Judge orders military to stop discharging gays
Landmark ruling says government's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy must end
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal judge Tuesday ordered the government to immediately stop discharges of gay service members under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips found the policy unconstitutional in September. On Tuesday, she rejected an Obama administration request to delay an injunction and ordered enforcement of the policy permanently stopped.
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Judge orders military to stop discharging gays
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Female Fort Bragg soldier's funeral services
Police, family say Belding area soldier took her own life
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NORTH CAROLINA -- Services are pending for Army Sgt. Amanda Sheldon of the Belding area, who police and family members confirm took her own life in her off-campus home near Fort Bragg.
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NORTH CAROLINA -- Services are pending for Army Sgt. Amanda Sheldon of the Belding area, who police and family members confirm took her own life in her off-campus home near Fort Bragg.
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Alleged Ft. Hood attacker to face survivors at hearing
Hasan managed to do a lot more damage to the soldiers at Fort Hood than bullets from guns ever could. He is still called “accused” because he has not had a trial yet, but the facts of what happened at Fort Hood show that he was the one pulling the trigger.
Hasan was not a known enemy to the soldiers at Fort Hood but it was clear that others knew all about what he thought and how he felt. This man was still allowed to be in a position of authority as a Major and psychologist. All that was known about Hasan by his superiors came out and provided the soldiers with a sense of deadly betrayal. How could someone like him be allowed to not only serve with them but be in any kind of position dealing with their mental health?
PTSD is caused by traumatic events, yet with the increase risk of repeated deployments, the strain on families and increase in drug, alcohol and even medication abuse, the chain of command put someone like Hasan involved in mental healthcare. This did more damage to the emotions of the soldiers and their families than the enemy ever could. Fort Hood was their home and was invaded by an enemy who looked just like them, lived with them and worked with them. This was supposed to be their safe zone, where their families were supposed to be safe back home while they were deployed. This was where they were supposed to be able to stand down without weapons and without threat. Hasan took all of that away but the people over him, promoting him instead of giving him a dishonorable discharge were also responsible for what happened at Fort Hood and what has come since then.
Military suicides continue to climb but at Fort Hood, it’s only gotten worse no matter what they try to do and if anyone thinks this horrific event last year did not contribute to it, they know very little about human nature.
Alleged Ft. Hood attacker to face survivors at hearing
Maj. Nidal Hasan is accused of killing 13 in worst mass shooting at an American military base
FORT HOOD, Texas — Witnesses to a gunman's rampage at Fort Hood will begin describing the attack for a military officer Tuesday, providing new details about the scene that unfolded nearly a year ago in a processing center where soldiers were making final preparations to deploy.
The Article 32 hearing involving Maj. Nidal Hasan is expected to last at least three weeks and will determine whether there is enough evidence to put the Army psychiatrist on trial. Such hearings are unique to military court, where prosecutors and the defense can call witnesses, and both sides are able to question them and present other evidence.
Hasan, 40, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 attack, which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. It was the worst mass shooting at an American military base.
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Alleged Ft. Hood attacker to face survivors at hearing
Despite Army efforts, soldier suicides continue
James C McKinley Jr, New York Times, Updated: October 11, 2010 19:30 IST
Fort Hood (Texas): At 3:30 a.m. on a Saturday in August, Specialist Armando G. Aguilar Jr. found himself at the end of his short life. He was standing, drunk and weepy, in the parking lot of a Valero station outside Waco, Tex. He had jumped out of his moving pickup. There was a police officer talking to him in frantic tones. Specialist Aguilar held a pistol pointed at his head.
This moment had been a long time coming, his family said. He had twice tried to commit suicide with pills since returning from a tough tour in Iraq a year earlier, where his job was to drive an armored vehicle to search for bombs.
Army doctors had put him on medications for depression, insomnia, nightmares and panic attacks. Specialist Aguilar was seeing an Army therapist every week. But he had been getting worse in the days before his death, his parents said, seeing shadowy figures that were not there, hallucinating that he heard loud noises outside his trailer home.
"He wanted help -- he was out there asking for help," said his father, Armando Aguilar Sr. "He just snapped. He couldn't control what he was doing no more."
Specialist Aguilar was one of 20 soldiers connected to Fort Hood who are believed to have committed suicide this year. The Army has confirmed 14 of those, and is completing the official investigations of six other soldiers who appear to have taken their own lives -- four of them in one week in September. The deaths have made this the worst year at the sprawling fort since the military began keeping track in 2003.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Hearing set to begin into Ft. Hood shootings
Hearing set to begin into Ft. Hood shootings
The procedure, which will last several weeks and be open to the public, is intended to help the Army decide whether it can court-martial Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused in 13 deaths.
By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau
October 11, 2010
Reporting from Washington — Alma Nemelka said her nephew was the first to die. He was standing at the rear of the Soldier Readiness Center at Ft. Hood, Texas, when an Army officer burst in shouting, "Allahu akbar!'' Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19 and soon to be deployed to the Middle East, was shot in the head.
On Tuesday, the man accused of killing Nemelka and 12 others, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan of the Army Medical Corps, will appear for his first broad military hearing into the November attack. Hasan, a U.S.-born Muslim and Army psychiatrist, was shot during the incident and is paralyzed from the waist down.
The hearing, formally called an Article 32 proceeding, is expected to span four to six weeks. Akin to a grand jury hearing but open to the public, it is designed to help the top Army commander at Ft. Hood determine whether there is enough evidence to court-martial Hasan, 40, who could face a death sentence.
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Dealing with vets’ invisible wounds
Dealing with vets’ invisible wounds
01:00 AM EDT on Monday, October 11, 2010
By Katie mulvanEY
Journal Staff writer
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island Representatives Patrick J. Kennedy and James R. Langevin will bring together law-enforcement officials, veterans, judges, military advocates and health-care experts this month for a roundtable discussion of the state’s efforts to help veterans recover from what they describe as the “invisible” wounds of war.
The group will explore avenues in which qualified veterans may receive treatment for substance-abuse issues and neurological disorders through Veterans Administration health care, as an alternative to the criminal justice system, according to Kennedy’s office.
Set for 4 p.m., Oct. 25, at the Rhode Island National Guard facility in Cranston, its participants will include Craig Stenning, director of the state Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals; Ashbel T. Wall II, director of the Department of Corrections; Deputy Attorney General Gerald J. Coyne; District Court Chief Judge Jeanne E. LaFazia; and Daniel Evangelista, the state’s commandant for veterans affairs, Kennedy’s office said.
The effort is in cooperation with the Rhode Island National Guard and the Municipal Police Academy.
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Dealing with vets invisible wounds
01:00 AM EDT on Monday, October 11, 2010
By Katie mulvanEY
Journal Staff writer
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island Representatives Patrick J. Kennedy and James R. Langevin will bring together law-enforcement officials, veterans, judges, military advocates and health-care experts this month for a roundtable discussion of the state’s efforts to help veterans recover from what they describe as the “invisible” wounds of war.
The group will explore avenues in which qualified veterans may receive treatment for substance-abuse issues and neurological disorders through Veterans Administration health care, as an alternative to the criminal justice system, according to Kennedy’s office.
Set for 4 p.m., Oct. 25, at the Rhode Island National Guard facility in Cranston, its participants will include Craig Stenning, director of the state Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals; Ashbel T. Wall II, director of the Department of Corrections; Deputy Attorney General Gerald J. Coyne; District Court Chief Judge Jeanne E. LaFazia; and Daniel Evangelista, the state’s commandant for veterans affairs, Kennedy’s office said.
The effort is in cooperation with the Rhode Island National Guard and the Municipal Police Academy.
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Veteran Shares Battle With PTSD
He could have come home and kept his suffering a secret but guys like him are saving lives because they wanted to give a voice to others who are unable or unwilling to talk.
Veteran Shares Battle With PTSD
By: Jeff Stensland
jstensland@wsiltv.com
MARION -- A local veteran hopes his battle with post traumatic stress disorder will prompt other soldiers to get help. This past Thursday marked nine years from the start of the Afghanistan war, Operation: Enduring Freedom, making it the longest war in our nation's history.
Today's battlefield has few boundaries, making it hard for veterans to adjust to home life. Illinois National Guard Sergeant First Class Randy Adams has served his country for 29 years, but his tour in Afghanistan last year changed him.
"You don't know who the combatants are--the insurgents blend with the civilian population, so you don't know who you are fighting," Adams said.
Adams says everywhere he goes, he sees potential threats. He rarely leaves his home. It has put a strain on his marriage to wife, Sharon.
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Veteran Shares Battle With PTSD
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Film gives Vietnam veterans a voice
Film gives Vietnam veterans a voice
By Lisa Roose-Church • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • October 10, 2010
Vietnam veterans fought on a battlefield as brutal and deadly as most wars in history, but their story "is met with angst and controversy," and a local film producer is giving them a voice.
"Our Vietnam Generation," produced by Visionalist Entertainment Productions, will premiere Jan. 28 at Detroit's Fox Theatre, and featured among its frames is the story of Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte and businessman John Colone, the unofficial mayor of Hell.
"Vietnam veterans fought in the most controversial and longest wars," director Keith Famie of Visionalist said. "They are the leaders of our community. ... So much of our society has no clue of what they did when they were younger. They are very humble."
The documentary focuses on struggles experienced by Michigan Vietnam veterans, who received a much different homecoming than other generations, said Famie, a nine-time Emmy winner.
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By Lisa Roose-Church • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • October 10, 2010
Vietnam veterans fought on a battlefield as brutal and deadly as most wars in history, but their story "is met with angst and controversy," and a local film producer is giving them a voice.
"Our Vietnam Generation," produced by Visionalist Entertainment Productions, will premiere Jan. 28 at Detroit's Fox Theatre, and featured among its frames is the story of Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte and businessman John Colone, the unofficial mayor of Hell.
"Vietnam veterans fought in the most controversial and longest wars," director Keith Famie of Visionalist said. "They are the leaders of our community. ... So much of our society has no clue of what they did when they were younger. They are very humble."
The documentary focuses on struggles experienced by Michigan Vietnam veterans, who received a much different homecoming than other generations, said Famie, a nine-time Emmy winner.
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North Miami Beach sailor killed in Afghanistan
NORTH MIAMI BEACH | CASUALTY IN WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Navy sailor's medical school dreams end with deadly blast in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Department of Defense identified a North Miami Beach sailor Sunday as a casualty in the war in Afghanistan.
By MIAMI HERALD STAFF
U.S. Navy sailor Edwin Gonzalez's friends called him Superman. He liked the idea so much he had a five-inch "S'' tattooed on his chest.
"It was because he was always getting in accidents and coming out fine," said Claudia Herrera, a former classmate of Gonzalez, of North Miami Beach.
"He was hit by cars twice and came out without a scratch," said Victor Medina, another friend.
On Friday, Gonzalez, 22, a newlywed, was killed when a roadside bomb exploded during combat operations in the Helmand Province, Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense reported Sunday.
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Sailor from North Miami Beach killed in Afghanistan
U.S. Navy sailor's medical school dreams end with deadly blast in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Department of Defense identified a North Miami Beach sailor Sunday as a casualty in the war in Afghanistan.
By MIAMI HERALD STAFF
U.S. Navy sailor Edwin Gonzalez's friends called him Superman. He liked the idea so much he had a five-inch "S'' tattooed on his chest.
"It was because he was always getting in accidents and coming out fine," said Claudia Herrera, a former classmate of Gonzalez, of North Miami Beach.
"He was hit by cars twice and came out without a scratch," said Victor Medina, another friend.
On Friday, Gonzalez, 22, a newlywed, was killed when a roadside bomb exploded during combat operations in the Helmand Province, Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense reported Sunday.
