When The Shooting Stops

With so much else going on in the news – a horrific mass shooting in Colorado, a huge election year and, of course, the economy—it is far too easy for the average American to forget that we...

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Earlier this week, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.  The following are brief profiles of those we have lost. St...

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In a political year filled with more stupid statements than Mitt Romney has offshore bank accounts, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton unleashed a doozy yesterday.  While discussing the recent legal...

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There was a good post recently on the Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE ) blog about some of the false assumptions surrounding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and some truths to help kno...

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The Department of Defense announced yesterday the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Michael E. Ristau, 25, of Rockford, Ill., died July 13 in Qalat, Zabul...

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.           Spc. Sterling W. Wyatt, 21, of Columbia, Mo., died July 11, in ...

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I love dogs and there's nothing like a story like this from the Defense Department to make me appreciate their service to mankind even more. The piece features, Lobo and his handler, Army Staf...

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The Department of Defense announced yesterday the death of six soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died in a massive explosion on July 8, of wounds suffered when enemy...

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The Department of Defense announced this week the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Cpl. Juan P. Navarro, 23, of Austin, Texas, died July 7, in Kandahar, Afgha...

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Well, I suppose this is something, even if the rest of us still get treated like terrorists... The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced yesterday that it is planning new proce...

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Like almost everyone else in the Congress, Republican Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional district voted to give President George W. Bush authority to invade Ira...

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Jonathan Batista, 22, of Kinnelon, N.J., died July 8, in Zharay, Kandahar ...

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When our men and women in uniform go to war, they know that their safe return can be a crapshoot and that multiple deployments to a combat zone can, to put it mildly, tempt fate to the limit. ...

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Good news came out of the Department of Labor on Friday with the announcement that unemployment for Iraq and Afghanistan-era Veterans dropped over three full percentage points to 9.5 percent ...

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The Department of Defense announced Wednesday the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Pfc. Cody O. Moosman, 24, of Preston, Idaho, died July 3, in Gayan Alwara M...

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A sad rerun from my friend, cartoonist Paul Jamiol ...

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Tammy Duckworth, the highly-decorated former Army helicopter pilot, who lost both legs under enemy attack in Iraq, doesn't need to explain herself to anyone -- and certainly not to Tea Party da...

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For the first few years after being discharged from the military, many Veterans who have experienced combat and the serious bangs and booms that go along with it, have a difficult time on July ...

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The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died June 24, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  Both were assigned to the 9...

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Here's a new song about war just released by Marc 'Mpulse' Maxfield.  It's dedicated to his brother, Michael, who is currently serving in Afghanistan and features his mother -- and a Facebook bu...

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Excellent piece today at  The Raw Story in which Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks about the strains that America's most recent wars have caused on military ...

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Almost 9,000 homeless Veterans are going to begin getting more help starting July 1, thanks to a $15 million grant announced last week by the Department of Labor.  The funding is part of the H...

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The Department of Defense announced Friday the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             They died June 27, in Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, A...

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Starting on Memorial Day -- and slipping very much under the radar -- was the beginning of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, which will be observed in many ways throug...

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The Department of Defense announced yesterday the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Matthew J. Leach, 29, of Ferndale, Mich., died June 26, in Kand...

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