Readjustment challenges of combat stress compound the many other challenges servicemen and women face when they return to civilian life. Many times, the only other person who understands that experience and can help with readjustment and, if necessary, recommend mental health services, is another veteran.
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The Cost Of War robs the world of its ability to pay the price of civilization. Learning to live WITH this planet is a much more noble cause than depopulating the planet of human life.
Disgusting! Disingenuous! And, this is only week one of the the McCain Plain “bullshit express.” As Sarah Palin continues to tell us about her son leaving for Iraq on 9/11, the RNC put up a fake video of a soldiers funeral at the convention. Palin, the McCain foot soldier of “Country First,” goes along with [...]
This photo was taken on March 25, 2003.
Soldier in famous photo never defeated ‘demons’
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Dwyer told police Lt. Mike Wilson [...]
British soldiers forced to take loans to eat
LONDON: Many soldiers in the British army are living in poverty, and some of them are so poor that they are unable to eat and are forced to rely on emergency food voucher schemes set up by the ministry of defence, claims a damning and highly sensitive internal [...]
Atheist soldier claims harassment
Army Spc. Jeremy Hall sues U.S. for religious discrimination
Hall is known as “the atheist guy,” called immoral and a devil worshipper
He turned to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for help
“It’s just about time somebody said something” about pressure to believe in God
It eventually came out in Iraq in 2007, when he was [...]
(The Intelligence Daily) — Top officials at the Veterans Administration tried to conceal information from the public about the sudden increase of attempted suicides among veterans that were treated or sought help at VA hospitals around the country, a previously undisclosed internal VA email indicates.
The email was disclosed Tuesday in a federal trial at a [...]
Murder Trial Points to War Trauma
A Maryland murder trial is being turned into a debate on the lingering traumatic impact of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the psyche of the Americans who served there.
Army Ranger veteran Gary Smith is on trial for murdering fellow Ranger Michael McQueen.
Military leaders have acknowledged that the service [...]
Depression and suicidal thoughts aren’t limited to vets with PTSD; family members may experience it as well.
… an excerpt from testimony before a House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health hearing held February 28, 2008, regarding the Iraq War’s mental health impacts of Iraq War on the families of Guard/Reserve veterans.
Nearly 3 million immediate [...]
Can someone please tell me what war on which planet, Bush believes victory will happen. Lies; death; destruction; a failing American economy; almost $11 Billion per month; 4,462 American soldiers dead; 29,395 American soldiers wounded; tens of thousand Iraqi civilians dead and who knows how many contractors are dead or wounded. And yet, according to [...]
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