Taking Some Time to Unplug

To Readers of Wounded Times

Taking some time off to unplug.  After almost 9 years publishing Wounded Times, this will make a total of 2 weeks off in all that time. No posts until August 2. 

Plagiarists At It Again

It is really pitiful to see all the hard work I put into this site simply stolen just because someone felt like it.

Much to my shock, there is a site that has most of my content going back to November of 2015. MyPTSD.com is connected to a site PTSD Blog and they have been using my work going back to November of 2015.

What I do on Wounded Times comes from countless hours of tracking news reports plus over 30 years experience researching and living with PTSD in my own home. I take all of this very seriously. 

It doesn't matter I don't get a paycheck to do it. I get one from my regular job. 

It doesn't matter that I lost a couple thousand dollars every year and no one has thought about any of this. It hasn't stopped me because this, this is my life as it has been for far too long.

It is reprehensible for all these "awareness groups" popping up all over the country expecting money from folks to do what they should be doing for free! Ask any of them what the money is for or why they deserve it and they won't be able to come up with a reasonable answer. Ask them what their background is or what qualifies them to do this work and they won't really have anything to say. Caring isn't enough! That's how we ended up with all of this getting worse instead of better.

Every news report on this site has links to the original source. Every government has links to where it came from. I do not take someone else's work and won't put up an entire article for that reason. I want my readers to go to the link to read the rest of the work the reporter put into the story. I value their work.

If you see any of my work online contact me so that we can stop these plagiarist!

Give Disabled Veterans Power To Change

Give Disabled Veterans Power To Change

The truth only has power when it is known. Support the facts and give them the ability to fight for their lives.

http://www.combatptsdwoundedtimes.org/ Covers the real news and government reports to arm veterans with information they need to know. Congress has jurisdiction over how our veterans are treated yet have failed for decades. National news used to consider what was happening to our veterans as important yet somehow managed to forget that awesome responsibility replacing their stories with politicians using them for votes. 

Since 2007 Wounded Times has covered over 25,000 stories, filmed over 200 videos and broke over 2.5 million page views.  

This proved veterans and families like mine have a hunger to know what is going on all over the country. No politics, no popular claims without facts to back them up but above all, dedicated to defeating PTSD.  I've been doing this work since 1982 when I had to go to the library to understand what combat does to our veterans beyond the wounds you can see with your own eyes.

Another fundraise for a disabled veteran coming up for Orlando Rocks and another escort for the Wall in Wickham Park. Camera is wearing out but I'm not.

Orlando Rocks 2015 Orlando Rocks 2014 Orlando Rocks 2013

Plagiarists Beware

Everything on Wounded Times is from news reports, government publications and other historical records along with articles I've written based on over 30 years of research.

There are over 24,000 articles on Wounded Times. All of them are linked to the source.

If you are among the plagiarists out there using what you find here, you better go back to whatever you simply copied and link to where you got it from!

Define Plagiarist at Dictionary.com
plagiarism definition. Literary theft. Act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author:

I am tired of hearing from readers something I wrote has been copied on another site hours, days, weeks and in a lot cases, years after I wrote it.

They are looking for you now. Whenever we find offenders, it will be publicized especially if it is found on a news site.

In case you doubt this, consider what happened last week when the Rachel Maddow Show decided that privatizing the VA was a great thing to report on and most of the information was what had been posted here days before including the graphic from the history of the VA cover. Could it be a coincidence? Sure that is possible but it is more likely one of her staffers got really lazy.

Wounded Times has been covering the issue of privatizing the VA for years!

If you want to cover veterans issues, do the research all by yourself.

Get an idea and the find the information all on your own the way I invest hours of my own time. I may make it look easy but it is far from it!

If you want to make your life easier, then you can use what I have when you link to it, otherwise folks will know exactly why they should trust anything else you do.

The date and timestamp are on every post on this site and that, you cannot erase that as much as you seem to want to erase my work.

