Decorated War Veteran Fatally Struck by Car After Celebrating Birthday
Feb 28, 2011 – 10:08 AM
Mara Gay
Contributor
A decorated war veteran who survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan was struck by a car and killed after celebrating his birthday party at a bar on New York's Long Island.
Seamus Byrne was heading home from the bar in Smithtown, N.Y., after celebrating his 33rd birthday with his wife and friends early Sunday when he inadvertently walked into the street and was hit by an oncoming car, according to police.
"He was very happy with his friends, celebrating life," his father-in-law, James Gallagher, told the New York Daily News. "He just wasn't looking at the traffic, and he walked in front of a car."
His wife, Michelle, who is a nurse, witnessed the accident and tried to revive her husband until paramedics arrived, Gallagher told the New York Post. Byrne died later at a hospital.
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Decorated War Veteran Fatally Struck by Car
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Impotent power of words
There are so many reports and articles on PTSD that you'd think it is a well known issue everyone knows about. Unlike the ads for erectile dysfunction (ED) so well searched for the term pops up with just "erec" typed into Google or Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)medication, we don't see ads for medications for PTSD. How did these topics end up with multi-million dollar ad campaigns? Was it out of the goodness of their hearts corporations paid to spread the word? No, they have a product to sell so they spread the word about issues a lot of people suffered with silently. RA is painful but did not come with a stigma attached to it. Erectile dysfunction had a huge "shame" factor, so men didn't talk about it while women complained to their friends about it.
What changed? Ex-Senator Bob Dole along with others said they had ED during commercials to sell medication. The ads were so effective that millions of men went to see their doctor for a "boost" even if they didn't have ED. Women were cutting out advertisements to show their partners while stocking up on K-Y Personal Lubricants. We didn't have to know what was in the tub during a Cialis ad. This disclaimer is on their ads and their website, "CIALIS is not right for everyone. Only your healthcare provider and you can decide if CIALIS is right for you." Gone are the days when a man was too ashamed to admit he had the problem. Now if he says anything about not being able to "get it up" someone tells him to just take a pill.
Words broke the silence.
But words, while very powerful, lack the ability to change the world without money behind them. The impotent power of words being spoken with few ears hearing. The stories you see on this blog all have money behind them, unless they were written exclusively by me. Each news report linked to was written by someone getting a paycheck to research, interview and write them. Every study printed was commissioned by financial backing. It is more a matter of money talks.
Christianity began with 13 poor men homeless men walking around talking about the love of God and salvation. They were given food and shelter from strangers in exchange for what they had to say along with miracles to heal the ill. Christ didn't need a lot of money behind Him, an ad campaign or a public relations department but there were a lot less people in the world.
Some say that had Christ walked the earth today, no one would listen but I believe they are wrong. The power of the Internet changed all of that. A story coming out of a tiny town no one ever heard of can reach around the world if Associated Press picks up on it. From their feed, news stations around the country discover it and bingo, a local story becomes international.
If you are in doubt, then think about this. The number one story a couple of years ago on this blog was about an 11 year old boy from Lynnwood Washington. Brenden Foster was dying of cancer. When he could have only been thinking about himself, he cared more about homeless people he saw coming home from yet another visit to his doctor. 11 year old Brenden Foster's dying wish, feed the homeless News station KOMO reported the story and tiny blogs like mine picked up on it. There were over 3,000 hits and 78 comments, which is highly unusual for Wounded Times Blog. CNN reported on young Brenden and his story reached around the world in a matter of days. One little boy's dying wish touched others, reached their hearts and changed some minds on how they feel about homeless people.
Words can change the world by bringing attention to what someone thought was important enough to tell.
Twenty years ago, reports on veterans committing suicide were kept as a family secret. Homeless veterans were only paid attention to by shelters or reporters when one of them was in trouble with the law. Stories on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, another secret families suffered with in the privacy of their own homes, were happening all over the country but since no one was talking publicly, no one knew.
