Florida National Guard members returning home from Kuwait and Iraq
2,500 from 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team due to return home by late December
By Henry Pierson Curtis, Orlando Sentinel
6:48 p.m. EST, November 28, 2010
Arriving before dawn, a contingent of the Florida National Guard's 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team arrived in South Georgia on Sunday after serving much of the year in Kuwait and Iraq.
Returning soldiers called out their hometowns — Orlando, Tampa, Tallahassee — as they walked from a chartered jet at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah.
Carrying backpacks and rifles, the 150 men and women on the flight were the first of 2,500 members of the unit scheduled to return home by late December, said Lt. Col. Ron Tittle.
"Most were responsible for security operations in Kuwait and escorting convoys into Iraq," said Tittle, who filmed Sunday's return for the National Guard's Facebook page. "The plan is to get them all home before Christmas Eve."
Most of the returning soldiers were heading to military schools after a "Welcome Home" ceremony and five-day demobilization at Fort Stewart in southern Georgia. They were mobilized in January when the unit left Florida for training at Fort Hood in Texas before flying to Kuwait in March, according to the National Guard.
Two members of the unit died during the year.
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Florida National Guard members returning home
Sunday, November 28, 2010
For some homeless vets, life on the street easier than going to the VA
This is a very twisted country at times. The same people saying we are a "Christian" nation complain about people being lazy, wanting to live on the streets, eat in soup kitchens, beg for spare change and suffer harsh weather along with harsher stares. It matters not to them how these people became homeless or that this group of our own people arrived living under the stars after they served the stars on the flag of this nation. To the "chosen of God" believing that they have all they have because God thought they were worthy and everyone is deserving of being a wretched soul suffering, they should be thankful they do not receive what they deserve when they turn their backs on our veterans.
Christ said there is no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for the sake of his friends, and this these men and women were willing to do, yet we leave them like trash on the street. We always want someone else to get them out of our site so that our eyes no longer have to see them, walk past their hands reaching out for some spare change and far enough away from them so that we can't smell their dirty clothes. After all they ruin our day when we have shopping to do to celebrate the birth of the Holy Child Christ on Christmas. We have sales to spend our money on and paying attention to the way they live may cut into our happiness when we buy ourselves a much deserved gift for ourselves. We can manage to think of someone we HAVE to buy a gift for as we search for the cheapest price then act as if their happiness was all that mattered when they open it but we can't manage to do anything else Christ talked about. After all, this is Christmas so what He said, what He preached, has absolutely nothing to do with our homeless people any more than it has to do with our homeless veterans.
Is is much was given to them as soldiers in terms of chow, clothing, shelter and weapons when they served so now they should ask nothing more of us? Is it that they were given so much bravery so they should pick themselves up by their "bootstraps" and get another job now that they cannot do their job as a soldier? Hmm, maybe it is the part about beaten that allows us to walk away? Or, dread the thought, much was given to us if we are rich and have plenty and we are supposed to share, take care of the poor and needy the way Christ preached?
Last night I was with a church group on a bus and was talking to a young man with much love and potential. We were talking about the people who believe they were chosen to be wealthy because God thought they deserved it. They take that attitude and believe that the poor were chosen to be poor because God thought they deserved to suffer. They never stop to think about Christ coming into this world as a child of poor parents, how He was homeless, depending on the kindness of strangers for Him and His 12 friends as they traveled to spread the good news about God's love for them or how He found more value in a poor widow's two cents than the tiny portion of a rich man's wealth. They have short term memory loss because most Sunday's there is a bit of preaching going on about love, compassion, charity and giving someone hope but they forget about it when it comes to the poor.
For them they won't read something like this because they already made up their minds that our homeless and especially our homeless veterans want to be that way.
The truth is most of them wouldn't be on the streets if they didn't serve this country. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused most of what they ended up losing but we see a drunk or a drug addict. They used to wear a uniform but we see worn out dirty clothes. Their lives used to matter when it was time for someone to go to some strange country and fight our battles but they outlived their usefulness long enough to become a burden to polite society with shopping to do for Christmas.
They have been beaten down and our appreciation wore out as soon as they got back home. When they would rather live on the street than stand in line at the VA, it shows just how twisted this country has become but no one else noticed but them. The part that should shock all of us is that no matter how we treated them, they do not regret risking their lives for us and would do it all again for our sake. They were given the "greater love" allowing them to be willing to lay down their lives, but that love was never returned to them by the rest of us.
