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National Guard troops mobilized for Sandy response
By DAVID S. CLOUD
Tribune Washington Bureau
Published: October 31, 2012
WASHINGTON — More than 10,000 National Guard troops in 13 states have been mobilized to assist in the response to Hurricane Sandy, including more than 2,200 who are assisting with recovery efforts in New York, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Eric Durr, a spokesman for New York’s Division of Military and Naval Affairs, said that 650 National Guard soldiers and air personnel are deployed on Long Island, while another 400 are in New York City, with another 400 on the way.
The Guard is using Humvees and trucks to clear debris, rescue stranded people and to help transport local officials in flooded areas.
“They’re taking cops and fireman around in Humvees helping to rescue people,” Durr said.
Thirty guard personnel are helping to lug fuel to the 13th floor of Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, where the facility’s emergency generators are located, he said.
Ten Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft are being used for aerial surveillance and are assisting local first responders, he said.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Marine veteran, former boxer, battling male breast cancer
Marine veteran, former boxer, battling breast cancer
By CHERYL LECESSE
The Salem News
Published: October 31, 2012
PEABODY, Mass. — Peter Devereaux didn’t even know men could get breast cancer.
So when his doctor called to give him the news, Devereaux thought he had called him by mistake.
“I said, ‘Doc, it’s Peter Devereaux,’” he said, thinking his doctor would apologize and hang up.
He didn’t, and within days Devereaux was back at the hospital, getting a bone scan and chest X-ray to see how far the cancer had spread within his body.
A Peabody native and North Andover resident, Devereaux, 50, was diagnosed with stage 3B invasive ductal carcinoma in January 2008. For the past 4½ years, he has been battling the disease, which doctors discovered had spread to his hips, ribs and spine in 2009.
He is one of 82 men who have been diagnosed with male breast cancer believed to have been caused by water contamination at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina.
“It’s the largest cluster ever recorded,” Devereaux said.
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By CHERYL LECESSE
The Salem News
Published: October 31, 2012
PEABODY, Mass. — Peter Devereaux didn’t even know men could get breast cancer.
So when his doctor called to give him the news, Devereaux thought he had called him by mistake.
“I said, ‘Doc, it’s Peter Devereaux,’” he said, thinking his doctor would apologize and hang up.
He didn’t, and within days Devereaux was back at the hospital, getting a bone scan and chest X-ray to see how far the cancer had spread within his body.
A Peabody native and North Andover resident, Devereaux, 50, was diagnosed with stage 3B invasive ductal carcinoma in January 2008. For the past 4½ years, he has been battling the disease, which doctors discovered had spread to his hips, ribs and spine in 2009.
He is one of 82 men who have been diagnosed with male breast cancer believed to have been caused by water contamination at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina.
“It’s the largest cluster ever recorded,” Devereaux said.
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National Guard lending a much-needed hand after Sandy
National Guard lending a much-needed hand
Traffic, rescue operations are among the calls of duty
By William McMichael
The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal
Posted : Wednesday Oct 31, 2012
A steady stream of cars coming north through Fenwick Island on Del. 1 came face-to-face with a Delaware National Guard Humvee blocking both travel lanes and soldiers directing them into the left turn lane.
Another Humvee blocked the left turn onto the roadway from Lighthouse Road. A Delaware State Police cruiser parked across northbound Del. 1 completed the blockade.
It was a scene repeated Tuesday across the lower half of the state, particularly in Sussex County, which appears to have gotten the worst of Superstorm Sandy. Guardsmen worked in support of police and other civil authorities to control traffic, assess damage and rescue stranded residents.
“Last night, we were taking people to the Cape Henlopen High School shelter,” said Spc. Matthew Underwood of the 198th Signal Battalion’s A Company, citing evacuations in Long Neck, Georgetown and elsewhere.
Underwood had stopped at a Rehoboth Beach checkpoint before he moved on to help state police with damage assessments.
