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Obama, GOP Air Differences Over Jobs, Economy In Thanksgiving Addresses

AP/ The Huffington Post | By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this...

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9 Ways To Show Your Gratitude On Thanksgiving Day

HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact

Favorite Turkey Recipe? Check. Special occasion dishes and gravy boat? Check, check. Ways to express your gratitude this Thanksgiving? Don't worry, we...

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Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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Cartoon: Fort Hood

Shan Wells | Posted 11.11.2009 | Denver

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Fort Hood soldiers remembered.

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Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

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The Ft. Hood Killer - Guilty, But Not Evil

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Ft Hood Shooting, Soldiers, Mark Goulston, Major Hasan, Ft. Hood, World News

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was not a bad person. He was even possibly a good person. But he was a very sick person who did a terrible thing.

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McClatchy: Obama Leaning Toward 34,000 More Troops For Afghanistan

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...

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Lawrence O'Donnell Slams Liz Cheney For Criticizing Obama's Trip To Honor Fallen Soldiers (VIDEO)

Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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On "Countdown" Friday night, host Lawrence O'Donnell called out Liz Cheney for criticizing President Obama's visit to Dover Air Force Base to honor th...

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Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, Children, Cspan, Addictions, Big Money, Roger Ailes, Bad Luck, Parenthood, Reagan, Cnbc, Injury Settlements, Lexington KY, 401k, Richmond Ky, Morning in America, Ncaa Basketball, Strippers, McNay Settlement Group, Inheritances, Rumeal Robinson, Tough Love, Bankruptcy, Retirement, Retired and Broke, Medical Expenses, Fox Business News, Clu, Just Say No, Soldiers, Enabling, The American College, Million Dollar Round Table, College Tuition, Foreclosures, Ambition, Helen Ford, Frontline, Special Needs Children, John Prine, Miami News Times, Ohio University, Budgeting, Msnbc, Failure to Launch, Financial Crisis, Aarp, Senior Citizen Bankruptcy, Personal Finance, Newsweek, Balanced Life, Msfs, Borrowing Money, Lotteries, Chfc, Foster Children, Kentucky, Don McNay, NBA Basketball, www.mcnay.com, Structured Settlements, www.donmcnay.com, Mortgage, Vanderbilt University, Eastern Kentucky University, Fox News, University of Michigan, Afghanistan, Mooching, Cssc, Caddilac, Business News

You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.

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Camp Bucca: Military Closes Largest Detention Camp In Iraq

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...

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Practical Therapy for Soldiers' Depression

Thomas Scheff | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Lists, Therapy, Depression, Soldiers, Ethiopia, Mental Health, Boy Scouts, New York Times, Time Magazine, Living News

Soldiers, especially male soldiers in or anticipating combat, need time and the confidence to cry, resolve their fears, acknowledge their shame, and deal with their other emotions.

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Watch This Is Where We Take Our Stand And Help the Voices of Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Go Viral

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Soldiers, Afghanistan, Iraq, Winter Soldier, This Is Where We Take Our Stand," Displaced Films, "Sir No Sir," "David Zeiger" "Perry O'Brien, Vets, Winter Soldier Project, Iraq Veterans Against the War, War, World News

This groundbreaking, web-only series tells the story of last year's Winter Soldier Iraq/Afghanistan hearings from the inside

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Army: 4 Soldiers Killed In Colo. Helicopter Crash

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 09.20.2009 | Home

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DENVER — Four soldiers died after a Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a training mission on Colorado's second-highest mountain, the Army's Sp...

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Obama Celebrates Post-9/11 G.I. Bill

AP | JULIE PACE and KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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FAIRFAX, Va. — President Barack Obama said Monday a new GI Bill for those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan is an investment in both a new gene...

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Gut Feelings: Soldiers Make Good Use Of Intuition

nytimes.com | Benedict Carey | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Soldiers, Battle, US Soldiers, Brain, Iraq War, Intuition, Psychology, Battle Intuition, The Inner Life, Living News

The sight was not that unusual, at least not for Mosul, Iraq, on a summer morning: a car parked on the sidewalk, facing opposite traffic, its windows ...

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Healing Soliders' Hidden Wounds

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Marc Kielburger, Soldiers, Mental Health, Craig Kielburger, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, Living News

The men standing firm-footed with their arms outstretched are not your typical yoga students. They are warriors - actual ones, not just spiritual.

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Punting on Israeli Army Boot Camp

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 08.11.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Mental Health, Boot Camp, Mental Illness, Soldiers, Israeli Military, Army, Miliary, Israei Military Exercises, World News

Inside a firing simulator, someone says that I am shaking my head. I am, not because I am afraid of shooting but because I am convinced that nearly all of the guys are against me.

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Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military

Dahr Jamail | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

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In addition to small numbers of outright public refusals to deploy or redeploy, troops are going absent without official leave (AWOL) between deployments, and actual desertions may once again be on the rise.

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Army Opens Doors To White Supremacists: Salon

Salon | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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In a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his f...

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Sacrifice Repaid: A Huffington Post Cause?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Soldiers, Mark Goulston, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Veterans, Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Living News

It's not enough to honor servicemen and women with parades. We need to repay their sacrifice with the resources they need and deserve.

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Lets Show US Troops in Iraq That Americans Have Changed

Rob Tacy | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pow, Iraq War, Soldiers, US Soldiers, Mia, Vietnam War, Iraq, Politics News

Let's show our brave men and women, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters who fought in Iraq that the sacrifices they have made for our continued safety have been appreciated.

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Part II: Soldier Who Killed Herself -- After Refusing to Take Part in Torture

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Kayla Williams, Soldier Suicides, Alyssa Peterson, Suicide, Soldiers, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

What caused Alyssa Peterson to put a bullet in her head in September 2003 after just a few weeks in Iraq? And why were the press and the public not told about it?

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Now We See Coffins Coming Home -- But What About the Other Missing Photos of War?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Soldiers, Iraq, Troops, Casualties, Afghanistan, Media News

While showing the coffins coming home is important, showing how the brave service members ended up in that state has always been more important.

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On Sixth Anniversary of War: Suicides Skyrocketing

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.19.2009 | World

Read More: Suicides, Soldiers, Afghanistan, Iraq, Troops, Sixth-Anniversary-of-Iraq-War, World News

In the Army alone, 18 troops committed suicide in February -- down six from January's high, but still above what they expected. Top brass in the military continue to be evasive about the problem.

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Pentagon Phasing Out "Stop-Loss" Policy

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Stop-Loss, Warwire, Stop Loss Program, US Troops, Soldiers, US Soldiers, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Army this summer will start cutting back on use of the unpopular practice of holding troops beyond their enlistment dates and h...

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