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    Vietnam...Ongoing Tragedies...Ongoing Casualties

    APRIL 26, 2012 8:53PM

    By Seamoremonster


    Topics: los banos fugitive, ronald miranda murder case, war casualties, support our troops, ronnie miranda, post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd, vietnam war

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    Our Beginning in Ft. Riley Kansas

    FEBRUARY 1, 2012 2:27AM

    By Laura MaGuire


    Topics: non-fiction, ft, riley kansas, manhattan, kansas, operation desert storm, post traumatic stress disorder, marrying young

    • 7 Ratings
    • 473 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Encounter With a Fighter Jet

    OCTOBER 18, 2011 2:31PM

    By Sarah Cavanaugh


    Topics: destruction, weapons, military, jets, war, post traumatic stress disorder

    • 1 Ratings
    • 572 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Let's pay congress at the same rate we pay our troops

    APRIL 8, 2011 7:13PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: rep linda sanchez, government shutdown, oif, oef, afghanistan, iraq, libya, military, nonessential government, deployed troops, cost of freedom, military suicide, homeless veterans, ptsd, tbi, post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, wounded warriors, disabled veterans, military funerals, fallen soldiers, united states marine corps, us army, us navy, us air force, military families, support the troops, bring our troops home

    • 2 Ratings
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    The Cost of Playing Politics

    APRIL 6, 2011 7:52PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: bring our troops home, support the troops, military families, us air force, us navy, us army, united states marine corps, fallen soldiers, military funerals, disabled veterans, wounded warriors, traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, tbi, ptsd, homeless veterans, military suicide, cost of freedom, deployed troops, nonessential government, military, libya, iraq, afghanistan, oef, oif, government shutdown

    • 7 Ratings
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    • 19 Comments
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    The Forbidden Fruit

    FEBRUARY 14, 2011 9:19AM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, marines, marine corps, invisible wounds, spice, camp lejeune

    • 4 Ratings
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    • 5 Comments
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    God is bigger than the Marine Corps!

    OCTOBER 15, 2010 10:33AM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: marine corps, wounded warriors, wwbn-east, wounded warrior battalion east, dod inspector general, dod ig, congressman walter jones, jacksonville daily news, wounded warrior medical care, camp lejeune, ptsd, tbi, post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury

    • 5 Ratings
    • 819 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Silence Among the Generals

    AUGUST 27, 2010 4:40PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: mrap, greg jaffe, ssgt ownbey, traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, camp lejeune, tbi, ptsd, gen james amos, wwbn, wtu, wounded warrior battalion, army suicide prevention task force, col philbrick, marsoc, semper fidelis, ied, ltgen eric schoomaker, gen peter chiarelli, ltcol oliver north, col john l. mayer, claire mccaskill, mitch mcconnell, jim bunning, jim webb, ben chandler, joe sestak, kernan manion, richard simcock, gen conway, walter jones, sec of navy ray mabus, marine corps, suicide, wounded warriors

    • 9 Ratings
    • 893 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Lessons We Could Have Learned From Vietnam

    AUGUST 19, 2010 12:13PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: us navy, usaf, army, marine corps, sailors, airmen, marines, soldiers, combat, wounded warrior, iraq, afghanistan, vietnam, tbi, traumatic brain injury, ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, navy safe harbor, palace hart, wounded warrior battalion, wounded warrior regiment, wtu, warrior transition unit, walter reed medical center

    • 4 Ratings
    • 611 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    President Obama, You Are Only Fooling Yourself

    AUGUST 13, 2010 12:12PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: derrick rose, joakim noah, chris paul, carmelo anthony, lebron james, dwayne wade, shane battier, grant hill, magic johnson, bill russell, secret service, robert gibbs, veterans administration, traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, tbi, ptsd, congressman walter jones, fiscal year 2010 national defense authorization act, barbecue, joe biden, camp pendleton, dr jill biden, michelle obama, wounded warriors, maya moore, basketball, nba, hoops for troops, barack obama, veterans, military, marine, soldier, air force, marines, navy, army

