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PTSD: The Silent Enemy

Addiction, alcoholism, failed marriages, failures as a parent, on and on. Homelessness. Yes, PTSD takes no prisoners and does not discriminate.

(DANANG, Vietnam) - Fear, paranoia, procrastination, self destruction, isolation, depression – I can go on and on with adjectives and descriptions. The feelings are so familiar to so many of us.

The disease is insidious. We think the feelings go away, just to find out after days of feeling good, they come right back and kick our ass.

Army Chaplain Killed in Afghanistan: Some Go the Extra Mile

The last Army chaplain lost in combat was Phillip Nichols. He was also killed in October 1970 by a hidden explosive device planted by the enemy.

(KABUL / SALEM) - A U.S. Army chaplain was killed along with four other soldiers Monday, when the HUMVEE they were traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb.

The Chaplain, Army Captain Dale Goetz of the 4th Infantry Division, is the first Army clergyman to die in combat since the Vietnam War, 40 years ago.

Movie Review: NFLer and U.S. Army Soldier Pat Tillman`s Real Story Told

For his sacrifice, leadership, and character, his body was hatefully used as propaganda.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals safety who enlisted in the Army Rangers eight months after September 11, read Emerson, Chomsky, and, though an atheist, the Bible. Resembling a beefier Seann William Scott, he shunned cell phones, cars, and professional-athlete megalomania.

A fiercely private (and principled) person, his death in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, during his second tour of duty, was spun by the Bush II administration into a recruiting tool.

Military T.B.I. and Nurse Katherine Helmick: Are There 1,000,000 PTSD & T.B.I. VICTIMS?

Penetrating Brain Injuries sound pretty drastic but surgical intervention saves many from typical seizures/epilepsy.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Every once in a while I just fall into serendipity. On August 28, 2010, I chanced to turn on C-Span and here was N.P. (Nurse Practitioner) Katherine Helmick, B.S., M.S., Senior Executive Director of the Military Traumatic Brain Injury Project.

I was astonished to see that an N.P. had such a high medical position. Don’t get me wrong. My daughter is an N.P. and she is sharp! So is N.P. Helmick.

Death and Destruction: the Real Face of Western Value

Greedy Politicians, Profiteers, Cooperative greedy culture, world domination.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Salem-News.com YouTube page receives a growing amount of traffic every day and along with that, constant pitches for friendship from fellow YouTube users all over the world.

Many items sent to our newsroom here end up as Salem-News.com articles and reports, and the video included below is no exception to that rule. We live in a world of war and pain and death and violence, where people perish in larger numbers sometimes than ever before in the past.

An In-Depth Look at Salem-News.com Writers and Topics

An Editor's thoughts on managing the daily flow of a high traffic news Website.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Our goal from the first day has been to offer a product for news viewers that is helpful and educational, fast, non-invasive and undemanding, relevant and honest. We are bound to no political party and yet we do speak out clearly about certain issues.

Consider this an overview of who we are and what we do. There are many things always taking place at once as there are in any daily news environment; this article is a summary of that, and also contains information about future plans for the site.

Controversy Over Muslim Cultural Center Near Ground Zero

Racism and bigotry are alive and well in America.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Lost in the shuffle about the protests of building a cultural center near Ground Zero is that a number of Muslims died at the towers that day -- not just the nut cases in the planes -- and that nearly all Muslims adamantly opposed the actions and events that took place on 9/11, and denounced them strongly, saying that the Islamic religion in no way condones it.

The controversy has been inaccurately dubbed the "Ground Zero mosque."

Public Enemy Number One: the American Press

Stealing America's freedoms like a thief in the night...

(CINCINNATI) - It’s 2010 and a few members of congress have noted that we have a corruption problem in Afghanistan. Over a period of 9 years. $2.4 trillion dollars has been stolen with a dozen enquiries, dozens of reports, audits, all saying the same thing.

The “war on terror” was more “pickpocketing” and not so much “Osama bin Waldo.” It’s 2010 and reports are trickling in that, just maybe, terrorist mastermind Osama has been dead for years and years.

Bin Laden is Dead; Long Live `Bin Laden`

Who’s keeping the terror myth alive?

(OSAKA, Japan) - In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated “evildoer” prove a negative.

Iraq was invaded because it couldn’t prove that it didn’t have WMDs. Iran is under constant threat of attack unless it can demonstrate that it’s not seeking nuclear weapons. And now Pakistan is being chastised for allegedly harbouring Osama bin Laden—who in all probability has been dead and buried for eight years.

Amnesty International Condemns First Taleban Executions by Stoning in Afghanistan Since 2001

So much for justice in Afghanistan.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - A couple were stoned to death on Sunday for ‘eloping’, in a Taleban-controlled village in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Amnesty International confirmed today.

“The stoning of this couple is a heinous crime. The Taleban and other insurgent groups are growing increasingly brutal in their abuses against Afghans” said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director.