By NPR Staff, March 18, 2012 – “Troops’ Mental Health: How Much Is Unknown?” Transcript of Weekend Edition Sunday, Host Rachel Martin, March 18, 2012 Information from the above two NPR articles was combined to make this posting The killing of 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday March 11 is now one of the greatest points […]
By Kevin Freking, Associated Press, March 3 2012 Two years after Congress passed a high-profile law to improve health care for military veterans, lawmakers and advocates are again raising alarms that the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs is not expanding help for the nation’s former fighters and their families as quickly or widely as intended. […]
From the Tacoma News-Tribune, December 30, 2011 Joint Base Lewis-McChord passed an unwelcome milestone in 2011, recording more soldier suicides than in any previous year. Twelve soldiers took their own lives in 2011, up from nine in 2010 and nine in 2009, Army I Corps spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield said. The total could grow […]
Interview published in the Oregonian, September 27, 2011 Question: You speak of the rising rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, alcohol use and those sort of symptoms in the military. What do you see is driving that? Answer: It’s become to some extent, a politicized concern with a dubious policy approach. The reality of it is […]
Editorial from The Oregonian, August 31, 2011 READ – Mike Francis’ terrific story on the life and death of Matt Brennan, TThe life and death of an Oregon Guardsman illustrates a national tragedy. U.S. soldiers are fighting a stigma, struggling with trauma, and dying Until last month, if a U.S. soldier killed himself in a […]
From The Oregonian, August 28, 2011 As a child, Matthew Michael Brennan wore Michael Jordan’s replica jersey everywhere he went. He played youth basketball and football, and later, on the offensive line at Tualatin High School. He was disconsolate when his beloved Miami Hurricanes lost the national championship football game. He tweeted about the Lakers. […]
From the Longview Daily News, August 20, 2011 Mike Szpakiewitz got an apartment last week. The simple act was monumental for the 58-year-old, who after 20 years in military service and years in custom cabinetry and car repair, had sunk into depression and homelessness. Tom Hunter, who served a total of 17 years in the […]
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR) – May 2, 2010 Two and a half years ago, Adam Elsman Wehinger held a .357 pistol to his throat and begged police to kill him. On Friday night, the 34-year-old man’s wish was fulfilled when Jackson County sheriff’s deputies shot him dead following a 90-minute standoff in downtown Eagle Point. […]
By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian , Oct. 31, 2009 Later, after the defense attorney wept and the judge put away his robe and the jurors drove home in the fading light, the consequences of war hung over this town of 1,845 like wood smoke on an autumn eve. Fourteen months earlier, a young woman lay […]
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