Now we have the Internet to get PTSD out of the secret world of suffering with millions of people discussing it but what we don't have is the money behind it. Drug companies are making billions without having to spend much money on TV ads. Average people never know about PTSD unless they know someone with it and even some families with member struggling with it remain clueless. Why?
The information is all over the net. That's a good thing but how would they find it if they don't know what "it" is?
We read the reports everyday on this blog, so it is incredibly hard to understand there is anyone left without a clue, but if you begin to talk to someone "out of the loop" you'll understand just how many remain in the dark. Even though there are about 7 million Americans with PTSD few have heard of it. According to the Mayo Clinic "Erectile dysfunction is common, and prevalence increases with age. It affects 5 to 10 percent of men at age 40. By age 70, from 40 to 60 percent of men have the condition." This, like PTSD, crosses all demographics, but PTSD requires someone to have been exposed to at least one traumatic event. ED is caused by a list of causes. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is only common after experiencing trauma.
Think about all the news reports we read everyday on traumatic events right in our own community. Car accidents, fires, rapes and other crimes. We understand these things can happen any second. Read the obituary section and we understand that a family member of ours could die any minute. We know families are changed by these events in their lives. 1 out of 3 (or 1 out of 5 depending on the report) will not walk away from a traumatic event and just be able to "get over it" with time. By the time the expected period of mourning is over, symptoms take over but the event itself is not connected to the changes we see in a person. That is, unless we know what we are seeing and where it came from.
Out of the 7 million Americans with PTSD, millions of them are combat veterans. For them, their traumatic experience is one building on another yet we don't see to be able to understand how they can end up with a much deeper level of PTSD, making it harder to not only treat but to get them to seek treatment in the first place. These are not your average citizen experiencing what we all go through, but a minority among us willing to put themselves into traumatic events. They join the military knowing what comes with combat, ready to take their chances to get a job the country wanted done, done.
When it comes to them, we don't pay attention. We don't even pay attention to what is going on in Iraq or Afghanistan, so the chance of paying attention to them when they come home is greatly diminished. We don't see ads about families trying to help like we see a wife enjoying her husband being "ready" when she is. We don't see ads about the pain a veteran goes through like we see someone talking about the pain of RA and how much their lives changed.
When I tell people what I do, sooner or later they share how someone in their own family was a veteran with PTSD and then they share their pain over the fact they never knew what it was. Wives discovering PTSD was behind their troubled marriage regret how they responded and feel angry no one ever told then what it was before. It is not that no one tried to tell them but without the knowledge somehow getting to the ears of someone needing to hear it, it was as if no one on the planet knew anything.
Seven million people with PTSD joined by families and extended families view the ads we see everyday and wonder when we'll see ads addressing what matters in our own lives. We wonder who will find the sense of urgency to shell out a few million to do advertising on our suffering. We want to see that there are people making miracles happen everyday for others to give us hope and we want to know it is ok to talk about it publicly without being ashamed. With all the money going to PTSD these days for research and treatment, you'd think someone would value the power of awareness enough to kick in a few million for a TV ad.
What changed? Ex-Senator Bob Dole along with others said they had ED during commercials to sell medication. The ads were so effective that millions of men went to see their doctor for a "boost" even if they didn't have ED. Women were cutting out advertisements to show their partners while stocking up on K-Y Personal Lubricants. We didn't have to know what was in the tub during a Cialis ad. This disclaimer is on their ads and their website, "CIALIS is not right for everyone. Only your healthcare provider and you can decide if CIALIS is right for you." Gone are the days when a man was too ashamed to admit he had the problem. Now if he says anything about not being able to "get it up" someone tells him to just take a pill.
Words broke the silence.
Dr. Jay Adlersberg of New York's WABC wrote in the release,
Power of Words"One study by researchers at Stanford University highlights what many scholars and politicians have known for a long time. People's thinking towards a particular conclusion can be swayed with the use of the right words or phrases, and shows the influence of words and images."