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Sailor from North Miami Beach killed in Afghanistan
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Police need help finding man with PTSD missing in Kansas City
Police Search for Missing Man Suffering from PTSD
Posted by Sarah Clark, Web Producer
1:33 PM CDT, October 8, 2010
KANSAS CITY, MO - Police and family are looking for Aaron Stafos, 24, who has not been seen since Oct. 6 around 10:30 a.m. Police said Stafos has PTSD and is delusional.
Stafos was last seen leaving the 6000 block of N. Lenox in a red Ford pickup truck with an unknown license. Stafos was last seen wearing a brown cowboy shirt and black pants. He is six feet tall, weighs 175 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone who can help locate Stafos is asked to notify Missing Persons at (816) 234-5136.
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Salem minister takes on military suicides
Will the military ever get it? This isn't about fundamentalist or evangelists out there trying to put butts in the pews. This is about the relationship between faith and healing. While there are many Christians taking different walks with many different denominations, this isn't about one branch of the tree over another. This isn't about one faith over another. This is about addressing the spiritual connections to PTSD. It is caused by an outside force and follows after traumatic events. It hits the emotional part of the brain causing a chain of changes in how the mind works. Since it is an assault against that part of the brain, it only makes sense to address it for what it is and that requires spiritual help above all else. Yes, I said that. Medication is usually needed to alter the chemicals of the brain back to normal levels. Depending on how much time between event and seeking medical care has passed, much of what PTSD does can be reversed with the proper care. That comes with treating the whole person. Mind, body and soul need to be equally treated.
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Here is a video of a Staff Sgt. talking about PTSD, suicide and healing with Point Man Ministries. I want you to know how this ended up on YouTube.
I was invited to speak at the Point Man Ministries Conference in Buffalo. I brought my camera just in case I had the opportunity to film. I filmed the band that was playing when this Staff Sgt. got up to the microphone. I kept filming. After I told him that I had him on tape and asked what he wanted me to do with the tape. I thought he may want to just get a copy of it and that would be the end of it but he told me that he wanted it out there. He knew it would save some lives. I didn't shoot it as a professional. I left my tripod at home. I didn't focus or stabilize the shoot. I just let it roll. When I loaded it, what he said, how he said it and the emotion behind it replaced anything that all the normal routines could have provided.
He talked about how he went home one night with a gun in his hand and sat in his room with the barrel in his mouth. He talked about his wife and her love for him. Above all, he talked about how faith has begun to heal his soul and that he is forgiven for whatever he has done. He was a leader of men in battle and now he leads them in a battle to save their lives from the enemy embedded within their souls.
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October 9, 2010
Salem minister takes on military suicides
By Tom Dalton
Staff writer
SALEM — The Rev. Laura Biddle, the minister of Tabernacle Church, flew to Washington, D.C., this week to take part in a conference on a silent and often concealed killer within the U.S. military — suicides.
The number of military personnel, many recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have taken their own lives is nearly epidemic. There were 309 suicides last year and more than 1,100 over the past five years, according to a Defense Department task force.
"It's staggering," Biddle said. "The numbers are staggering. It's staggering because we didn't even know it existed."
Biddle is the spiritual advisor to a suicide outreach and education program run by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that assists anyone who has "suffered the loss of a military loved one."