When you read this, it gives a clear message about those who have plenty and those who have nothing.
Jesus talked a lot about the poor and needy. He had no patience for the greedy rich or for those who did not see their wealth as something to be shared with others.
Maybe this Christmas as you go shopping to buy things for others and yourself, you can think of what this season of love is supposed to mean and try to live up to the Son who was born in a town called Bethlehem.
Christ said there is no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for the sake of his friends, and this these men and women were willing to do, yet we leave them like trash on the street. We always want someone else to get them out of our site so that our eyes no longer have to see them, walk past their hands reaching out for some spare change and far enough away from them so that we can't smell their dirty clothes. After all they ruin our day when we have shopping to do to celebrate the birth of the Holy Child Christ on Christmas. We have sales to spend our money on and paying attention to the way they live may cut into our happiness when we buy ourselves a much deserved gift for ourselves. We can manage to think of someone we HAVE to buy a gift for as we search for the cheapest price then act as if their happiness was all that mattered when they open it but we can't manage to do anything else Christ talked about. After all, this is Christmas so what He said, what He preached, has absolutely nothing to do with our homeless people any more than it has to do with our homeless veterans.
Luke 12
48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Is is much was given to them as soldiers in terms of chow, clothing, shelter and weapons when they served so now they should ask nothing more of us? Is it that they were given so much bravery so they should pick themselves up by their "bootstraps" and get another job now that they cannot do their job as a soldier? Hmm, maybe it is the part about beaten that allows us to walk away? Or, dread the thought, much was given to us if we are rich and have plenty and we are supposed to share, take care of the poor and needy the way Christ preached?
Last night I was with a church group on a bus and was talking to a young man with much love and potential. We were talking about the people who believe they were chosen to be wealthy because God thought they deserved it. They take that attitude and believe that the poor were chosen to be poor because God thought they deserved to suffer. They never stop to think about Christ coming into this world as a child of poor parents, how He was homeless, depending on the kindness of strangers for Him and His 12 friends as they traveled to spread the good news about God's love for them or how He found more value in a poor widow's two cents than the tiny portion of a rich man's wealth. They have short term memory loss because most Sunday's there is a bit of preaching going on about love, compassion, charity and giving someone hope but they forget about it when it comes to the poor.
For them they won't read something like this because they already made up their minds that our homeless and especially our homeless veterans want to be that way.
The truth is most of them wouldn't be on the streets if they didn't serve this country. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused most of what they ended up losing but we see a drunk or a drug addict. They used to wear a uniform but we see worn out dirty clothes. Their lives used to matter when it was time for someone to go to some strange country and fight our battles but they outlived their usefulness long enough to become a burden to polite society with shopping to do for Christmas.
They have been beaten down and our appreciation wore out as soon as they got back home. When they would rather live on the street than stand in line at the VA, it shows just how twisted this country has become but no one else noticed but them. The part that should shock all of us is that no matter how we treated them, they do not regret risking their lives for us and would do it all again for our sake. They were given the "greater love" allowing them to be willing to lay down their lives, but that love was never returned to them by the rest of us.
Their mission: rescue vets from the streets
Los Angeles Times
A nonprofit sends a crew out to feed, befriend and console soldiers and sometimes talk them into housing. The group also runs a crisis hotline and bushwhacks through bureaucratic jungles for weary vets.
By Steve Lopez
November 27, 2010|7:47 p.m.
Out near LAX, a dozen military veterans man a war room, strategizing day and night. Their mission is to bring other vets in off the ledge, to gather them up from the streets and shake the dust off them.
With a budget of just half a million dollars a year, the team of "wild cowboys" is intent on saving lives, says the general of the nonprofit National Veterans Foundation -- an Alabama-raised, Lebanese Catholic Vietnam vet named Floyd "Shad" Meshad.
Meshad used to have a big job at the West L.A. Veterans Affairs complex, but he's a guy with no patience for bureaucracy, so he had to get out, way back in the 1980s, and start his own thing.
His outfit runs a crisis hotline and bushwhacks through bureaucratic jungles for weary vets. Twice a week, his crew heads out to Venice, Hollywood and skid row in a big white van stocked with provisions, fishing for soldiers sleeping on cold pavement and in damp ivy beds. They feed them, befriend them, console them and sometimes talk them into housing.
"I'm going through a lot of depression," Vietnam vet Vince Sylvester recently told Meshad's platoon at a park in Hollywood, saying he still hasn't gotten over the loss of a combat buddy who died "in my arms."
Sylvester said he was shot in both legs in Vietnam and had been homeless for three years until getting an apartment three months ago. He won't go to the VA unless he has to, Sylvester said. It's too much of a runaround.
On Hollywood Boulevard, Vietnam vet Rex Baker leaned on a cane as he panhandled. He said he'd been homeless for four years, but wouldn't dream of going to the VA and standing in line for services.
Meshad and his staff get this all the time. For a lot of soldiers, going to the VA is less appealing than going back to boot camp, even after they finally admit they need help.
It's not that the VA doesn't have good people doing great work, Meshad said, and he applauds the vow by agency chief Eric Shinseki to bring all homeless veterans in from the cold in five years.
The problem, as Meshad sees it, is that the VA is too big, too bureaucratic and too overwhelmed. And we haven't yet hit the anticipated wave of banged-up vets coming off multiple combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Their mission: rescue vets from the streets
When you read this, it gives a clear message about those who have plenty and those who have nothing.
Luke 12
The Parable of the Rich Fool
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
Jesus talked a lot about the poor and needy. He had no patience for the greedy rich or for those who did not see their wealth as something to be shared with others.
Maybe this Christmas as you go shopping to buy things for others and yourself, you can think of what this season of love is supposed to mean and try to live up to the Son who was born in a town called Bethlehem.
Disabled Veterans Forced to Rely on Parents for Caregiver Duties
Disabled Veterans Forced to Rely on Parents for Caregiver Duties
Nov 27, 2010 Mary King
As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue, more and more American soldiers are surviving impossible injuries as the result of improved medical treatment and state-of-the-art rehabilitation. At home, each seriously injured vet faces another kind of battle – a life filled with daily needs and unending challenges. Many of these young men and women won't be able to make it on their own without some kind of caregiver assistance. Who is going to care for them?
Caregivers for America's Disabled Military Men and Women
Who cares for the seriously-injured young soldier once he's home? Who picks up the pieces of a soldier's shattered life? How does a mother or father cope when a traumatically-injured son or daughter returns home from war with a diagnosis that could last a lifetime? It's time for America to wake up and recognize these injured soldiers and the unsung heroes of war – the mothers, fathers and other family relatives that respond to the call of caregiver.
Read more at Suite101: Disabled Veterans Forced to Rely on Parents for Caregiver Duties Disabled Veterans Forced to Rely on Parents
Which is why this bill is so important.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 05, 2010
Remarks by the President at Signing of
Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act
State Dining Room
1:29 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everyone. Danny Akaka, aloha. (Laughter.) Since the 9/11 attacks more than eight years ago, the United States has been a nation at war. In this time, millions of Americans have worn the uniform. More than a million have served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many have risked their lives. Many have given their lives. All are the very embodiment of service and patriotism. And as a grateful nation, humbled by their service, we can never honor these American heroes or their families enough.
Along with their loved ones, we give thanks every time our men and women in uniform return home. But we’re forever mindful that our obligations to our troops don’t end on the battlefield. Just as we have a responsibility to train and equip them when we send them into harm’s way, we have a responsibility to take care of them when they come home.
As Michelle and Dr. Biden have reminded us in all their visits to military bases and communities, our obligations must include a national commitment to inspiring military families —- the spouses and children who sacrifice as well.
We have a responsibility to veterans like Ted Wade, who joins us here today with his wonderful wife Sarah. We are so proud of both of them. Six years ago, Sergeant Wade was serving in the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq when his Humvee was struck by an IED, an improvised explosive device. He lost much of his right arm and suffered multiple injuries, including severe traumatic brain injury. He was in a coma for more than two months, and doctors said it was doubtful that he would survive.
But he did survive -- thanks to the care he received over many months and years, thanks to Ted’s indomitable spirit, and thanks to the incredible support from Sarah, who has been at his side during every step of a long and very difficult recovery. As I’ve said many times, our nation’s commitment to our veterans and their families —- to patriots like Ted and Sarah —- is a sacred trust, and upholding that trust is a moral obligation.