But words, while very powerful, lack the ability to change the world without money behind them. The impotent power of words being spoken with few ears hearing. The stories you see on this blog all have money behind them, unless they were written exclusively by me. Each news report linked to was written by someone getting a paycheck to research, interview and write them. Every study printed was commissioned by financial backing. It is more a matter of money talks.
Christianity began with 13 poor men homeless men walking around talking about the love of God and salvation. They were given food and shelter from strangers in exchange for what they had to say along with miracles to heal the ill. Christ didn't need a lot of money behind Him, an ad campaign or a public relations department but there were a lot less people in the world.
Some say that had Christ walked the earth today, no one would listen but I believe they are wrong. The power of the Internet changed all of that. A story coming out of a tiny town no one ever heard of can reach around the world if Associated Press picks up on it. From their feed, news stations around the country discover it and bingo, a local story becomes international.
If you are in doubt, then think about this. The number one story a couple of years ago on this blog was about an 11 year old boy from Lynnwood Washington. Brenden Foster was dying of cancer. When he could have only been thinking about himself, he cared more about homeless people he saw coming home from yet another visit to his doctor. 11 year old Brenden Foster's dying wish, feed the homeless News station KOMO reported the story and tiny blogs like mine picked up on it. There were over 3,000 hits and 78 comments, which is highly unusual for Wounded Times Blog. CNN reported on young Brenden and his story reached around the world in a matter of days. One little boy's dying wish touched others, reached their hearts and changed some minds on how they feel about homeless people.
Words can change the world by bringing attention to what someone thought was important enough to tell.
Twenty years ago, reports on veterans committing suicide were kept as a family secret. Homeless veterans were only paid attention to by shelters or reporters when one of them was in trouble with the law. Stories on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, another secret families suffered with in the privacy of their own homes, were happening all over the country but since no one was talking publicly, no one knew.
Now we have the Internet to get PTSD out of the secret world of suffering with millions of people discussing it but what we don't have is the money behind it. Drug companies are making billions without having to spend much money on TV ads. Average people never know about PTSD unless they know someone with it and even some families with member struggling with it remain clueless. Why?
The information is all over the net. That's a good thing but how would they find it if they don't know what "it" is?
We read the reports everyday on this blog, so it is incredibly hard to understand there is anyone left without a clue, but if you begin to talk to someone "out of the loop" you'll understand just how many remain in the dark. Even though there are about 7 million Americans with PTSD few have heard of it. According to the Mayo Clinic "Erectile dysfunction is common, and prevalence increases with age. It affects 5 to 10 percent of men at age 40. By age 70, from 40 to 60 percent of men have the condition." This, like PTSD, crosses all demographics, but PTSD requires someone to have been exposed to at least one traumatic event. ED is caused by a list of causes. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is only common after experiencing trauma.
Think about all the news reports we read everyday on traumatic events right in our own community. Car accidents, fires, rapes and other crimes. We understand these things can happen any second. Read the obituary section and we understand that a family member of ours could die any minute. We know families are changed by these events in their lives. 1 out of 3 (or 1 out of 5 depending on the report) will not walk away from a traumatic event and just be able to "get over it" with time. By the time the expected period of mourning is over, symptoms take over but the event itself is not connected to the changes we see in a person. That is, unless we know what we are seeing and where it came from.
Out of the 7 million Americans with PTSD, millions of them are combat veterans. For them, their traumatic experience is one building on another yet we don't see to be able to understand how they can end up with a much deeper level of PTSD, making it harder to not only treat but to get them to seek treatment in the first place. These are not your average citizen experiencing what we all go through, but a minority among us willing to put themselves into traumatic events. They join the military knowing what comes with combat, ready to take their chances to get a job the country wanted done, done.
When it comes to them, we don't pay attention. We don't even pay attention to what is going on in Iraq or Afghanistan, so the chance of paying attention to them when they come home is greatly diminished. We don't see ads about families trying to help like we see a wife enjoying her husband being "ready" when she is. We don't see ads about the pain a veteran goes through like we see someone talking about the pain of RA and how much their lives changed.
When I tell people what I do, sooner or later they share how someone in their own family was a veteran with PTSD and then they share their pain over the fact they never knew what it was. Wives discovering PTSD was behind their troubled marriage regret how they responded and feel angry no one ever told then what it was before. It is not that no one tried to tell them but without the knowledge somehow getting to the ears of someone needing to hear it, it was as if no one on the planet knew anything.
Seven million people with PTSD joined by families and extended families view the ads we see everyday and wonder when we'll see ads addressing what matters in our own lives. We wonder who will find the sense of urgency to shell out a few million to do advertising on our suffering. We want to see that there are people making miracles happen everyday for others to give us hope and we want to know it is ok to talk about it publicly without being ashamed. With all the money going to PTSD these days for research and treatment, you'd think someone would value the power of awareness enough to kick in a few million for a TV ad.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Yellow Ribbon offers help to returning Florida National Guards
Yellow Ribbon offers help to returning guardsmen
By COURTNEY CAIRNS PASTOR | The Tampa Tribune
Published: February 26, 2011
Updated: 01:53 pm
TAMPA - Florida National Guard Staff Sgt. Roger Roache thought he knew what to expect when he was deployed to Kuwait in January 2010 after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Although Afghanistan was intense, Kuwait turned into a whirlwind of another kind.
"This was the easiest of missions because you know what to expect," said Roache, 32. "Emotionally, it's crazy."
His wife, Laura, learned she was pregnant after a trip they took together on his leave. She mailed him sonogram photos, e-mailed updates after doctors' appointments and leaned on family for support. He got up at 4 a.m. to call her for news.
When he returned to their Palm Bay home in December, she had a lengthy "honey-to-do list" for him. She said she didn't know how she would have gotten through the end of the pregnancy without him there.
Their son, Achilles, was born three weeks ago, and the couple is adjusting to sleep deprivation – they joke Achilles is on "Kuwait time."
Although Roger Roache is unemployed and job-hunting, it's a happy period for them.
The hard part tends to come three to four months after a soldier returns, said Col. Jim Fogle-Miller, state chaplain for the National Guard.
At first, he said, families are in the "honeymoon of getting back." But real life creeps in and stress grows.
Fogle-Miller spoke today about reconnecting with loved ones, part of the Yellow Ribbon Program at the Hyatt Regency Tampa. About 1,000 Florida Army National Guard members and their families got an expenses-paid weekend to learn about resources available to help them adjust to post-deployment life.
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Yellow Ribbon offers help to returning guardsmen
By COURTNEY CAIRNS PASTOR | The Tampa Tribune
Published: February 26, 2011
Updated: 01:53 pm
TAMPA - Florida National Guard Staff Sgt. Roger Roache thought he knew what to expect when he was deployed to Kuwait in January 2010 after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Although Afghanistan was intense, Kuwait turned into a whirlwind of another kind.
"This was the easiest of missions because you know what to expect," said Roache, 32. "Emotionally, it's crazy."
His wife, Laura, learned she was pregnant after a trip they took together on his leave. She mailed him sonogram photos, e-mailed updates after doctors' appointments and leaned on family for support. He got up at 4 a.m. to call her for news.
When he returned to their Palm Bay home in December, she had a lengthy "honey-to-do list" for him. She said she didn't know how she would have gotten through the end of the pregnancy without him there.
Their son, Achilles, was born three weeks ago, and the couple is adjusting to sleep deprivation – they joke Achilles is on "Kuwait time."
Although Roger Roache is unemployed and job-hunting, it's a happy period for them.
The hard part tends to come three to four months after a soldier returns, said Col. Jim Fogle-Miller, state chaplain for the National Guard.
At first, he said, families are in the "honeymoon of getting back." But real life creeps in and stress grows.
Fogle-Miller spoke today about reconnecting with loved ones, part of the Yellow Ribbon Program at the Hyatt Regency Tampa. About 1,000 Florida Army National Guard members and their families got an expenses-paid weekend to learn about resources available to help them adjust to post-deployment life.
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Yellow Ribbon offers help to returning guardsmen
Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD
Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD
by Laura Braddick
lbraddick@mdjonline.com
February 24, 2011
Staff/Special by Don Naumann
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD
Canton resident Leslie Lugosi is using her passion for filmmaking to call attention to a national issue.
The self-taught director and writer has been making short movies for five years with her film company, BootyTooth Productions.
Her newest work entitled "Listen" follows a Vietnam War veteran who begins to experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder episodes after an accident several years since his military service.
"It's based on a short story I wrote," Lugosi said. "My intent was to help people understand PTSD and help those who are suffering from it."
The Atlanta native said she tries to make films that have a positive impact on people and focus on issues important to her.
"My father served in Vietnam, and he was adversely affected by the war," she said. "It's always been a subject very dear to my heart, and it's something we're still experiencing today with soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq."
The movie, which has not yet been publicly released, was filmed entirely in Cherokee County.
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD.
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Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD
by Laura Braddick
lbraddick@mdjonline.com
February 24, 2011
Staff/Special by Don Naumann
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD
Canton resident Leslie Lugosi is using her passion for filmmaking to call attention to a national issue.
The self-taught director and writer has been making short movies for five years with her film company, BootyTooth Productions.
Her newest work entitled "Listen" follows a Vietnam War veteran who begins to experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder episodes after an accident several years since his military service.
"It's based on a short story I wrote," Lugosi said. "My intent was to help people understand PTSD and help those who are suffering from it."
The Atlanta native said she tries to make films that have a positive impact on people and focus on issues important to her.
"My father served in Vietnam, and he was adversely affected by the war," she said. "It's always been a subject very dear to my heart, and it's something we're still experiencing today with soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq."
The movie, which has not yet been publicly released, was filmed entirely in Cherokee County.
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD.
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Canton director uses film to highlight PTSD
Teens found guilty in Christmas attack on Marine and his wife
Teens found guilty in Christmas attack on Marine
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRADENTON, Fla. -- Twin 15-year-olds were found guilty of assault charges stemming from a Christmas night attack on a U.S. Marine and his wife outside a Bradenton movie theater.
Circuit Judge Edward Nicholas said Thursday he will review the brothers' background before deciding on a penalty in March.
The incident began during a showing of "Little Fockers." Federico Freire, home on leave from Afghanistan, and his wife, testified they asked the group of unruly teens to be quiet.
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Teens found guilty in Christmas attack on Marine
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Marine home on leave, wife attacked by teens after showing of "Little Fockers"
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRADENTON, Fla. -- Twin 15-year-olds were found guilty of assault charges stemming from a Christmas night attack on a U.S. Marine and his wife outside a Bradenton movie theater.
Circuit Judge Edward Nicholas said Thursday he will review the brothers' background before deciding on a penalty in March.
The incident began during a showing of "Little Fockers." Federico Freire, home on leave from Afghanistan, and his wife, testified they asked the group of unruly teens to be quiet.
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Teens found guilty in Christmas attack on Marine
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Marine home on leave, wife attacked by teens after showing of "Little Fockers"
100-Year-Old Recalls Life As WWII Army Nurse
100-Year-Old Recalls Life As WWII Army Nurse
Ora Pierce Hicks One Of 500 Black Nurses Serving At Time
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- There are not many people who make it to 100 and fewer still with a story like that of Ora Pierce Hicks.
KMBC's Bev Chapman reported that Hicks is a living legend to her family and to those who know about her service in World War II.
She is one of 17 children who grew up in a poor black family in Bogalusa, La. Hicks said her mother nursed the children of white women who couldn’t care for their own in order to make a little money.
Poverty didn’t stop Hicks from dreaming big. Hicks wanted to become a nurse. After working for two years as a school teacher and saving her money, she did it. She met a man who knew the director of a nursing school in Kansas City. He gave her a contact and in 1933, Hicks was enrolled. She graduated in 1936, returned home to Louisiana and probably would have stayed there working as a nurse were it not for the war.
