People of 2009: Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense

Everything in this article is true and most of my readers know it already. They read posts about what Paul Sullivan has been doing all along, so this is no surprise at all. There is even more Paul does because he never stops working for our veterans. That's his only goal because doing the right thing is his passion.

It's been posted often that when it comes to having people on TV and cable shows addressing our veterans, it should be Paul Sullivan answering the questions because few are as informed as he is. He should have an office filled with awards for all he's done but I bet, knowing Paul, he'd be a lot happier with the veterans being taken care of as reward enough for him and all of his hard work.

People of 2009: Paul Sullivan
February 4, 2010
Jeffrey Allen, OneWorld US

For exposing the disgraceful treatment of soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan and for his work to protect civil liberties for all Americans

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (OneWorld.net) - Gulf War veteran Paul Sullivan has dedicated the last few years of his life to making sure Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans get the care they deserve, while also exposing the true financial and human costs of the current conflicts.

In 2009, Sullivan not only worked quietly behind the scenes to help numerous journalists break stories about the epidemic of suicides and other mental health disorders facing returned veterans, but his organization fought the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) publicly to force the release of documents demonstrating the reality of longterm health issues faced by U.S. veterans.

The Freedom of Information Act request executed by Sullivan's Veterans for Common Sense revealed that nearly 300 veterans filed new disability claims every single day in 2008. Sullivan's group posted all the documents it received from that request on its Web site for journalists and others to use to uncover the extent of damage done to U.S. soldiers in today's wars.
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People of 2009: Paul Sullivan