Veterans Today: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today's News!

These are compiled from the latest sources. 1. Walter Reed to rename cancer treatment unit to honor Murtha. When a group of military wives approached John Murtha in the 1990s concerned they couldn't get mammograms in military hospitals, the late congressman said, "That just can't be." If we are going to have women in the military, then we're going to provide mammograms," his widow, Joyce, told the Tribune Review. 2. Truman grandson plants seeds of Hiroshima reconciliation. In October, a visitor delivered a small plastic bag, containing several tree seeds to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. The seeds had fallen from trees, still standing, that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. 3. JBLM soldiers return home, adjust to life away from war. Spending the better part of a year under the Afghanistan sun has a way of making gray skies look lovely. "It's nice to see clouds and rain, said Army Capt Benjamin Meier, just back last week from a mission leading a Stryker company in a tough part of Kandahar province. 4. Pentagon to expand Defense Intelligence Agency's network of spies. The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, US officials said. 5. Schools for children of military families hurt by looming sequestration. In one tiny Texas school  district, that serves the children of active duty and retired military parents at Randolph Air Force Base, sequestration is not some future abstraction or political game. 6. Ex Guardsman Copes With Help Of Service Dog. Paragould AR Daily Press. Jason Dowdy, who did not come back as the same man he once was after serving an 18 month tour of duty in Iraq from 2003-05 with the Arkansas National Guard." An IED explosion "left him with three skull fractures, deafness in his right ear, no sense of smell or taste," and "a left ankle broken in two places," yet he found PTSD "was what had affected him the most since coming home. Dowdy, who once remained in his house for nine straight months, now gas a service dog, a blue Doberman named Charger, courtesy of "Sherri's Project, a non profit organization that trains service dogs for wounded and injured veterans."