Looks like a good book.

Max Cleland: Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove

use the link to read all of the article.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113506152

Foreword

An Open Letter to America's Veterans

America sends the flower of its youth abroad to fight its wars. Because of that, America's military is always staffed with the stoutest, finest,...

Hi Ladies!

This is General Information about Claims. (I am almost always speaking of claims in general but specifically highlight PTSD/MST claims ).

You can file and "INFORMAL CLAIM" and have 1 year to file a "FORMAL CLAIM".

An Informal Claim filing date is the start-date for lump-sum $$ accrual paid to you when you are rated at whatever percentage you win.


A Formal Claim can be started after the Informal at...

The only times I remember the hand of my uncle up my skirt, or the rapist's gun at my head, is when it helps another woman.

Tonight I have been writing with a woman who was also raped, and we seem to have connected due to shared trauma.

The term "peer support" seems too vague a term to describe what the sound of a woman's voice - the voice of understanding - can do to my soul. It gives me permission to be, to be alive and to be well.

There is something...

today was a harsh reminder of the reality of my deployment to iraq.

my phone rang - a number i did not recognize. initially i didn't answer, but after three missed calls from the same number, i called back. it was my previous brigade commander who now works at the pentagon. he just returned from a five-day visit to iraq, taking previous wounded warriors back to see how the country has transformed...

first, know that we are all alive and okay, he began - my first clue...

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She was just tired. That's all.
So very tired.
Life isn't safe, honeybunch,
Life isn't safe.






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