Biddle's first encounter with military suicides occurred five years ago when she was a minister in Newburyport. She served as a spiritual counselor to a member of her congregation, Kim Ruocco of Newbury, whose husband, U.S. Marine Maj. John Ruocco, a decorated helicopter pilot, hanged himself in a hotel room near Camp Pendleton, Calif. He had just returned from Iraq and was preparing for another tour.read more here
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Suicidal soldiers are humiliated by superiors with fatal results,
military medical experts say
BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAUFriday, October 8th 2010, 4:00 AM
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WASHINGTON - Depressed soldiers who seek help for suicidal thoughts have been publicly mocked by higherups, military medical experts told the Daily News.The bullying involves "humiliating-type behavior in ranks, formations, where soldiers were singled out and identified as someone who is suicidal, publicly ridiculed, and things along that nature," said Army Maj. Gen. Philip Volpe."They call a person out in front of a formation and chew 'em out" in a misguided effort at "tough love," said Bonnie Carroll, a retired Air Force major and head of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. "They tell them, 'You dishonored your unit. You're worthless.'"Volpe, who with Carroll led the Pentagon's suicide-prevention task force, said he has witnessed bullying - and in one case relieved a lieutenant colonel who was verbally abusing a distraught soldier.As military suicide rates continue to rise as a result of multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army and the other services have struggled to erase the longstanding stigma of seeking professional help.
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Here is a video of a Staff Sgt. talking about PTSD, suicide and healing with Point Man Ministries. I want you to know how this ended up on YouTube.
I was invited to speak at the Point Man Ministries Conference in Buffalo. I brought my camera just in case I had the opportunity to film. I filmed the band that was playing when this Staff Sgt. got up to the microphone. I kept filming. After I told him that I had him on tape and asked what he wanted me to do with the tape. I thought he may want to just get a copy of it and that would be the end of it but he told me that he wanted it out there. He knew it would save some lives. I didn't shoot it as a professional. I left my tripod at home. I didn't focus or stabilize the shoot. I just let it roll. When I loaded it, what he said, how he said it and the emotion behind it replaced anything that all the normal routines could have provided.
He talked about how he went home one night with a gun in his hand and sat in his room with the barrel in his mouth. He talked about his wife and her love for him. Above all, he talked about how faith has begun to heal his soul and that he is forgiven for whatever he has done. He was a leader of men in battle and now he leads them in a battle to save their lives from the enemy embedded within their souls.
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Some Veterans Fall Through Huge Cracks
The VA is faster than the DOD? This is an example of what is going on. The Army wanted this disabled veteran to redeploy. That screams no one was ready to take care of the wounded before they were sent. He was wounded in 2005 but two years later the Army wanted him to go back!
Some Veterans Fall Through Huge Cracks
One St. Louis veteran, badly injured in 2005, has yet to get benefits.
By PHILIP O'CONNOR
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Published: Friday, October 8, 2010 at 6:46 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 8, 2010 at 6:46 p.m.
ST. LOUIS | Army Reserve Spc. Michael Pyatt mounted a machine gun on the turret of his Humvee in August 2005 for another mission into the volatile city of Hillah, Iraq. As he stepped off the bumper, he landed awkwardly, injuring his hip and back, and leaving him crippled.
Back home, he asked for a medical discharge.
In July 2007, his unit tried to deploy him a second time, even though he wore a knee brace and used a cane.
Just months later, the Department of Veterans Affairs declared Pyatt permanently and totally disabled. Yet today, more than five years after he was hurt, the Army still has not declared Pyatt unfit for duty, which would make him eligible for disability retirement pay and medical insurance for his wife and daughter.
Pyatt, 38, struggles to get by. He is deep in debt and must make frequent trips from his home in Bonne Terre for free treatment at VA facilities in St. Louis.
"I've fallen through the cracks," he said. "I've been abandoned."
Pyatt's story is an example of a military disability system that Congress and others contend is woefully unprepared to deal with the hundreds of thousands of troops injured while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.read more here
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Wounded Vietnam veteran devoted to others
Wounded veteran devoted to others
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Oct 08, 2010 21:24 EST
By ENELLY BETANCOURT, Staff Writer
For hundreds of thousands of veterans who have not been able to leave the horrors of war on the battlefield, life at home is a nightmarish rollercoaster.
Lewis Alston is a living testament to that. He brought the war home and re-lived it every day, for 15 years.
Alston, 59, fought in the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1971 as a corporal with the 1st Marine Division.
As a reconnaissance scout, he saw combat action and witnessed severe human suffering.
On the battlefield, he was wounded by shrapnel that hit his chest and legs.
