Facility open to sexually abused vets

By: American Decency Staff

Recently several ministries including ADA have been expressing concern regarding pornography in the militaryNow this report: Military sexual assaults jumped from 1,700 in 2004 to 2,947 in 2006 – "…The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is opening a treatment center exclusively for traumatized female veterans amid an unprecedented wave of reported rapes, assaults and harassment against women in the military. The facility, scheduled to open in late December at the VA's Lyons medical center in Bernards Township, N.J., will be the only residential program in the national VA health care system devoted to solely treating women who experienced what is known as military sexual trauma, or MST. Although the VA has a national network of 15 sexual trauma programs, those programs differ from the new one because they either accept both sexes or care for women who also have mental health issues not related to sexual assault. An ongoing VA screening process mandated by Congress in 2002 has consistently found that 20 percent of women and 1 percent of men leaving the military say they suffered some form of sexual trauma, including assault and serious harassment. … "… You hear survivors of a war saying it was their buddies who got them through," Westrup said. 'Can you imagine what being gang raped by your buddies would do to you? …'" http://www.newhouse.com/u.s.-plans-facility-for-sexually-traumatized-female-veterans.html Monday's email – "Pornography on American military bases – a call to action" https://americandecency.org/main.php?f=updates_new/2007/November/11.05.07 ACTION NEED The Pentagon staff member to contact regarding this policy is the Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Personnel & Readiness- Michael Dominguez. Tell him to obey the Military Honor and Decency Act and remove pornography from all military exchanges. Michael.dominguez@osd.mil ================== *************************** American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 ph:231-924-4050 fax:231-924-1966

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