Homeless Vets get motel assistance from cold
Updated: Sunday, 10 Jan 2010, 11:39 PM EST
Published : Sunday, 10 Jan 2010, 11:39 PM EST
By Derrol Nail
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A local homeless organization is extending the stay for 22 veterans at a local hotel to keep them safe from the freezing temperatures outside. The National Veterans Homeless Support organization is paying about $20 a night for each of the twelve rooms occupied by homeless veterans at the Super 8 in Titusville.
The N.H.V.S. president and founder, George Taylor found the men in the woods, on the street, and at homeless encampments across Brevard County. To go out and find them out in the woods and bring them in, was a task.
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Homeless Vets get motel assistance from cold
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
‘Real Warrior’ Describes Post-traumatic Stress
‘Real Warrior’ Describes Post-traumatic Stress
By Elaine Wilson
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2010 – When Staff Sgt. Megan Krause returned home from a deployment in Iraq in 2006, she thought the scariest moments of her life were over.
At her homecoming, “I ran to my mother in that hangar; we both cried tears of joy,” said Krause, now an Army Reserve medic attached to a combat engineering unit in Pennsylvania. “I told her it was over and I was fine.
“Boy, was I wrong.”
Krause later found herself waging a terrifying war with post-traumatic stress disorder. She described the battle and her road to recovery here today during the Real Warriors Campaign session at the 2010 Suicide Prevention Conference sponsored by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
Krause said she hit rock bottom while a student at Penn State University about two years after her deployment.
“It was when I found myself face down in the mud pit, in the middle of a pigpen in State College, Pa., running from the insurgents that I thought were chasing me, that I realized I had not yet survived,” Krause said. “I might not have been having suicidal ideations, but I was well on my way to killing myself.”
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http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=57454
By Elaine Wilson
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2010 – When Staff Sgt. Megan Krause returned home from a deployment in Iraq in 2006, she thought the scariest moments of her life were over.
At her homecoming, “I ran to my mother in that hangar; we both cried tears of joy,” said Krause, now an Army Reserve medic attached to a combat engineering unit in Pennsylvania. “I told her it was over and I was fine.
“Boy, was I wrong.”
Krause later found herself waging a terrifying war with post-traumatic stress disorder. She described the battle and her road to recovery here today during the Real Warriors Campaign session at the 2010 Suicide Prevention Conference sponsored by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
Krause said she hit rock bottom while a student at Penn State University about two years after her deployment.
“It was when I found myself face down in the mud pit, in the middle of a pigpen in State College, Pa., running from the insurgents that I thought were chasing me, that I realized I had not yet survived,” Krause said. “I might not have been having suicidal ideations, but I was well on my way to killing myself.”
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http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=57454
3 killed in shooting at Georgia workplace
3 killed in shooting at Georgia workplace
January 12, 2010 4:34 p.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Camouflage-clad suspect arrested after fleeing in a pickup truck, police say
Death toll is 3 in shooting at business in Kennesaw, Georgia, authorities say
Five people were shot in attack, Cobb County Fire Lt. Dan Dupree says
Kennesaw is about 25 miles north of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Three people were killed and two others wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a Penske truck rental business in suburban Atlanta, authorities said.
The shooting occurred at 1:57 p.m. ET at the business in Kennesaw, Georgia, said Cobb County Fire Lt. Dan Dupree. A suspect is in custody, Dupree said, and there were a total of five victims.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/12/georgia.workplace.shooting/index.html
January 12, 2010 4:34 p.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Camouflage-clad suspect arrested after fleeing in a pickup truck, police say
Death toll is 3 in shooting at business in Kennesaw, Georgia, authorities say
Five people were shot in attack, Cobb County Fire Lt. Dan Dupree says
Kennesaw is about 25 miles north of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Three people were killed and two others wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a Penske truck rental business in suburban Atlanta, authorities said.