“I heard on the radio that soldiers were dying because they didn’t have enough nurses,” Hicks said. “I wanted to help.”
She enlisted at a time when the Army was desperate for nurses, but not anxious to hire black nurses. They accepted Hicks and the experience changed her life.
One of her first posts was to a P.O.W. camp in Florence, Ariz. Later, she worked in a psychiatric ward at Walter Reed Hospital.
Life As WWII Army Nurse
Ora Pierce Hicks One Of 500 Black Nurses Serving At Time
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- There are not many people who make it to 100 and fewer still with a story like that of Ora Pierce Hicks.
KMBC's Bev Chapman reported that Hicks is a living legend to her family and to those who know about her service in World War II.
She is one of 17 children who grew up in a poor black family in Bogalusa, La. Hicks said her mother nursed the children of white women who couldn’t care for their own in order to make a little money.
Poverty didn’t stop Hicks from dreaming big. Hicks wanted to become a nurse. After working for two years as a school teacher and saving her money, she did it. She met a man who knew the director of a nursing school in Kansas City. He gave her a contact and in 1933, Hicks was enrolled. She graduated in 1936, returned home to Louisiana and probably would have stayed there working as a nurse were it not for the war.
“I heard on the radio that soldiers were dying because they didn’t have enough nurses,” Hicks said. “I wanted to help.”
She enlisted at a time when the Army was desperate for nurses, but not anxious to hire black nurses. They accepted Hicks and the experience changed her life.
One of her first posts was to a P.O.W. camp in Florence, Ariz. Later, she worked in a psychiatric ward at Walter Reed Hospital.
At the end of World War II, there were 50,000 in the Army Nursing Corps. Hicks was one of about 500 who were black. She rose to the rank of major before retiring.read more here
Life As WWII Army Nurse
Florida Pastor Talks About Shooting at Church
Crime & Courts
Florida Pastor Talks About Shooting at Church
Published February 25, 2011
FoxNews.com
A South Florida pastor is speaking out after police were forced to fire on a knife-wielding man at his church.
"He was very aggressive," said Luther Memorial Lutheran Church Pastor James Congee. "We have odd things that happen, but not like that."
Pastor Congee has been pastor at the church for nearly a decade and a pastor for more than 30 years and said he has never witnessed a church day like Wednesday's.
"I heard a commotion outside and the janitor came running into the room, and behind him was this fellow with a knife. He was right on top of him," said the Pastor.
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Florida Pastor Talks About Shooting at Church
Florida Pastor Talks About Shooting at Church
Published February 25, 2011
FoxNews.com
A South Florida pastor is speaking out after police were forced to fire on a knife-wielding man at his church.
"He was very aggressive," said Luther Memorial Lutheran Church Pastor James Congee. "We have odd things that happen, but not like that."
Pastor Congee has been pastor at the church for nearly a decade and a pastor for more than 30 years and said he has never witnessed a church day like Wednesday's.
"I heard a commotion outside and the janitor came running into the room, and behind him was this fellow with a knife. He was right on top of him," said the Pastor.
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Florida Pastor Talks About Shooting at Church
Soldier still missing, last location was Flathead Valley
Soldier still missing, last location was Flathead Valley
Posted: Feb 25, 2011 9:46 AM by Katy Harris (Kalispell)
The parents of missing U.S. soldier Noah Pippin are desperate to find their son, who was last seen in the Flathead Valley back in August.
Some new details are coming out as to why they believe he wasn't alone when he disappeared.
Noah was last seen in August. He grew up in Michigan and completed three combat tours in Iraq, and was driving home to Michigan before preparing to deploy again to Afghanistan.
Flathead County Sheriff's Department Detective Pat Walsh tracked him as far as a Hungry Horse hotel. They also traced a notebook with directions to an area just outside Glacier National Park.