    • 1 Ratings
    • 359 Views
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    Incompatible: Military Macho and the Mind

    AUGUST 11, 2010 1:36PM

    By Donna Carbone


    Topics: military, machismo, veterans administration, pentagon, armed forces, post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, military suicides, continental congress, american revolution, patton, donna carbone

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 2465 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    The Broken Heart of a Wounded Warrior’s Mother

    AUGUST 6, 2010 12:12AM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: ied explosion, semper fidelis, post traumatic stress disorder, tbi, ptsd, army, soldiers, romans 8:28, jonah chapter 2, camp lejuene, marines, wounded warriors, marine corps

    • 3 Ratings
    • 546 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Vice President Biden, what time is the barbecue?

    AUGUST 3, 2010 5:24PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: vice president biden, dr. jill biden, cliff stanley, michelle obama, wounded warrior battalion, camp lejeune, us marine corps, barbecue, post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd, traumatic brain injury, tbi, navy admiral mike mullen, military families, support troops, walter reed medical center

    • 4 Ratings
    • 1043 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    A Window View of Our Marines Fighting in Afghanistan

    AUGUST 1, 2010 8:44PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: politics, combat, traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, tbi, news, support the troops, war, navy, air force, army, marines, soldiers, afghanistan, ptsd, us marine corps, endgame in afghanistan, guardian.co.uk

    • 13 Ratings
    • 939 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Great Santini Meets Capt. Obvious--Thanks DOD & VA!

    JULY 16, 2010 9:29AM

    By Walter Blevins


    Topics: va, dod, homeless vets, ptst, post traumatic stress disorder, military brats, military dependents, school, military families, grants

    • 28 Ratings
    • 840 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    I was the Kool-aid mom

    JUNE 12, 2010 12:34PM

    By mypsyche


    Topics: post traumatic stress disorder, kool-aid, making sense of the world, victims of crime, originally published in aug 2009

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 7023 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Michelle Duggar to receive Mother of the Year award

    APRIL 21, 2010 10:31AM

    By Vyckie Garrison


    Topics: advanced training institute of america (atia), angelina jolie, ati, baby conference, baby conference: a historic family summit on the triumph of life over the culture of death, betrothal, big happy family, bill gothard, buddy system, character sketches, child abuse, child neglect, children are a blessing, christian families, christian motherhood, coercive religious groups, courtship, doug phillips, fundamentalism, homeschooling, hypocrisy, jackson duggar, jana duggar, jennifer duggar, jessa duggar, jill duggar, jim bob duggar, jinger duggar, josie duggar micro-preemie, kathryn joyce, ladies tea time, michael pearl, michelle duggar, mom of many, mother of the year award, post traumatic stress disorder, psalm 127, ptsd, quiverfull, quiverfull daughters, quiverfull: inside the christian patriarchy movement, quivering daughters, titus 2 woman, to train up a child, trusting the lord with family planning, vision forum, woman's submission, feminism, no longer quivering

    • 0 Ratings
    • 231 Views
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    Who we want to be is who we already are

    DECEMBER 22, 2009 5:23PM

    By Karen Louise


    Topics: process, rosa parks, post traumatic stress disorder, healing, tsunami

    • 0 Ratings
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    Terminator / Feminism

    DECEMBER 8, 2009 10:04PM

    By luzmcosta


    Topics: women, womanhood, watered-down lipstick feminism, twenty-first century, trauma, therapy, terrorism, terminator salvation, taking action, social anxiety, self-observation, salvation, rebellion, rape, ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, patriarchy, passivity, panic disorder, overcoming, movies, mental prison, mental illness, media message, lipstick feminism, kickboxing, hot young girl, hollywood, feminism, fear, empowerment, duty to society, coping, community of the abused, commercialism, analyzing, adulthood, action film, abuse

    • 17 Ratings
    • 684 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    My Parents After the War and the Camps

    FEBRUARY 25, 2009 7:16PM

    By john guzlowski


    Topics: family, post traumatic stress disorder, war, holocaust

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