Openly Healing War's Hidden Wounds
Stephanie's husband, Michael, returned from Iraq in body, but he was plagued by unrecognized post traumatic stress. After six months stateside, he com...
Stephanie's husband, Michael, returned from Iraq in body, but he was plagued by unrecognized post traumatic stress. After six months stateside, he com...
American Anthropological Association | Posted 03.29.2012
Militarism in the U.S. seems to have a gravitational force pulling a wide array of resources and sectors into its orbit. Our involvement with Iraq serves as a case study for how deeply rooted militarism is in American culture and political life.
Posted 03.21.2012
Though recent government initiatives incentivize businesses to hire veterans, the overall unemployment rate for those who served after September 11 in...
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.08.2012
The extraordinary documentary On the Bridge bares the deep psychic wounds of America's returning vets.
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.30.2012
WASHINGTON -- It took almost 60 years for World War II veterans to get a monument in Washington. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened less than a deca...
Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.24.2012
A national ticker-tape parade to honor and thank our returning Iraq war veterans. There should not be much controversy about such occasions. But there is.
Posted 02.22.2012
By Associated Press HYDE PARK, N.Y. Julio Gerena is in a wheelchair, his long career in the U.S. Navy and Army forever behind him. But the 52-year-...
Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.17.2012
The Pentagon had to -- in just a few days -- select 64 troops to represent the 1.5 million American men and women who fought in Iraq.
AP | JIM SALTER | Posted 04.04.2012
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans was such a hit that at least 10 other cities around the ...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 03.18.2012
It's now 10 years after the indefinite detention prison of Guantanamo was created. With the recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act broadening, the U.S. government seems to have given up on ever righting itself.
Posted 01.08.2012
Though racing long distances in his prosthetic legs is painful, that didn't keep Lance Corporal Matias Ferreira from completing the half marathon in D...
Posted 01.06.2012
Donations poured in when Dr. Lorin Lindner and her husband Matt Simmons became vocal about adopting 29 wolf dogs from Alaska -- including from celebri...
www.militarytimes.com | Posted 01.03.2012
A decade of fighting has claimed the lives of more than 130 members of the military who called Tennessee home, and the loss has felt especially keen i...
Al Eisele | Posted 03.02.2012
With the final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, I remember the four young Marines and a Navy corpsman I met in Baghdad in March 2005 at Camp Victory.
Benjamin Cossel | Posted 02.27.2012
The San Diego Police Department has cited Iraq war veteran Marine Lance Cpl. John Canter for carrying an American flag at Civic Center Plaza, home to the Occupy San Diego movement.
Ryan McDermott | Posted 02.07.2012
While waiting in the Kuwaiti desert, I wrote letters to my son as if they might serve as a way for him of understanding why I went to war. For me, writing the letters was a coping mechanism for dealing with the separation.
Joseph Bobrow | Posted 01.18.2012
If we cultivate the intention to be of help, if we take the time and energy to listen and connect, if we realize that the responsibility for healing, the impact of war is collective. It takes a village and it begins with each of us.
Wendy K. Leigh | Posted 01.15.2012
An Iraq War veteran serving as a volunteer medic for participants in the Occupy Seattle movement alleges he was maced 23 times in the face by Seattle police while attempting to render aid to protestors during the November 2 protest at a downtown Chase Bank.
AP | Posted 01.01.2012
PASADENA, Calif. — J.R. Martinez, the "Dancing With the Stars" contestant, "All My Children" daytime soap opera star and Iraq War veteran seriou...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.27.2011
WASHINGTON -- Scott Olsen, the 24-year-old Iraq War veteran and Occupy activist suffering from a head injury after being hit with a police projectile ...
Ward Carroll | Posted 12.27.2011
Whatever the outcome it's doubtful that military historians will label it as a "victory," and that combined with the toll the war has exacted should serve as a cautionary tale for all of us.
Posted 12.26.2011
Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was injured after being hit in the head with a police projectile at Occupy Oakland. Olsen's family is waiting to see i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Oakland Police Department fired tear gas on Occupy Oakland demonstrators Tuesday night as they marched through downtown, determined ...
Posted 11.19.2011
An Iraq War veteran was found guilty on Friday of murder in the first degree of his girlfriend Brittney Brashers, 22, but not guilty of soliciting the...
Adam Clampitt | Posted 11.14.2011
While support ebbs and flows for America's operations abroad, it must remain constant for the select few who chose to pursue a life of service.
Joseph Bobrow | Posted 04.12.2012