I apologize for placing such a serious matter amid a day of posts that are much lighter in tone but I wanted to post this ASAP so anyone who wants to can go sign the petition. 
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Target: The Next U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Sponsored by: Care2

Women in the military are silently struggling. In 2007, there were 2,688 reported sexual assaults in the military, with nearly half being rape.
Shockingly, most are forced to pay for their own rape kit (victims’ files containing DNA samples, interviews, photographs of injuries and other evidence). TRICARE, the U.S. …

Though the motive remains a mystery, charges have been filed in the deaths of two soldiers shot by a member of their own squad on an Army control base in Iraq. Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, 39, is accused of shooting down Army Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson, 24, and Sgt. Wesley Durbin, 26, during a meeting on September 14th that concerned Bozicevich’s leadership performance.  The three men belonged to the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division. Bozicevich and Durbin were team leaders while Dawson was their superior squad leader. 
Bozicevich …