“How is the BRAC going?” Former President George W. Bush turned and asked as he strode towards the hospital’s main entrance on a warm summer morning in July 2006. He had just completed another of his frequent visits with the wounded troops and their families...
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When you are an Army newlywed in your 40s, you probably think of that quote from When Harry Met Sally: “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” We get that at SpouseBuzz. When you fall in ... Continue...
What makes a good military father? Search online and you will find all these airy notions for fatherhood: Be open minded. Accept that children aren’t exactly like you. Know that it ends too quickly. Those are nice ideas. But I think when you are a sailor, soldier, Marine, Coastie or airman, you have...
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No one wants to see a Marine look like a 2-liter bottle of soda with a white plastic cap on top. So we were really glad to see the USMC nix the whole discussion about making everyone wear the Dan Daly cap this fall. And the Navy really ought to know that any uniform known ... Continue Reading
It isn’t the ‘better or worse’ that breaks up a military marriage. It is the deployment—especially for younger couples in the post-9/11 generation. This week researchers at the RAND Corporation released a new study that shows the accumulated months of deployment significantly increase the probability...
Sometimes I think I understand deployment. My Navy husband has deployed eight times. His ship is in one of the most volatile areas of the world as I write this. I understand what I know as a gone-for-eight-months kind of regular deployment. (If you will please let me call that a “regular”...
As a recently married Army wife, I am still not completely used to the sheer volume of equipment that soldiers must carry with them from post to post. We have a room in our house affectionately referred to as the “TA-50 Room.” This space became necessary once I moved in with my husband and realized ...
Nine years ago I stepped on to the court at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Col. at halftime during a Denver Nuggets game and in front of a bunch of fans, mostly Golden State fans, I took an oath. It was an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all ... Continue Reading
The June issue of the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology is now online. The month’s Time Capsule section examines the work of British psychologist Charles S. Myers on shell shock during World War I. Historian of medicine...
Last week I got to visit Las Vegas with the Armed Forces Foundation to celebrate wounded warriors over Armed Forces Day. What I didn’t expect to find was life inspiration. Let’s be clear here, when I was first invited to come to Las Vegas for the Salute our Troops event at The Palazzo I was...