COURTHOUSE NEWS: AZ Police to Face Claims in Death of Gulf War Veteran

SOURCE: Courthouse News, Jamie Ross reporting, Dec. 30, 2016

http://courthousenews.com/arpaios-officers-must-face-claims-in-death-of-veteran/


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Arpaio’s Officers Must Face Claims in Death of Veteran 

 December 30, 2016JAMIE ROSS

PHOENIX (CN) – The Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s detention officers must face excessive-force claims in the death of a mentally ill Army veteran.

The officers asked a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit last month to grant them qualified immunityfrom a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Ernest “Marty” Atencio, a 44-year-old Gulf War veteran

AMERICAN LEGION COVER STORY, Jan. 2017: Gulf War Illness

American Legion - January 2017 Cover story - Gulf War Illness by Anthony Hardie on Scribd (scroll for additional pages, resources, and related story)

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SOURCE: American Legion National Magazine, January 2017, by Ken Olsen
https://www.legion.org/magazine/235290/nothing-wrong-you

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VA: Studies point to gene-based glitches in ill Gulf War Vets

SOURCE:  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, November 10, 2016
http://www.research.va.gov/currents/1116-3.cfm

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Studies point to gene-based glitches in ill Gulf War Vets 

November 10, 2016

(From left) Drs. Lisa James, Brian Engdahl, and Apostolos Georgopoulos (director) are with the Brain Sciences Center at the Minneapolis VA. They are seen here next to the center's MEG scanner. (Photo by April Eilers

Twenty-five years ago, Brian Zimmerman was a strong 6-foot-1 inch, 185-pound Army infantryman in prime physical condition fighting Iraqi forces in Operation Desert Storm. 

He witnessed charred Iraqi bodies on the "Highway of Death," including a dead child, took part in a tank battle, and was close to an Iraqi ammunition depot called Khamisiyah that upon detonation is believed to have released nerve agents such as sarin and cyclosarin in the direction of U.S. troops.

Today, Zimmerman, 45, is still entrenched in a battle, but one worlds apart from his military days. He's one of the estimated 300,000 Veterans with Gulf War illness (GWI), which affects various