http://www.gulfweb.org/NewsWire/gwvrpdocs.aspxThe latest content from the Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages.(c) 2005, Grant Szabo. All rights reserved.5After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead and 100,000 Iraqi dead, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=825Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTWorkers cleaning up the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico suffering from oil contamination. Symptoms include a range of debilitating health problems, including racing heartbeat, vomiting, dizziness, ear infections, swollen throat...http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=826Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has agreed to re-examine the disability claims for what could turn out to be thousands of veterans of the Gulf War.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=820Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTThe military has agreed to expedite a review the records of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans discharged with post-traumatic stress disorder to determine whether they were improperly denied benefits.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=819Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTAs of Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at least 4,365 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq War since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=818Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe remains of the first American lost in the 1991 Persian Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, after struggling for nearly two decades with the question of whether he was dead or alive.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=817Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMTPresident Barack Obama on Friday moved to fulfill the defining promise of his campaign, saying all U.S. combat troops will be withdrawn by the end of August 2010.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=816Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTA congressionally-mandated panel has concluded that "Gulf War syndrome" is real and that more than a quarter of the 700,000 US veterans of the 1991 conflict suffer from the illness.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=815Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTPresident Bush on Tuesday nominated retired Army Lt. Gen. James Peake to direct the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs, which is strained by the influx of wounded troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=814Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTThe Pentagon said Wednesday it has created a new Web site to help veterans who face difficulty returning to their old jobs or finding new ones after deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=813Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT