A collection of war time letters makes one wonder how we will look back on love in an electronic age. Read More...
A cherry tree marks a family's final few months of separation. Read More...
Healing Combat Veteran , There's a great article on the Web from the Salem (Oregon) News-Record of June 11, 2007, called " Marine Combat Vet Discusses Iraq, PTSD and Medical Marijuana ," linked here . The former Marine in question is Nicholas Burgin, and the subhead to the article is, "The...
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Filed under: Barriers to Care, spirituality, stigma, therapy, triggers, war, values, veterans, Structural Dissociation, trauma, Nightmares, Check the Facks, somatoform disorders
I really should have waited, but had to pull the trigger on this one. Didn't want to be scooped if I'm to be honest ... Should we really throw our expensive Prison Forces against our returning veterans? November 2009 VA FACT SHEET says, The most recent U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice...
A thundering explosion rocks downtown Baghdad, your body recoils at the deafening sound, adrenaline courses through your veins driven by a heart suddenly hammering within your chest. No time to react; the air expands with punishing force as the concussion of a devastating shock wave races through the...
In the last few posts I have been reposting some writings with a central theme. What a combat veteran goes through after returning from the battlefield, what we bring home to our families and communities. Below I discuss an identification with the crippling guilt that had blocked access to fully realizing...
If you are just now joining us, I am posting overlooked articles that I think can build on an understanding of your combat veteran. In this post I attempt to portray the minds landscape of the veteran or soldier have gone to the brink of death and found the place where others lose theirs and how do we...
If you are just now joining us, I am posting overlooked articles that I think can build on an understanding of your combat veteran. In this post I attempt to portray the minds landscape of the veteran or soldier have gone to the brink of death and found the place where others lose theirs and how do we...
Another reposting to bring forth knowledge to those who wish to understand their combat veteran. My war was in 1991, fought against a invading force foregoing a countries self-determination and rule. A soldier has to believe that their cause has been a just one. For without this belief, war has become...
AP Online All - November 04, 2008 CHICAGO_Preschoolers with a parent away at war were more likely to show aggression than other young children in military families, according to the first published research on how the very young react to wartime deployment. Hitting, biting and hyperactivity _ "the...