Since taking office, my administration -— in partnership with many -- the veterans organizations who are here today —- has worked to make sure that America fulfills this obligation. We’ve dramatically increased funding for veterans’ health care, including our wounded warriors, especially those with the signature wounds of today’s wars -— post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury. Under Secretary Ric Shinseki’s outstanding leadership, we’re building a 21st century VA, including budget reform to ensure predictable funding, and a historic increase in the VA budget.
But as we all know, keeping faith with our veterans and their families is work that is never truly finished. As a nation, as the beneficiaries of their service, there’s always more we can do and more that we must do. And that’s what we’re doing today, as I sign this important legislation —- the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act.
With this legislation, we’re expanding mental health counseling and services for our veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq, including our National Guardsmen and Reservists. We’re authorizing the VA to utilize hospitals and clinics outside the VA system to serve more wounded warriors like Ted with traumatic brain injury.
We’re increasing support to veterans in rural areas, with the transportation and housing they need to reach VA hospitals and clinics. We’re expanding and improving health care for our women’s veterans, to meet their unique needs, including maternity care for newborn children. And we’ll launch a pilot program to provide child care for veterans receiving intensive medical care.
We’re eliminating co-pays for veterans who are catastrophically disabled. And we’re expanding support to homeless veterans, because in the United States of America, no one who has served this nation in uniform should ever be living on the streets.
Finally, this legislation marks a major step forward in America’s commitment to families and caregivers who tend to our wounded warriors every day. They’re spouses like Sarah. They’re parents, once again caring for their sons and daughters. Sometimes they’re children helping to take care of their mom or dad.
These caregivers put their own lives on hold, their own careers and dreams aside, to care for a loved one. They do it every day, often around the clock. As Sarah can tell you, it’s hard physically and it’s hard emotionally. It’s certainly hard financially. And these tireless caregivers shouldn’t have to do it alone. As of today, they’ll be getting more of the help that they need.
If you’re like Sarah —- and caring for a severely injured veteran from Afghanistan or Iraq —- you’ll receive a stipend and other assistance, including lodging when you travel for your loved one’s treatment. If you need training to provide specialized services, you’ll get it. If you need counseling, you’ll receive it. If you don’t have health insurance, it will be provided. And if you need a break, it will be arranged —- up to 30 days of respite care each year.
So today is a victory for all the veterans’ organizations who fought for this legislation. It’s a tribute to those who led the fight in Congress, including Senator and World War II vet Danny Akaka, and Senator Richard Burr; and in the House, Representatives Mike Michaud and Bob Filner. And I thank all the members of Congress who are joining us here today.
Most of all, today is a victory for veterans like Ted and caregivers like Sarah, who, by the way, has become a passionate and very effective voice on behalf of wounded warriors and their families. Testifying before Congress, she said of her husband, “Just like he needed a team in the military to accomplish the mission, he needs a team at home in the longer war.”
So to Ted, and to Sarah, to all our veterans and your families, with this legislation we’re building a stronger team here at home that you need —- now and for the long road to recovery. And that’s why I’m very much looking forward to signing this legislation. Thank you. (Applause.)
(The bill is signed.)
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Lightning strike kills 7 at nursery school party in South Africa
Lightning strike kills 7 at nursery school party in South Africa
By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
November 27, 2010 6:56 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
30 people remain hospitalized with injuries
A 4-year-old child, two parents and two teachers are among the dead
A provincial spokeswoman says the lightning entered through a window
South Africa
(CNN) -- A lightning strike killed seven people -- including a 4-year-old child -- at a nursery school Christmas party in South Africa, a government spokeswoman said Saturday.
Forty others were injured when the lightning struck in KwaZulu-Natal Friday afternoon, said Mashu Cele, a spokeswoman for the province's social development department.
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Lightning strike kills 7 at nursery school party in South Africa
By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
November 27, 2010 6:56 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
30 people remain hospitalized with injuries
A 4-year-old child, two parents and two teachers are among the dead
A provincial spokeswoman says the lightning entered through a window
South Africa
(CNN) -- A lightning strike killed seven people -- including a 4-year-old child -- at a nursery school Christmas party in South Africa, a government spokeswoman said Saturday.