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Traffic, rescue operations are among the calls of duty
By William McMichael
The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal
Posted : Wednesday Oct 31, 2012
A steady stream of cars coming north through Fenwick Island on Del. 1 came face-to-face with a Delaware National Guard Humvee blocking both travel lanes and soldiers directing them into the left turn lane.
Another Humvee blocked the left turn onto the roadway from Lighthouse Road. A Delaware State Police cruiser parked across northbound Del. 1 completed the blockade.
It was a scene repeated Tuesday across the lower half of the state, particularly in Sussex County, which appears to have gotten the worst of Superstorm Sandy. Guardsmen worked in support of police and other civil authorities to control traffic, assess damage and rescue stranded residents.
“Last night, we were taking people to the Cape Henlopen High School shelter,” said Spc. Matthew Underwood of the 198th Signal Battalion’s A Company, citing evacuations in Long Neck, Georgetown and elsewhere.
Underwood had stopped at a Rehoboth Beach checkpoint before he moved on to help state police with damage assessments.
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Heroes of Hurricane Sandy
When politicians talk about cutting the debt and public employees, we all need to remember what kind of people we are "getting rid of" because when you needed them, they showed up. When you don't need them, you don't care if they are there or not.
Take a look at what they did when Hurricane Sandy hit. Remember what they did on 9-11. Remember what they did every time they showed up after storms, in all kinds of emergencies and remember how they made the terrible easier to get through.
Everything we're seeing on Combat PTSD is in this book
Everything we're seeing on Combat PTSD is in this book
by Chaplain Kathie
Wounded Times Blog
October 31, 2012
In 2002 I tried to warn veterans and their families about what they were getting into when they came home from combat. I was right. Everything we're seeing is in this book. Now you can know what was known way back then.
I need help to be able to help veterans and their families! I am stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. While I started working with veterans and their families long before most people, I am now last on the list for support.
I am taking care of families and out of my mind busy doing what I love but I am also flat broke. If I find a job to support what I do, I won't be able to do it as much as needed. If I don't find financial support, or a job, I won't be able to do any of this anymore.
After 30 years of working on PTSD and what it does to the veterans and their families, I am an expert. When it comes to raising funds to do it, consider me stupid. I stepped up when families needed me, now I need someone to step up and help me to continue doing it.
Will you help me by making a donation and passing on this plea for help?
Make a donation in any amount and get an ebook of FOR THE LOVE OF JACK, HIS WAR/MY BATTLE.
Point Man of Winter Park is a 501c3
by Chaplain Kathie
Wounded Times Blog
October 31, 2012
In 2002 I tried to warn veterans and their families about what they were getting into when they came home from combat. I was right. Everything we're seeing is in this book. Now you can know what was known way back then.
I am taking care of families and out of my mind busy doing what I love but I am also flat broke. If I find a job to support what I do, I won't be able to do it as much as needed. If I don't find financial support, or a job, I won't be able to do any of this anymore.
After 30 years of working on PTSD and what it does to the veterans and their families, I am an expert. When it comes to raising funds to do it, consider me stupid. I stepped up when families needed me, now I need someone to step up and help me to continue doing it.
Will you help me by making a donation and passing on this plea for help?
Make a donation in any amount and get an ebook of FOR THE LOVE OF JACK, HIS WAR/MY BATTLE.
Point Man of Winter Park is a 501c3
Texans, volunteers present Marine widow with new home
Texans, volunteers present Marine widow with new home
by Kevin Reece
KHOU 11 News
Posted on October 30, 2012
HOUSTON—The widow of a fallen Marine received the keys and a mortgage-free deed to her new home in Alvin Tuesday.
It fulfilled a promise made by the Houston Texans and a home-building organization called Operation Finally Home.
Marine Staff Sgt. Scott Wood served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Injuries suffered from an improvised explosive device while he was on duty led to several painful surgeries. His family said he also suffered from PTSD. While he was at home in Alvin visiting family and friends he died unexpectedly in his sleep on Nov. 20, 2011.
He was 35 years old.
Four weeks later, his widow Sara Wood and their son Landon were invited to Reliant Stadium to be guests of the Houston Texans at a game against the Carolina Panthers.
They were told they would receive free Christmas presents, especially for 5-year-old Landon. Landon did get several presents. But the Texans, and Operation Finally Home CEO Dan Wallrath in a presentation broadcast on the stadium’s video screens, also surprised them with the promise to build her a new home.
Fast forward 10 months to Tuesday in the Kendall Lakes subdivision in Alvin, and dozens greeted Sara and Landon Wood at their new 2,391-square-foot home.
“We owe this to this family,” said Operation Finally Home founder and CEO Dan Wallrath.
“As Americans we owe this to this family.”
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by Kevin Reece
KHOU 11 News
Posted on October 30, 2012
HOUSTON—The widow of a fallen Marine received the keys and a mortgage-free deed to her new home in Alvin Tuesday.
It fulfilled a promise made by the Houston Texans and a home-building organization called Operation Finally Home.
Marine Staff Sgt. Scott Wood served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Injuries suffered from an improvised explosive device while he was on duty led to several painful surgeries. His family said he also suffered from PTSD. While he was at home in Alvin visiting family and friends he died unexpectedly in his sleep on Nov. 20, 2011.
He was 35 years old.
Four weeks later, his widow Sara Wood and their son Landon were invited to Reliant Stadium to be guests of the Houston Texans at a game against the Carolina Panthers.
They were told they would receive free Christmas presents, especially for 5-year-old Landon. Landon did get several presents. But the Texans, and Operation Finally Home CEO Dan Wallrath in a presentation broadcast on the stadium’s video screens, also surprised them with the promise to build her a new home.
Fast forward 10 months to Tuesday in the Kendall Lakes subdivision in Alvin, and dozens greeted Sara and Landon Wood at their new 2,391-square-foot home.
“We owe this to this family,” said Operation Finally Home founder and CEO Dan Wallrath.
“As Americans we owe this to this family.”
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New program helps wounded vets get back on their feet
New program helps wounded vets get back on their feet
Loudoun Times
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012
by Andrew Sharbel
ServiceSource has been helping thousands of Americans with disabilities over the last 40 years with employment, training, rehabilitation, housing and other support services.
Now, they are doing their part to help wounded veterans returning home from the War on Terror with a new program, which has become a serious issue for the armed services.
According to a study conducted by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, approximately one in five soldiers returning from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from post traumatic stress disorder.
Warrior Bridge is a program designed to help those wounded veterans bridge the gap between the military and employment.
Mike Costanzo is a 90 percent disabled veteran and now is serving as the only employee with ServiceSource working on just Warrior Bridge.
Costanzo, a U.S. Army retired sergeant and a resident of Ashburn, has been working on Warrior Bridge since he was hired in September.
“Warrior Bridge started as a concept about two years ago down in Florida and it migrated up to North Carolina,” Costanzo said. “We received some funding [from the Bob Woodruff Foundation] over the summer to start a position here in Fairfax and I was hired in September.”
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Loudoun Times
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012
by Andrew Sharbel
ServiceSource has been helping thousands of Americans with disabilities over the last 40 years with employment, training, rehabilitation, housing and other support services.
Now, they are doing their part to help wounded veterans returning home from the War on Terror with a new program, which has become a serious issue for the armed services.
According to a study conducted by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, approximately one in five soldiers returning from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from post traumatic stress disorder.
Warrior Bridge is a program designed to help those wounded veterans bridge the gap between the military and employment.
Mike Costanzo is a 90 percent disabled veteran and now is serving as the only employee with ServiceSource working on just Warrior Bridge.
Costanzo, a U.S. Army retired sergeant and a resident of Ashburn, has been working on Warrior Bridge since he was hired in September.
“Warrior Bridge started as a concept about two years ago down in Florida and it migrated up to North Carolina,” Costanzo said. “We received some funding [from the Bob Woodruff Foundation] over the summer to start a position here in Fairfax and I was hired in September.”