Also, he lost his father during that time.
But his biggest wounds were psychological: the rage, the flashbacks, the sleeplessness.
"I had a hard time separating the war from the warrior," Alston said.
Alston returned from his combat service angry, distrustful and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
"I became a terrible person," he said. "My family wanted nothing to do with me."
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Oct 08, 2010 21:24 EST
By ENELLY BETANCOURT, Staff Writer
"I'm just a veteran helping veterans get out of the cave I was once in," he said.
For hundreds of thousands of veterans who have not been able to leave the horrors of war on the battlefield, life at home is a nightmarish rollercoaster.
Lewis Alston is a living testament to that. He brought the war home and re-lived it every day, for 15 years.
Alston, 59, fought in the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1971 as a corporal with the 1st Marine Division.
As a reconnaissance scout, he saw combat action and witnessed severe human suffering.
On the battlefield, he was wounded by shrapnel that hit his chest and legs.
Also, he lost his father during that time.
But his biggest wounds were psychological: the rage, the flashbacks, the sleeplessness.
"I had a hard time separating the war from the warrior," Alston said.
Alston returned from his combat service angry, distrustful and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
"I became a terrible person," he said. "My family wanted nothing to do with me."
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UK Soldiers return home hours after soldier killed in Afghanistan
Joy and sadness blended together. This must be very hard on them and their families.
Heroes return home from Afghanistan
Published on Sat Oct 09 11:30:39 BST 2010
It was a bittersweet homecoming for Lancashire’s heroes as they returned home from Afghanistan just hours after one of their colleagues was killed in an explosion.
Around 75 soldiers from the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster’s regiment arrived home at their Catterick, North Yorkshire, base yesterday after a gruelling six month tour, in which time they lost three of their own.
But celebrations were tempered when the news went round the Garrison that a soldier from 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment had died in Afghanistan that very day.
The soldier, attached to 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, serving as part of Combined Force Nahr-e Saraj (South), was killed in an explosion in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province.
Dozens of families, many from Preston and the surrounding areas, had made the trip to Catterick to show their support for the battle-scarred soldiers.
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Heroes return home from Afghanistan
Friday, October 8, 2010
Cracks in Vietnam Veterans Memorial stump scientists
Cracks in Vietnam Veterans Memorial stump scientists
A team of scientists has been hired to inspect newly discovered vertical cracks in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund announced.
Geophysicists Dorothy Richter and Gene Simmons will be at the site today to continue their evaluation and hope to release a report in a few weeks.
It's possible heat is to blame for the cracks, but Richter told The Washington Post the experts "do not know with certainty" what caused them. Most are small, and the Memorial Fund says they're not an immediate threat to the memorial.
In fact, as the Post points out, the wall has a history of cracks that dates back to 1984, just two years after it was opened to the public. Those cracks were horizontal, and in 1986, two of the wall's 144 slabs were taken out and studied.
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Sgt. Eric Walker, Marine of the Year
Lexington Marine Receives Top Award
WTVQ
WRITTEN BY JACQUELINE SPRAGUE
THURSDAY, 07 OCTOBER 2010 23:44
Sergeant Eric Walker put his life on the line to save an injured fellow Marine. The 30-year-old was honored for those brave actions tonight in the nation's capitol. His parents went with him to Washington DC, the rest of his family back stayed here in Lexington but were still able to watch the ceremony live online. They say now the entire nation can see that he's a hero. Sgt. Walker was named USO Marine of the Year.
WTVQ
WRITTEN BY JACQUELINE SPRAGUE
THURSDAY, 07 OCTOBER 2010 23:44
Sergeant Eric Walker put his life on the line to save an injured fellow Marine. The 30-year-old was honored for those brave actions tonight in the nation's capitol. His parents went with him to Washington DC, the rest of his family back stayed here in Lexington but were still able to watch the ceremony live online. They say now the entire nation can see that he's a hero. Sgt. Walker was named USO Marine of the Year.
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