Cindy McCain Angers Vets in an Interview

In an article entitled, McCain's Wife Sets Combat Vets Back 30 Years with PTSD Remark, Vetvoice.com includes highlights from Cindy McCain's interview with MarieClaire.com: Q: You met your husband...

Austrian Man Raped Daughter Repeatedly, Fathered 6 Children Incest

Austrian man held Daughter Hostage, Raped Daughter, fathered 6 children through IncestAn incredible story of a missing woman,  found over The weekend, was held hostage, repeatedly Raped by her Father.  She...

Jailed Wisconsin Veteran Sent to Solitary Confinement, Seeks Help

An innocent and reportedly depressed Navy Airman Keith Roberts(1968-71) suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), andserving a four-year sentence for wire fraud since March 2007, has forreasons unclear been moved and caged in solitary confinement in afederal...

Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

Are Veterans More Likely to Commit Violent Crime?

Are Veterans More Likely to Commit Violent Crime? If you read the New York Times you would think so.  I remember reading a book called. "Damned Lies and Statistics" by Joel Best.   In this book, Best...

Iraq Vets and Mental Health

The Army “Betrays” Iraq War veterans   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6576505   This is another story that is outrageously absent from the mainstream media. NPR has...

Why Male Military Veterans Are Committing Sexual Assault at Alarming Rates

I find this disturbing.  - The Angryindian--------------------------------------From Intelligentaindigena Novajoservo :A recent study by the Department of Justice found that military veterans are twice as likely...

Website helps journalists test for emotional stress

MANILA, Philippines -- For journalists, especially those on coverage in war-torn areas, a few clicks on the Internet is all it takes to determine symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Carrying the title "War, Journalism and Stress", the site --...

For the VA and the Pentagon, an Injury isn't an Injury if it's Emotional

"ABC News' blog, The Blotter, reports that the Dept. of Veterans Affairs mismanaged funds to treat mental illness in veterans. "The Department of Veterans Affairs did not allocate all of the hundreds of millions of dollars that was to go to additional mental health...

Changed Assignments With Someone Who Did Not Want To Go

ARMY / MILITARY / INTERROGATION / SUICIDE

Visions of Peace -- A Combat Vet's Dream

A place to consider why we can't break the addiction to violence and war.

The Iraq War -- On Drugs

Wounded U.S. soldiers junked out on Valium and being returned to active duty in Iraq. Some committing suicide.

deserter seeks refuge in Canada

American soldier applies for asylum in Canada. Plus four other Americans from the U.S. Armed Forces.

Horrors of war haunt the nights

More than 30 years later, Vietnam Veterans experience recurrent nightmares. PTSD does exist. These men are not draft-dodgers.

The Vietnam War and PTSD

The Vietnam War produced tens of thousands of PTSD victims. More than anyone else, Vietnam Veteran's wives have seen the effects of PTSD.

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