The shooting occurred at 1:57 p.m. ET at the business in Kennesaw, Georgia, said Cobb County Fire Lt. Dan Dupree. A suspect is in custody, Dupree said, and there were a total of five victims.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/12/georgia.workplace.shooting/index.html
Help sought in abandoned baby case at Polk
Help sought in abandoned baby case at Polk
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Jan 11, 2010 12:55:00 EST
FORT POLK, La. — Fort Polk police are asking for help in finding the person or persons who abandoned a newborn at a fire station on Dec. 6.
The infant, now in foster care, is a male who is either black, Hispanic, or biracial. The military says the baby's estimated age at the time of abandonment was between two and 14 days.
The infant had been wrapped in a polyester quilt blanket. The blanket featured a design of brown teddy bears and yellow stars over a blue-and-white checkered pattern.
Officials believe the infant was delivered in a place other than a hospital and are concerned about the mother's welfare.
Anyone with information on the case can call the Military Police investigations office at (337) 353-8226.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_abandoned_baby_011110/
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Jan 11, 2010 12:55:00 EST
FORT POLK, La. — Fort Polk police are asking for help in finding the person or persons who abandoned a newborn at a fire station on Dec. 6.
The infant, now in foster care, is a male who is either black, Hispanic, or biracial. The military says the baby's estimated age at the time of abandonment was between two and 14 days.
The infant had been wrapped in a polyester quilt blanket. The blanket featured a design of brown teddy bears and yellow stars over a blue-and-white checkered pattern.
Officials believe the infant was delivered in a place other than a hospital and are concerned about the mother's welfare.
Anyone with information on the case can call the Military Police investigations office at (337) 353-8226.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_abandoned_baby_011110/
Increase in suicide rate of veterans noted
They say they saved 6,000 but the successful suicides went up anyway? So who is asking what is being done that there was an increase in successful suicides as well as attempted ones they managed to "save" with suicide prevention?
It's not just that the suicide numbers have gone up that needs to be considered. It is also the unsuccessful ones that need to be addressed before they try again. How many times have you read about a veteran committing suicide only to find out from the family this was not their first try? What makes them try it in the first place? Until we know this, the numbers will keep going up. Given the fact most of them don't ever see a therapist to go with their bottles of medications, this is a part of it. What kind of follow ups do they receive after they seek help from suicide prevention? Are they sent to just stand in the ever increasing long line of others waiting to live? With the backlog of claims there is the issue of no income. Do they think this adds to a veteran wanting to die because they were wounded in combat and now can't support themselves of their families because of it? Do they think it adds to what they are dealing with when they end up regretting surviving?
It's not just that the suicide numbers have gone up that needs to be considered. It is also the unsuccessful ones that need to be addressed before they try again. How many times have you read about a veteran committing suicide only to find out from the family this was not their first try? What makes them try it in the first place? Until we know this, the numbers will keep going up. Given the fact most of them don't ever see a therapist to go with their bottles of medications, this is a part of it. What kind of follow ups do they receive after they seek help from suicide prevention? Are they sent to just stand in the ever increasing long line of others waiting to live? With the backlog of claims there is the issue of no income. Do they think this adds to a veteran wanting to die because they were wounded in combat and now can't support themselves of their families because of it? Do they think it adds to what they are dealing with when they end up regretting surviving?
Increase in suicide rate of veterans noted
By Kimberly Hefling - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jan 12, 2010 6:35:01 EST
WASHINGTON — The suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old men who've left the military has gone up significantly, the government said Monday.
The rate for these veterans went up 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to preliminary data from the Veterans Affairs Department. VA officials said they assume that most of the veterans in this age group served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
If there is a bright spot in the data, it's that in 2007 veterans in the group who used VA health care were less likely to commit suicide than those who did not. That's a change from 2005.
In recent years, the VA has hired thousands of new mental health professionals and established a suicide hot line credited with "rescues" of nearly 6,000 veterans and military members in distress.
The military has also struggled with an increase in suicides, with the Army seeing a record number last year. While the military frequently releases such data, it has been more difficult to track suicide information on veterans once they've left active duty.
The VA calculated the numbers using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers from 16 states. In 2005, the rate per 100,000 veterans among men ages 18-29 was 44.99, compared with 56.77 in 2007, the VA said. It did not release data for other population groups.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_vet_suicide_011110/
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