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A Veteran in America: Trying to Find the Way Home

Despite centuries of war, there is no successful strategy that helps veterans re-integrate into a comfortably ignorant, binary world.

(ALAMEDA, Calif.) - Jason Moon's mother tells him that as a young child he loved writing songs and that during long car trips he'd share his songs with her. Today, he's writing songs again. But for more than five years following his return from a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, he could barely write a line.

Moon deployed to Talil Airbase in 2003. 5 years later he was ready to testify at the four-day long Winter Soldier hearings held in in Silver Spring, Maryland.

PTSD, Grief/Anguish, Therapy/Catharsis: Time Magazine Prints Good News About Grief

The VA shrinkologists call PTSD depression which it usually is not. Anguish or maybe profound grief from the loss of close buddies or direct damage to the soul.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The most common injury of combat of those still alive is PTSD.

It is probably most certain that many Purple Heart veterans had/have PTSD also.

`Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy` for Wounded Politicians, But Not Injured Troops?

Though top brain specialists have endorsed cognitive rehabilitation as an effective treatment for brain injury, Tricare officials have said that scientific evidence does not justify providing it comprehensively to troops.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was transferred today to TIRR Memorial Hermann, a premier rehab hospital renowned for its treatment of traumatic brain injuries.

The hospital calls itself “one of very few hospitals in the country designated as a model system for traumatic brain injury.” One technique is cognitive rehabilitation therapy. The treatment is denied to America's war injured...

Stress, PTSD, Drug Dangers, Alcohol, Tobacco and Death - the Reality

Most people (Baboons included) are subject to various levels or severity of stress.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - For those who read my postings on this continuum of reality, you know what I am writing about. For any new readers let me put this together starting at square one.

I got my inspiration from a documentary on OPB called KILLER STRESS which is a very important and suitable name.

Traumatized Soldiers are Being Redeployed to War

The United States redeploys traumatized American soldiers and marines to Iraq and Afghanistan, giving a rise to the suicide rate among service members, says a peace activist.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - "Even though they are suffering from mental trauma, from PTSD, they are often redeployed to Iraq or Afghanistan without treatment," Dr. Dahlia Wasfi said in a Sunday interview with Press TV's US Desk.

This while suicide rates among American soldiers and Marines, particularly those serving overseas, is on the rise.

Oregon`s Medical Marijuana Doctor Reviews Up`s and Down`s of 2010

Americans are learning that cannabis poses no threat to their way of life, and in fact may enhance it, with their doctor's okay.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Dr. Phil Leveque and Bonnie King of Salem-News.com discuss the progress and development of medical marijuana.

Though it did not pass, California's Proposition 19 changed the way Americans, not just Californians, looked at the entire subject. Dr. Leveque comments that Proposition 19 and Oregon's Measure 74 brought the broader subject of medicinal use to a new group of people, and increased advocacy of the herb across the entire United States.

Combat Infantry Badge: The Most Dangerous Decoration

The Combat Infantryman should have some special recognition because it was he who did the fighting, killing, wounding and dying.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Few people who are not Combat Infantrymen know or understand the significance of this most honorable badge. Many of those who earned and wore it above all other decorations often wish they didn’t have it.

As for it, I’m as proud of it as I am of my two doctor's degrees. The Combat Infantry badge C.I.B. is by far the most dangerous decoration. Many of you do not have the slightest idea what I’m talking about.

A Holiday Message from Veterans Today

Veterans Today exists to end the unnecessary cycles of war.

(CINCINNATI) - The holidays are a time to remember what things are all about, why we are who we are, why we fight wars and why so many have sacrificed so much. It isn’t a time for blame, for envy, for recriminations.

Dioxin and Glioblastoma in the Vietnam Veteran Population

Summary and recommendations for IOM open session Albuquerque NM 2010.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The tracking of glioblastomas in the aging population of Vietnam veterans exposed to dioxin has been neglected.

The poorly researched and nonsensical U.S. AIR FORCE RANCH HAND study has been sighted as evidence. The Seveso Italy incident is also used as evidence.

America`s War Veterans: PTSD and its Cure

If the suffering veterans of America can forge a movement to loudly say NO to the vile indignities being heaped upon us right here at home in the land of the free, they can make a difference to their own healing.

(LOS ANGELES) - The two American websites, Veterans Today and Salem News, run by two former US Military veterans, contain some of the most outstanding RealitySpeak writings by both civilians and America's war veterans, presumably, all mostly being eagerly ingested by other American war veterans.

In full disclosure, these websites also reprint my two cents every now and then.