PTSD Combat News Roundup: February 2007
Coverage includes:Information on next week's National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Week (Feb 11-17)A choice Tennessean reader comment on the underfunded VAUpdate on the latest veterans'...
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Playboy (Un)Covers The Real Cost of War
Last year I was contacted by Mark Boal, freelance journalist and writer for Playboy magazine. (His 2004 Playboy article, "Death and Dishonor," is currently in film production and slated to be released...
View ArticleAZ Seeks to Ban Political Opinions in Classrooms
Anyone think this is a good thing?PHOENIX (AP) -- A proposed state law would prohibit any instructor in a public school or college from advocating or opposing a political candidate or one side of a...
View ArticleYouTube Speaks Out: Fix Walter Reed!
So, now that we're outraged at the news out of Walter Reed, what to do?ReluctantRedneck has started a campaign asking us to speak out, write, phone, podcast, or record a video reply to the treatment of...
View ArticleGovernment Contractors: Hidden Casualties, PTSD
Inspired by Salo's recommended post on the Guardian article; mine explores different themes.Stunning figures reported yesterday:In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians...
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What's Reporting Got to Do With It? Everything.
The news just keeps on coming.This time, Newsweek reported that between 500 and 1,000 OEF/OIF veterans are homeless and that "[military] families [are] sliding into debtas VA case managers study...
View ArticleMissing Links: I Know Why Walter Reed Happened
So, President Bush has ordered a full review of all military and veteran hospitals in the country.His decision comes, of course, in the wake of a scandal that's been churning away, picking up steam,...
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Marine Overdose at Los Angeles VAMC, Latest in Long Line
No end in sight.An overdose of a California Iraq vet who'd gone to the VA for help:Iraq war veteran Justin Bailey checked himself in to the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center just after...
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Let's Move a Nation to Care...With Free Books!
OK, let's get busy. Let's have some fun. Let's do some good.Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops is finally heading to the printer, and my publisher...
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Call Representatives Today on the Joshua Omvig Suicide Prevention Bill
Monday I posted a collection of the latest returning veteran suicides that I'd found during my regular search for incidents to add the the PTSD Timeline (the ePluribus Media version was combed quite...
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OEF/OIF Vets Use Art to Share Their Experiences
Creative expressions of war by its warriors is nothing new. That's because one of the most powerful ways to communicate and process an intense experience like combat is through art.Returning vets from...
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The War List: OEF/OIF Statistics
It is said that Sir Winston Churchill once remarked, "Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination." Well, we've got a lot of people seeking a way to steady...
View ArticlePTSD Combat News Roundup: March 2007
Coverage includes:House unanimously passes Veterans Suicide Prevention billMay's 15th Annual International Military and Civilian Combat Stress ConferenceVA report arrives showing run-down conditions in...
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A Personal Call to Keep Pushing for Our Veterans
Have you noticed?The winds have picked up, the ground is shifting. And the sands of time are increasingly falling in our favor. Maybe it was the reporting of the Washington Post, or perhaps the...
View ArticleImportant GAO Request Made By Senators Seeking Answers on PTSD-Deployed Troops
From the The Swamp, Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau blog:A batch of senators led by Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is asking congressional investigators to probe the Defense Department's treatment of...
View ArticleLIVE: Senate VA Committee Hears from Military Families
Following the stunning testimony yesterday by Pat Tillman's family and Army Private Jessica Lynch, more families are coming forward today.Streaming live (beginning 2pm ET) and archived here.Via IAVA:On...
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New Englander? 'Moving a Nation Care' Tour Kicks Off Tomorrow
In Boston, Philadelphia, or New York City? If so, hoping to see you as I hit the road at long last in support of my book, Moving a Nation to Care.An extra bonus for those of you making the events?...
View Article1st Walter Reed's Medical Family Assistance Center, Now DoD's America...
I'm bristling a bit at this latest news.Some background: One of the stories that got lost in the (understandable) outrage earlier this year over outpatient conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center...
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The War Tapes' Zack Bazzi Heads to Afghanistan Tomorrow
If you attended YearlyKos last year, you might have taken the opportunity to see the unique war documentary The War Tapes. Or maybe you made time to attend what I felt was one of the strongest panels...
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Wes Clark CCN's Troops & Vets Combat PTSD Series - Part 2
An invitation to the second in a series of articles of my work appearing in General Wes Clark's Clark Community Network Troops & Vets series on PTSD: Society and the Soldier: Post-Traumatic Stress...
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