The new rule does not permit VA physicians to prescribe medical marijuana, for its use to be allowed in VA facilities or for VA to pay for medical marijuana.

As an illegal drug under federal law, marijuana had presented veterans and physicians prescribing it for pain relief and other conditions with potential prosecution or loss of VA benefits.

The new rule clarifies the exceptions where veterans who use Veterans Health Administration, or VHA, services can use medical marijuana in the states that allow it.

"Although patients participating in state medical marijuana programs must not be denied VHA services, modifications may need to be made in their treatment plans," the VA said.

"Decisions to modify treatment plans in those situations are best made by individual providers in partnership with their patients," the directive said.

The Department of Veteran Affairs said medical conditions associated with the use of medical marijuana include glaucoma, chemotherapy-induced nausea, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and chronic pain.

The 14 states permitting use of medical marijuana are Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

The new rule expires in July 2015, the VA said.

-- Reuters

Photo: Tim Blakeley, manager of Sunset Junction medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, shows marijuana plant buds in May. Credit: Getty Images.

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Federal Register /Vol. 75, No. 133 /Tuesday, July 13, 2010 /Rules and Regulations 39843

"DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 38 CFR Part 3 RIN 2900–AN32
Stressor Determinations for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulations governing service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by liberalizing in some cases the evidentiary standard for establishing the required in-service stressor. This amendment eliminates the requirement for corroborating that the claimed in-service stressor occurred if a stressor claimed by a veteran is related to the veteran’s fear of hostile military or terrorist activity and a VA psychiatrist or psychologist, or a psychiatrist or psychologist with whom VA has contracted, confirms that the claimed stressor is adequate to support a diagnosis of PTSD and that the veteran’s symptoms are related to the claimed stressor, provided that the claimed stressor is consistent with the places, types, and circumstances of the veteran’s service."...

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