Forty others were injured when the lightning struck in KwaZulu-Natal Friday afternoon, said Mashu Cele, a spokeswoman for the province's social development department.
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Lightning strike kills 7 at nursery school party in South Africa
Lesbian who left West Point hopes to return
Lesbian who left West Point hopes to return
By John Seewer - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Nov 26, 2010 14:53:34 EST
FINDLAY, Ohio — Katherine Miller got pretty good at hiding her sexuality in high school, brushing off questions about her weekend plans and referring to her girlfriend, Kristin, as “Kris.”
She figured she could pull it off at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, too. After all, “don’t ask, don’t tell” sounded a lot like how she had gotten through her teen years.
But something changed when she arrived at West Point two years ago. She felt the sting of guilt with every lie that violated the academy’s honor code. Then, near the end of her first year, she found herself in a classroom discussion about gays in the military, listening to friends say gays disgusted them.
“I couldn’t work up the courage to foster an argument against what they were saying for fear of being targeted as a gay myself,” Miller told The Associated Press in an interview this week. “I had to be silent. That’s not what I wanted to become.”
What she has become is an unlikely activist for repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military. She resigned from the academy in August and within days was one of the most prominent faces of the debate. Yet her greatest hope now is that she can return to the place she just left.
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Lesbian who left West Point hopes to return
By John Seewer - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Nov 26, 2010 14:53:34 EST
FINDLAY, Ohio — Katherine Miller got pretty good at hiding her sexuality in high school, brushing off questions about her weekend plans and referring to her girlfriend, Kristin, as “Kris.”
She figured she could pull it off at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, too. After all, “don’t ask, don’t tell” sounded a lot like how she had gotten through her teen years.
But something changed when she arrived at West Point two years ago. She felt the sting of guilt with every lie that violated the academy’s honor code. Then, near the end of her first year, she found herself in a classroom discussion about gays in the military, listening to friends say gays disgusted them.
“I couldn’t work up the courage to foster an argument against what they were saying for fear of being targeted as a gay myself,” Miller told The Associated Press in an interview this week. “I had to be silent. That’s not what I wanted to become.”
What she has become is an unlikely activist for repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military. She resigned from the academy in August and within days was one of the most prominent faces of the debate. Yet her greatest hope now is that she can return to the place she just left.
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Lesbian who left West Point hopes to return
Marines most resistant to openly gay troops
Do Marines die for each other? Would they put their lives on the line any less if they knew one of their own was gay? Would they turn their back on a female Marine? There was a time when women were not welcomed. There was a time when someone of a different color was not welcomed. In each case the Marines managed to rise above all of it and as this piece mentions they are the, "smallest and arguably the most tight-knit of the enlisted forces." Other nations have no problem with gay people serving. They know that as members of the military, they are willing to die for all of their countrymen and not just the ones they approve the lifestyles of.
Marines most resistant to openly gay troops
(AP)
OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — They are the few, the proud and perhaps the military's biggest opponents of lifting the ban on openly gay troops.
Most of those serving in America's armed forces have no strong objections to repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" law, according to a Pentagon survey of 400,000 active duty and reservists that is scheduled for release Tuesday.
But the survey found resistance to repealing the ban strongest among the Marines, according to The Washington Post. It's an attitude apparently shared by their top leader, Commandant Gen. James Amos, who has said that the government should not lift the ban in wartime.
The Senate is supposed to consider repeal during its lame duck session in December, with many legislators favoring changing the law to allow gays to serve openly. A few staunchly oppose it, however, and both sides are expected to cite the survey in arguing whether to move forward with repeal.
The Corps is the youngest, smallest and arguably the most tight-knit of the enlisted forces, with many of its roughly 200,000 members hailing from small towns and rural areas in the South.
Marines are unabashed about distinguishing themselves from the rest of the military, with a warrior ethos and a religious zeal for their branch of service that they liken to a brotherhood.
"We've never changed our motto. We've never changed our pitch to new recruits. We have hardly changed our formal uniforms in 235 years," said Marine Reserve Lt. Col. Paul Hackett, 48, who has been in the Corps for 25 years. "We are a religion unto ourselves, and we pride ourselves in that."
