In love and war: marriage on the front lines
By Lindsay Wise - Houston Chronicle via AP
Posted : Saturday Jan 2, 2010 14:55:36 EST
BAGHDAD — You won’t find Iraq listed as a Top 10 honeymoon destination in the glossy pages of any bridal magazine, but there’s nowhere else newlyweds Miguel and Amanda Perez would rather be right now.
“I like to think about it like it’s the military sending us on a vacation,” joked Miguel, a 24-year-old sergeant from Houston. “Sand and palm trees everywhere — a nine-month honeymoon.”
The Perezes are one of six married couples who deployed to Iraq with the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, a Texas Army National Guard unit headquartered in Houston. About 3,000 soldiers from the brigade are stationed across the country, assigned to missions such as Green Zone security, detainee operations, force protection and convoys.
Both Perezes served in Iraq before. Miguel deployed from 2006-07. Amanda deployed from 2008-09.
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In love and war: marriage on the front lines
Monday, January 4, 2010
PBS gets in touch with emotions and a Vietnam Vet with PTSD
Over the course of six hours, PBS gets in touch with emotions
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent
No doubt there are viewers for whom a six-hour PBS miniseries about our emotions sounds like an excruciating torment itself.
THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE
On: Channel 2
Time: Monday through Wednesday at 9 p.m.
“This Emotional Life,’’ debuting tonight on WGBH (Channel 2), proves that fear to be irrational. But whether it’s worth the time in therapy to overcome, they’ll have to decide for themselves.
The three-night show is promoted as an examination of our relationship to happiness, but only the third night really focuses on that. The first two examine roadblocks to happiness such as loneliness, marital discontent, post-traumatic stress, clinical depression, and phobias, as well as new attempts to overcome them.
The title seems an obvious reference to public radio’s storytelling “This American Life.’’ “This Emotional Life’’ revolves around narratives of real people wrestling with those emotional roadblocks: a family worn down by their adopted son’s attachment disorder; a Massachusetts state senator who found the greatest release from his depression by revealing it; a Vietnam veteran who struggled with PTSD for 30 years.
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PBS gets in touch with emotions
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent
No doubt there are viewers for whom a six-hour PBS miniseries about our emotions sounds like an excruciating torment itself.
THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE
On: Channel 2
Time: Monday through Wednesday at 9 p.m.
“This Emotional Life,’’ debuting tonight on WGBH (Channel 2), proves that fear to be irrational. But whether it’s worth the time in therapy to overcome, they’ll have to decide for themselves.
The three-night show is promoted as an examination of our relationship to happiness, but only the third night really focuses on that. The first two examine roadblocks to happiness such as loneliness, marital discontent, post-traumatic stress, clinical depression, and phobias, as well as new attempts to overcome them.
The title seems an obvious reference to public radio’s storytelling “This American Life.’’ “This Emotional Life’’ revolves around narratives of real people wrestling with those emotional roadblocks: a family worn down by their adopted son’s attachment disorder; a Massachusetts state senator who found the greatest release from his depression by revealing it; a Vietnam veteran who struggled with PTSD for 30 years.
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PBS gets in touch with emotions
Officer is mourned, loss shocks Worcester police department
Officer is mourned
Loss shocks Worcester dept.
‘GREAT DAD, OFFICER, MARINE, & FRIEND'
By Scott J. Croteau TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
scroteau@telegram.com
Silent and solemn, a group of Worcester police officers stood yesterday on Reservoir Street in Holden to remember their brother officer, Mark D. Bisnette, a father and Marine who lost his life in a single-car crash Saturday.
Known as “Bizz” to his close friends, Officer Bisnette, 38, is remembered by many as a man with an infectious smile, who was proud to serve as a Marine in the Gulf War, and could carry on a conversation about anything.
“Everybody had their Bizz stories. The kid is just one of a kind. Just a great friend, always be there for you,” said Officer Thomas B. Duffy, who rushed to UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus in Worcester after hearing about his friend's crash.
“He was as loyal as they get. He would do anything for his family and friends,” Officer Duffy said.
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http://www.telegram.com/article/20100104/NEWS/1040385/1116
VA reaches out to female vets
VA reaches out to female vets
By Michael O’Connor
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
When Amber Burns walks into the Veterans Affairs health clinic in Lincoln, she’s often the only female veteran in the place.
That probably will be changing.
Women make up one of the fastest-growing groups of veterans, a trend bringing changes to the VA health system in Nebraska, Iowa and the rest of the nation.
Members of the VA medical staff in Nebraska and western Iowa are receiving refresher training on gynecological exams, proper nutrition during pregnancy, cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment, and other medical care that women need.
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VA reaches out to female vets
By Michael O’Connor
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
When Amber Burns walks into the Veterans Affairs health clinic in Lincoln, she’s often the only female veteran in the place.
That probably will be changing.
Women make up one of the fastest-growing groups of veterans, a trend bringing changes to the VA health system in Nebraska, Iowa and the rest of the nation.
Members of the VA medical staff in Nebraska and western Iowa are receiving refresher training on gynecological exams, proper nutrition during pregnancy, cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment, and other medical care that women need.
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VA reaches out to female vets
VA building has no handicap way in?
Idaho Falls
A Veteran's Struggle to Get In
Posted: Jan 1, 2010 11:25 PM EST
Reporting: Johnny Archer
A building in Bonneville County used for U.S. Veteran's Affairs has no handicap accessibility and there are some veterans who want to see that changed.
Veterans from counties other than Bonneville County use the building; vets that live as far away as Wyoming and Montana come to use it as well.
Douglas Stewart, disabled Vietnam veteran: "Vietnam veterans, Korean veterans and some of the Gulf War veterans that are all confined to a wheelchair have no way of getting into this building."
The building Stewart is referring to is the Veteran's Memorial Hall in Idaho Falls where hundreds of vets each month come to receive needed services; many of the vets are physically disabled.
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http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=11758158
A Veteran's Struggle to Get In
Posted: Jan 1, 2010 11:25 PM EST
Reporting: Johnny Archer
A building in Bonneville County used for U.S. Veteran's Affairs has no handicap accessibility and there are some veterans who want to see that changed.
Veterans from counties other than Bonneville County use the building; vets that live as far away as Wyoming and Montana come to use it as well.
Douglas Stewart, disabled Vietnam veteran: "Vietnam veterans, Korean veterans and some of the Gulf War veterans that are all confined to a wheelchair have no way of getting into this building."
The building Stewart is referring to is the Veteran's Memorial Hall in Idaho Falls where hundreds of vets each month come to receive needed services; many of the vets are physically disabled.
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http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=11758158
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