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Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: 'Hot Pocket' Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.08.2012

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Jim Gaffigan recently spoke with me about why he's reaching out to military families, why becoming famous has been both a blessing and a curse, and why his stand-up doesn't need swear words to hit home.

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Walter Reed Reuse Plan Forum Scheduled For Wednesday

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Walter Reed Local Redevelopment Authority is hosting a community forum Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., to discuss the Walter Reed A...

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Walter Reed Medical Center Merger Costs $1B More Than Original Estimate

Posted 10.31.2011

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After a century of rehabilitating veterans, The Walter Reed Medical Center discharged its last patient on Saturday in preparation for its merger with ...

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Vet Killed on Coaster: Questions Swirl After Fall at Theme Park

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 09.09.2011

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 208-foot-tall roller coaster in upstate New York remained closed Sunday amid questions about the falling death of an Iraq war ...

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Afghanistan War's Enduring Legacy: A Surge In U.S. Troops Suffering Double And Triple Amputations

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 07.30.2011

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American soldiers and Marines walking combat patrols in Afghanistan have suffered a surge of gruesome injuries, losing one or both legs and often thei...

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Congresswoman Giffords Benefits From Civilian/Military Health Care Cooperation That Navy Attempts to Dismantle

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

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Giffords' survival to this day is vivid testimony to the effectiveness of our Department of Defense and civilian medical communities not just to patient care but to the dissemination of information and training.

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Beyond Sorrow: The Resilience Of The Human Spirit

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Commonly we find resiliency through connection: to nature, to community, to inner strengths, to a sense of life bigger than the circumstances we see in front of us.

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Bob Dole Reportedly Hospitalized

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: A spokesman tells Amy Walter of ABC News that Dole was admitted to the hospital on Thursday but has since been released. -- Bob Dole has...

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While Husband Serves Abroad, Military Wife Becomes Mrs. Claus This Season

MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Tracy Hall, whose husband Jonathan is currently serving in Afghanistan, noticed that the children of wounded or deployed soldiers weren't getting...

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3 Comments on Chairman of the Joint Chiefs' Memorandum

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the Department of Defense squanders over 1.5 Billion dollars on the less than average New Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Admiral M...

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Walter Reed Closure Begins; Wounded Warriors Surge

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

As a truly world class rehabilitation facility closes at Walter Reed, that facility is being replaced by fragmented and geographically separate facilities. Now care for our combat wounded is about to suffer further.

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Afghanistan: 9th Anniversary. Anyone Give a Damn?

Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011

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The invasion of Afghanistan's ninth anniversary passed in DC this week with hardly a notice. Media desperate to illustrate the story flocked to a sm...

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Infamous Army Hospital May Have Exposed Patients, Staff To Nuclear Material

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The military's flagship hospital has acknowledged it mishandled two packages of radioactive material in May, possibly exposing staf...

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Perfecting a More Perfect Union

Morris Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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My father was a 100 percent disabled veteran of World War II. He left home a healthy man in the prime of life and returned seriously disabled by a br...

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McChrystal, Sympton not Cause; DoD Healthcare Debacle Continues

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

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DoD Photo McChrystal is a symptom and not a cause of the problems within the Department of Defense (DoD). For far too long, the folks at the Pentago...

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Noel Koch Ousted: Pentagon's Head Wounded-Warrior Care Official Forced To Resign

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon official in charge of the wounded warrior program said Sunday he has been forced to resign, as the military continues to s...

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Soldiers Call Army Trauma Units 'Worse Than Iraq'

New York Times | JAMES DAO and DAN FROSCH | Posted 05.25.2011

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A year ago, Specialist Michael Crawford wanted nothing more than to get into Fort Carson's Warrior Transition Battalion, a special unit created to pro...

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Diversion of Wounded From Walter Reed to Less Capable Hospitals Ordered (Part II) the Sanctity of BRAC

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Department of Defense (DoD) continues to resist Congressional concerns for military healthcare at Walter Reed and the transformation of military h...

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More Troops, More Rotations, More PTSD: Will Positive Psychology Save Our Soldiers?

Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 11.17.2011

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Positive psychology may be worthwhile for corporate team building and personal growth, but does it have the mojo to counter the profound despair and disorientation that comes from the horrors of combat?

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Make Navy Bethesda a Joint Military Installation

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fort Myers, long a venerated Army post, is now a joint military installation. The transformation displayed extreme common sense and, by all accounts,...

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General Petraeus Joins Troops Diagnosed With Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

In 2003 General Petraeus led the troops into the massive battle of "shock and awe" in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 101st Airborne was the first to pav...

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Nidal Hasan Warned Army During 2007 Walter Reed Speech, Urged Release Of Muslims From US Military

Washington Post | Dana Priest | Posted 05.25.2011

The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "a...

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Postage and Other Economic Outrages Against Soldiers

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.

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Fort Hood Killings: No Safe Place from Invisible Wounds of War

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.

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Obama Walter Reed Visit On Martin Luther King Jr Day

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is visiting wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A day after laying a wreath at the Tom...

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