No Greater Love the Film After Chaplain Carried a Camera

Film shows Army chaplain’s journey with the 101st in combat
Clarksville Now
Yesterday in Lifestyle, Military

By Atlas House Productions

AFGHANISTAN – Active Duty U. S. Army Chaplain Captain Justin David Roberts has added one more credential to his Curriculum Vitae: Film Director.

No Greater Love is a feature-length documentary film that tells his story as an infantry chaplain deployed to Afghanistan in 2010-2011 with the legendary NO SLACK battalion of the 101st Airborne, where he spent most of his time on missions with his soldiers.

This is not a common duty for a chaplain since they don’t typically carry weapons.

Roberts had a sincere desire to serve infantry soldiers after interning at Brooke Army Medical Center while in graduate school.

“I absolutely wanted to serve these guys, wherever they’re at, I wanted to go and I wanted to be their chaplain,” he said.

That combat deployment was Chaplain Roberts’ first deployment and it was a rough one for the 800-man battalion. They came home with more than 200 purple hearts and 18 made the ultimate sacrifice.

Roberts’ combat footage is layered with honest, heartfelt interviews with the soldiers of No Slack and the families of the fallen.

This footage was not shot on training missions but in actual combat in Kunar Province, Afghanistan from 2010-2011. The interviews tell stories from the hearts of the soldiers – the true cost of war. 

“This film is about what we fought for, and what our crew worked for,” said No Slack Sergeant Bob Evans, Infantryman and No Greater Love Production Assistant.
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Fisher House Orlando VA Gets Huge Donation with a KISS

Went to Rock and Brews in Oviedo to see how many people showed up for the event today.  It was packed!

There was a huge check given to Fisher House by KISS for their new development at the Orlando VA opening in Lake Nona. 105.9 FM SUNNY was there blasting great music too.

Paco hangs out with Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons

From Sunny 105.9 FM

From Wounded Times

(No these are not members of KISS)

I checked to see what reports have come out, but so far, nada. Will update later.

Disabled Veteran with PTSD Humiliated at Atlanta VA Hospital

U.S. veteran left with weeks-long erection after given sleep medication at VA Hospital: attorney 
Edward Stalling was not only left impotent but a laughingstock among doctors at the Atlanta VA Medical Center after taking a single day’s dosage of antidepressant Trazodone in October, his attorney told the Daily News.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BY NINA GOLGOWSKI
Monday, January 5, 2015

Trazodone, according to Weill Cornell Medical College's Department of Urology, has an "uncommon side-effect of prolonged erection" that occurs in approximately one out of 10,000 to 20,000 users.

A U.S. veteran being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was instead left with a weeks-long erection after prescribed a sleep aid by a VA Hospital, his attorney claims.

A single dosage of antidepressant Trazodone in October was enough to not only "disfigure" Edward Stalling but leave him completely impotent and a laughingstock among the doctors and nurses at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, his attorney told the Daily News.

"They treated him as some kind of spectacle to be viewed," Attorney Jonathan Johnson said of the former service member's treatment.

"One had mentioned that I should line up all the women," Stalling recalled a doctor's alleged jest to CBS46. "I haven't had that many people who had seen it in my whole life, until I went to that hospital."
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San Francisco Suicide by Cop Left Note of Apology to Officers

Man shot by San Francisco officers left suicide notes 
Jan 5th 2015

This Jan. 4, 2015 photo shows police investigators on Valencia Street after an officer-involved shooting at the San Francisco Police Mission Station in San Francisco. Officers shot and killed a man who brandished what appeared to be a handgun but was actually an air gun after they told him to leave a restricted parking lot outside a San Francisco police station on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015.
(AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Carlos Avila Gonzalez)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man who was shot and killed by San Francisco police officers left behind several suicide notes in his cellphone, including one addressed to police, authorities said Monday. Officers shot Matthew Hoffman, 32, Sunday evening after he entered a restricted parking lot at a police station and brandished what appeared to be a handgun. It was actually an air gun, which fires small projectiles such as pellets or BBs. San Francisco police made public a note titled

"Dear Officer(s)" with the permission of Hoffman's father, authorities said in a statement. In the note, Hoffman, 32, said the officers "ended the life of a man who was too much of a coward to do it himself."

"Please, don't blame yourself. I used you. I took advantage of you," Hoffman added. Hoffman was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where he later died of his wounds. The officers were not injured.

The air gun did not have a colored tip on it, which is a standard identifier of a toy gun, Officer Gordon Shyy said Monday. He declined to discuss any other details of the case.
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Two NYPD Officers Shot Responding to Robbery

2 Officers Responding to Robbery Call Shot in Bronx: NYPD
NBC New York
Tuesday, Jan 6, 2015
 Updated at 5:15 AM EST

Two NYPD officers responding to a robbery call were shot in the Bronx late Monday night, police and law enforcement sources say.

A 30-year-old officer was shot in the arm and lower back, and a 38-year-old officer was shot in the chest and arm near East 184th Street and Tiebout Avenue in the Fordham section shortly after 10:30 p.m., officials said at an early morning news conference.

The unidentified officers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where they are in critical but stable condition, and are expected to recover, the NYPD said.
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