Veterans Voices- Post-Traumatic Stress and a Traumatic Brain Injury strain a marriage
- When doing everything right isn’t enough: A Marine’s suicide shows that even the unlikeliest veteran can fall through the cracks.
- The War Within: The battle against post-traumatic stress
- Brown Water Update: VA updates list of Vietnam Navy ships exposed to Agent Orange
- The War Within: Special Report on Post Traumatic Stress featured on WERE 1490 AM
- Brown Water Bungle: Paperwork error excluded hundreds of Vietnam Navy veterans from receiving Agent Orange benefits
- Toxic Legacy: A brief history of Agent Orange in Vietnam
- Broken System: Despite 30-year battle, federal court victory, Vietnam veteran’s disability claim remains unresolved
- Still Adrift: Congressional inaction sinks hope that ailing Vietnam Navy veterans will regain Agent Orange benefits
- Frank Buckles, last surviving U.S. World War I veteran, dies at age 110
Tag Archives: Afghanistan
When doing everything right isn’t enough: A Marine’s suicide shows that even the unlikeliest veteran can fall through the cracks.
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved) Of all the questions raised by Clay Hunt’s suicide, perhaps the most perplexing is this: why did a 28-year-old former Marine who was receiving VA health care, taking medications for post-traumatic stress … Continue reading
Tireless warrior: Kristy Kaufmann fights for military families
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved) For more than three years, Kristy Kaufmann has been one of the most prominent voices warning that too many of the nation’s military families are quietly crumbling. The wife of a battalion … Continue reading
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America’s Forgotten Military Families: Nine years of non-stop deployments, exhaustion, anticipatory grief — with no end in sight
Part I Op-tempo from hell By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010/All rights reserved) On a girls’ night out near Fort Bragg, N.C., Rebekah Sanderlin and her friends went around their circle and talked about which antidepressant each of them was taking. … Continue reading