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Benjamin Moore gives Iraq Veteran with PTSD fresh outlook
Boise veteran's home gets a paint makeover
by Kim Fields
KTVB.COM
Posted on October 30, 2012
BOISE -- An Army veteran living in Boise is enjoying a freshly painted home, thanks to some local volunteers. It's their way of giving back to a man who's given so much to our country.
Nicolas DeNinno served 15 months in Iraq in 2007. He was diagnosed with PTSD when he returned home. And this week, local volunteers spent a couple of days at his house, painting every room, to help make life a little easier for him.
It's part of Benjamin Moore's Color Care Across America.
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by Kim Fields
KTVB.COM
Posted on October 30, 2012
BOISE -- An Army veteran living in Boise is enjoying a freshly painted home, thanks to some local volunteers. It's their way of giving back to a man who's given so much to our country.
Nicolas DeNinno served 15 months in Iraq in 2007. He was diagnosed with PTSD when he returned home. And this week, local volunteers spent a couple of days at his house, painting every room, to help make life a little easier for him.
It's part of Benjamin Moore's Color Care Across America.
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Ex-cop found dead in cell hours before sentencing
'Suicide by hanging' official cause of ex-cop's death
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Oct. 30, 2012
A former Westminster detective found dead in his jail cell Friday died of suicide by hanging, authorities said Tuesday.
The official cause of death of Anthony Nicholas Orban, 33, was announced by Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Orban, formerly of Irvine, was found unresponsive in his cell at 2:49 a.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the West Detention Center in San Bernardino. He was scheduled to be sentenced later that day to an effective term of life in prison for the April 3, 2010 kidnapping and rape of a former waitress at Ontario Mills Mall.
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Anthony Orban, facing life in prison for rape and kidnapping, killed himself Friday just hours before his scheduled sentencing.By GREG HARDESTY
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Oct. 30, 2012
A former Westminster detective found dead in his jail cell Friday died of suicide by hanging, authorities said Tuesday.
The official cause of death of Anthony Nicholas Orban, 33, was announced by Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Orban, formerly of Irvine, was found unresponsive in his cell at 2:49 a.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the West Detention Center in San Bernardino. He was scheduled to be sentenced later that day to an effective term of life in prison for the April 3, 2010 kidnapping and rape of a former waitress at Ontario Mills Mall.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Monument honors military service dogs
Monument honors military service dogs
By Sue Manning
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Oct 30, 2012
LOS ANGELES — The act of Congress is in the books, the bills are paid, the sculptures are being cast, and one of the biggest parades in the world will start a glory tour and countdown to dedication.
The first national monument to pay tribute to military dogs will be unveiled in California in just two months. The U.S. Working Dog Teams National Monument will honor every dog that has served in combat since World War II.
Some cities, cemeteries and military bases across the country already have such memorials. But none has been elevated to national monument level, where it will be in the company of the Statue of Liberty, Yosemite National Park and Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
In 2000, John Burnam, a 65-year-old veteran military dog handler, wrote a book called “Dog Tags of Courage.” A year later, he got an email from a reader wondering why there were no national monuments to the dogs of war.
In “Dog Tags” and a 2008 book, “A Soldier’s Best Friend,” Burnam wrote about his time with the Army’s 44th Scout Dog Platoon when he was in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968.
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By Sue Manning
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Oct 30, 2012
LOS ANGELES — The act of Congress is in the books, the bills are paid, the sculptures are being cast, and one of the biggest parades in the world will start a glory tour and countdown to dedication.
The first national monument to pay tribute to military dogs will be unveiled in California in just two months. The U.S. Working Dog Teams National Monument will honor every dog that has served in combat since World War II.
Some cities, cemeteries and military bases across the country already have such memorials. But none has been elevated to national monument level, where it will be in the company of the Statue of Liberty, Yosemite National Park and Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
In 2000, John Burnam, a 65-year-old veteran military dog handler, wrote a book called “Dog Tags of Courage.” A year later, he got an email from a reader wondering why there were no national monuments to the dogs of war.
In “Dog Tags” and a 2008 book, “A Soldier’s Best Friend,” Burnam wrote about his time with the Army’s 44th Scout Dog Platoon when he was in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968.
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