Remember all the outrage six months ago or so, when newspaper investigations unearthed deteriorated and even dangerous conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the nation’s capital and other military hospitals where so many of those wounded or injured in the Iraq war go for treatment and rehabilitation?

WASHINGTON - President Bush apologized Friday for the shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and promised during a visit to the facility for war veterans that "we're going to fix the problem."

The scandal of the Army’s after-care of wounded soldiers has claimed the jobs of the secretary of the Army, the Army surgeon general and the commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

WASHINGTON - Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey abruptly stepped down Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-Ariz., has called for an investigation into reports of deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which cares for wounded U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

It took 15 months and a phone call to U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell before Iraq war veteran Ruben Gallego could get treatment for his injured knee. Gallego left the Marines in September 2005 and didn’t seek help right away.

Washington has come up with twice the usual number of solutions to the problem of scandalously poor outpatient treatment and housing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

WASHINGTON - One of the grimmest consequences for a president who wages war is coming face-to-face with men and women he sent into battle and who returned wounded.

EL PASO, Texas -- Five former prisoners of war spent the day with loved ones on Sunday while two of their comrades celebrated Easter with President Bush.

Shrapnel from mortar fire blew off nearly half of Erik Castillo’s skull, shattering the right side of his face and leaving him deaf in his right ear and limp on the left side. But today, he is walking with a cane and describing horrific injuries he doesn’t remember.

Shrapnel from mortar fire blew off nearly half of Erik Castillo’s skull, shattering the right side of his face and leaving him deaf in his right ear and limp on the left side. But today, he is walking with a cane and describing horrific injuries he doesn’t remember.

As we all owe a debt of gratitude to our nation’s veterans, those same veterans should be thankful for the efforts of Raymond Weeks.

A Chandler doctor who honed his skills repairing the crushed spines of trauma patients as a neurosurgeon in Scottsdale used those abilities last week on former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch.

His mother always thought it would go away, his burning desire to become a Marine. But Kevin Denton wanted it since he was a boy. So on his 18th birthday, while still a senior at Mesa's Dobson High School, he signed up.

LANDSTUHL, Germany - The seven American POWs rescued in Iraq are in good health but need "individual attention" to help them cope with the emotional toll of three weeks in captivity, military doctors said.

Gov. Jan Brewer, in her first trip to Afghanistan, said the war in real life is “unimaginable.''

WINDBER, Pa. - Nearly a century after Windber Medical Center opened its doors, the coal company that started the industrial infirmary no longer commands this western Pennsylvania community.

Families of soldiers killed or wounded in the line of duty may soon have a source of funds to help meet some expenses.

Gov. Janet Napolitano on Monday removed the director of the State Department of Veterans Services from running a veterans’ nursing home that was fined this month for patient neglect.

Slowed by the recession, a recent back surgery and the heat, a Chandler woman said she badly needs the public's help in collecting donations and mailing care packages to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“People, people, people! Do not leave your children alone around water. It’s stupid. It’s deadly. And the first responders don’t need the added abuse.”

Twenty-three years ago, Jeff Lewis lost his spleen in an accidental shooting. In April 2005, he lost both hands and feet in another life-threatening event.

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - A plane carrying rescued U.S. POW Jessica Lynch left for the United States on Saturday after a week of treatment at a military hospital in western Germany.

For all the recent complaints and consternation about veterans’ care, little blame has fallen upon the hospitals themselves.