Mike Pippen, Noah's father, says after Montana's News Station first aired the story in November, he received an anonymous tip from someone in Missoula claiming they saw Noah outside a bar with a woman.
If you have any information that may help authorities, or have seen Noah Pippin, call Mike Pippin at 231-883-1445 or Flathead County Detective Pat Walsh at 406-758-5600.
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Soldier still missing, last location was Flathead Valley
Posted: Feb 25, 2011 9:46 AM by Katy Harris (Kalispell)
The parents of missing U.S. soldier Noah Pippin are desperate to find their son, who was last seen in the Flathead Valley back in August.
Some new details are coming out as to why they believe he wasn't alone when he disappeared.
Noah was last seen in August. He grew up in Michigan and completed three combat tours in Iraq, and was driving home to Michigan before preparing to deploy again to Afghanistan.
Flathead County Sheriff's Department Detective Pat Walsh tracked him as far as a Hungry Horse hotel. They also traced a notebook with directions to an area just outside Glacier National Park.
Mike Pippen, Noah's father, says after Montana's News Station first aired the story in November, he received an anonymous tip from someone in Missoula claiming they saw Noah outside a bar with a woman.
If you have any information that may help authorities, or have seen Noah Pippin, call Mike Pippin at 231-883-1445 or Flathead County Detective Pat Walsh at 406-758-5600.
read more here
Soldier still missing, last location was Flathead Valley
What really happened to Pfc. David Jones Jr?
If a 21 year old soldier committed suicide, it is very sad, but we've been reading about suicide deaths for years. Usually when we read their stories, the families report other issues or changes going on before the death. The times when a family does not believe the death was by their own hands are often a very long battle to discover the truth.
St. Johnsville soldier's loved ones dispute Army's suicide finding
But David Jones' loved ones not satisfied with Army report in Iraq case
By DENNIS YUSKO Staff Writer
Updated 10:38 p.m., Friday, February 25, 2011
The would-be fiance of an area soldier who died in Iraq refuses to accept a recently completed Army investigation that says he killed himself in Baghdad.
An Army Criminal Investigation Command probe into the Oct. 24 death of Pfc. David Jones Jr. determined the 21-year-old soldier committed suicide. Results were sent recently to Jones' family in his hometown of St. Johnsville.
"CID's investigation concluded that Pfc. Jones died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and that no foul play was suspected in his death," CID spokesman Jeffrey Castro said in an e-mail Friday.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/St-Johnsville-soldier-s-loved-ones-dispute-1030401.php#ixzz1F4IUkn7Z
Winton and Jones' family, whose name is Bennett, consider his death suspicious and have said he had too much to live for to have taken his life. In the days following Jones' death, family members said they thought he was killed by another soldier in a shooting rampage. Army officials quickly denied that.
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St. Johnsville soldier's loved ones dispute Army's suicide finding1
Friday, February 25, 2011
Crowd cheers Marines returning home to Central Florida
Last night I went to welcome home some local heroes. 50 Marines came home. Some missed a lot of things while they were gone. One missed the birth of his baby. One came off the bus, soon after, hearing Happy Birthday. It was a wonderful night and it felt good to see so many people show up to say welcome home with balloons and flags, big smiles and really loud cheers. I'll have more on this over the weekend since I shot some video on it.
Crowd cheers Marines returning home to Central Florida
February 25, 2011|By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel
Of the many parents who waited nervously for their sons and daughters to come home, Lee Entrekin knew as well as any where they had been, and how fotunate they were to return home safely.
Entrekin left home to serve in the U.S. Air Force in Iraq in 2005 and 2006, returning in time, he said, to see his son head to the Middle East as a Marine. His boy returned home safe from that deployment, only to go back about nine months ago.
Thursday night, Lance Cpl. Gregory Entrekin was among about 50 veterans of Afghanistan who returned home to Central Florida. And to his father's great pride and elation, "he came home in one piece."
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Crowd cheers Marines returning home to Central Florida
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