"Wounded Times" Copied Title But Not Work on PTSD

There is something called "Wattpad" and it looks like my site name has been hijacked. It is called, of all things, Wounded Times. It has nothing to do with me, my work or anything else. No clue who they are or what this is all about but ticks me off! Not putting up the link since I don't want to hand them over more traffic. You can search for yourself.

I Cut My Hair Off!

I have been growing my hair for a very long time now so that I could donate it. In work yesterday a friend discovered that I only needed 8 inches, so she got out a ruler and it turned out I had a foot to give. This morning I headed off to Hair Cuttery on Red Bug Lake Road in Winter Springs where Caitlin Bevilacqua took control.

This is when it felt as if my head lost about 10 pounds.

When Caitlin was done, there were 8 inches to donate and another couple of inches on the floor since she needed some hair left over to style.

So if you see me and wonder if it is still me without all the hair you're used to seeing, it is!

Hair Cuttery has a long history of community action and each year they have special programs for veterans.

My hair is being donated to Children with Hair Loss with a prayer that they see the beauty within themselves and they are loved for who they are.

Wounded Times Breaks 2 Million Page Views! Thank You!

Today started off as a day from hell,,,,,

but now it feels like a blessing!

Merry Christmas from Wounded Times

It has been a busy year for Wounded Times with topping off over 23,000 post, over 200 videos and many local veterans events but it has been a blessing. 

Covering the news has been terrible at times when we see so many veterans suffering but renewing when we read stories of veterans doing all they can for others.
I had to return to working for a paycheck because while Wounded Times is popular, few have donated to keep the site going.

I wish I could have done more videos this year and attended more of the events I was invited to, but there are just not enough hours in the day.

With over 10 million views on my profile, if everyone chipped in a dollar, I'd have my news station by now but maybe next Christmas Santa will pull off a miracle.

So, dear readers, here's a recap of some of the events I did manage to cover.

Last Christmas


January

Lt. Nadd's plane came in late.  Uncle Sam waited on stilts for over 45 minutes.

Cathy Haynes 

Patriotic lady brought gator

Orlando Honor Flight Always There With Smiles

1Sgt. Daniel Kalagian 812th MPCO back home on December 7,  2013

Korean War Veteran and Bride

VFW Post 4287 Orlando

Motorcycle Escorts

Budweiser Clydesdales 

OK, I made them do this.  Blame me.

Honored Couple

March

April

May

Oviedo War Memorial Honors 385 Fallen

August

October






Deland Florida American Legion Post #2093 was dedicated to Sgt. Adam Quinn, of Fort Bragg, killed in Afghanistan in 2007. 

Deland American Legion Sgt. Adam Quinn Post

Deland JR ROTC

Jay Conti Sr Florida Department Commander designed this car

This lady painted all the tiles

Patriot Guard Riders

When the flag passed by, everyone saluted!

UPDATE A friend of mine saw me coming and snapped this picture. As tired as I look here, it was less than halfway to the end. Thank God he didn't see me at the end.

December

Yes, the owner let me sit on her bike.

The Grinch showed up with a bigger heart

Orlando Police Officers did a fabulous job escorting!

This is Betty.

And to cap things off, there was the movie Terrible Love that we worked on for 3 years winning the Austin Film Festival Audience Award.

Join us for the second screening in the 2015 Audience Award series: Terrible Love, Monday, February 2nd at 7:00PM at the Alamo Drafthouse Village, located at 2700 West Anderson Lane, Austin, TX 78757. The winner of the 2014 Narrative Feature Audience Award and a bittersweet autopsy of mental illness and lost love, Terrible Love tells the story of Rufus, a wounded veteran returning home from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his devoted wife Amy. They promised themselves never to leave each other, but that promise is put to the ultimate test when Rufus’ PTSD becomes violent. Terrible Love dives head first into the heart-breaking effects of PTSD, the relationships it hurts, and the lives it threatens.