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Marines most resistant to openly gay troops
Accused shoplifter stabbed Marine while collecting Toys for Tots
UPDATE
Stabbed Marine released from hospital
By Kyle Martin
Staff Writer
Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 3:29 PM
Last updated 11:01 PM
Marine Cpl. Phillip Duggan is out of the hospital and made a toy donation Saturday, friends said, 24 hours after he was attacked by a suspected shoplifter outside Augusta's Best Buy.
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Stabbed Marine released from hospital
Marine stabbed by shoplifting suspect on Black Friday
by Terry Graham
Posted: 11.27.2010 at 5:24 AM
AUGUSTA, GA -- A Marine collecting donations for Toys for Tots at Best Buy in Augusta was stabbed in the back Friday afternoon while helping to catch a shoplifting suspect.
Police have identified the injured Marine as 24-year-old Cpl. Phillip Duggan.
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Marine stabbed by shoplifting suspect on Black Friday
Special
Marine Cpl. Phillip Duggan
Stabbed Marine released from hospital
By Kyle Martin
Staff Writer
Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 3:29 PM
Last updated 11:01 PM
Marine Cpl. Phillip Duggan is out of the hospital and made a toy donation Saturday, friends said, 24 hours after he was attacked by a suspected shoplifter outside Augusta's Best Buy.
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Stabbed Marine released from hospital
Marine stabbed by shoplifting suspect on Black Friday
by Terry Graham
Posted: 11.27.2010 at 5:24 AM
AUGUSTA, GA -- A Marine collecting donations for Toys for Tots at Best Buy in Augusta was stabbed in the back Friday afternoon while helping to catch a shoplifting suspect.
Police have identified the injured Marine as 24-year-old Cpl. Phillip Duggan.
Duggan and three other Marines were outside collecting donations for Toys for Tots.
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Marine stabbed by shoplifting suspect on Black Friday
Friday, November 26, 2010
Great Medical Mystery is why this guy is called an expert
Great Medical Mystery is why this guy is called an expert
November 26, 2010 posted by Chaplain Kathie
An “expert” just came out and set us back 40 years on PTSD. He thinks there is no effective treatment and that time will take over. In other words, “get over it” leaving veterans to think there is no hope again.
Here we have a major line of BS from an “expert” on PTSD.
Wrong. There are many different programs that do in fact help them heal. There is no one size fits all in anything but there are programs that do help. In other words, treatment is not elusive. So far a “cure” is elusive but not help or hope.
This is another one.
Time works fine after a shock for some people but that depends on a lot of factors like if it seems to ease up within 30 days. Time does more damage when it is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and it is allowed to get worse like an infection that spreads out digging deeper into the life of the veteran.
read more here, it gets worse.
Mystery is why this guy is called an expert
November 26, 2010 posted by Chaplain Kathie
An “expert” just came out and set us back 40 years on PTSD. He thinks there is no effective treatment and that time will take over. In other words, “get over it” leaving veterans to think there is no hope again.
Here we have a major line of BS from an “expert” on PTSD.
Treatment remains elusive.
Wrong. There are many different programs that do in fact help them heal. There is no one size fits all in anything but there are programs that do help. In other words, treatment is not elusive. So far a “cure” is elusive but not help or hope.
This is another one.
“Time is the only truly effective treatment, but it is not universally effective,” he said. Those with full-blown PTSD reportedly have a 50 percent chance of recovering within 30 years. For others, it could take longer.
Time works fine after a shock for some people but that depends on a lot of factors like if it seems to ease up within 30 days. Time does more damage when it is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and it is allowed to get worse like an infection that spreads out digging deeper into the life of the veteran.
read more here, it gets worse.
Mystery is why this guy is called an expert
Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Stars and Stripes
Published: November 25, 2010
ADRASKAN NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, Afghanistan — If he were back home Thursday, Marine Lance Cpl. Chad Berry would have eaten turkey and ham at the home of one of his sets of grandparents in Tennessee. If it was his father’s side of the family, they’d go deer hunting after dinner, then come home and eat some more.
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Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Stars and Stripes
Published: November 25, 2010
ADRASKAN NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, Afghanistan — If he were back home Thursday, Marine Lance Cpl. Chad Berry would have eaten turkey and ham at the home of one of his sets of grandparents in Tennessee. If it was his father’s side of the family, they’d go deer hunting after dinner, then come home and eat some more.
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Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
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