Particularly from Brian Hanley. Here's some additional quantitative data that better decribes it...
I'm going to double-post this image b/c it's important. SPECT scans are allowing us to...
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Particularly from Brian Hanley. Here's some additional quantitative data that better decribes it...
I'm going to double-post this image b/c it's important. SPECT scans are allowing us to...
I'm going to double-post this image b/c it's important. SPECT scans are allowing us to understand the impact a bit more...
Here's the latest research. I've seen better images, but this is the...
MG (ret) Bob Scales gave a Vietnam Veteran appreciation speech at the Truman Library. Some wise words that I wanted to pass along. H/T to Craig Mullaney.
As I've had the opportunity to talk...
and no offense taking...Three years ago, I would have probably replied the same way you did- until I went through it. To say it sucked is an understatement- I went through a period where my life was...
Schmedlap,
I've gone through the effects of PTSD and TBI. I've been very open about the horrors and the crazyness in SWJ as an example...I don't like the categorization and labeling of the...
Just one comment to add to Schmedlap and Ken's wisdom.
A good leader has a feel for his boys. If you notice someone is "off," then you should engage him in an appropriate way particularly if an...
So true...
I grieve that neither grief nor fear will teach me nothing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, On Nature
v/r
Mike
Before I walk again, you can at least but read my words.....
You concern yourself
Wandering when I’ll break
Wondering when the time will come
I passed the moment moons ago
I laugh
At your...
Waiting like a siphoning angel
No one knows they cannot be sure
Gorging in the pit
Suffering evermore
Who will step aside
who will volunteer
In these times of gluttony
Armagedon not today
Airborne, Ken.
Balance is relative. Upon graduation, I'll deploy on my fifth deployment in under ten years. I expect the next ten years to remain on the same pace.
That is the reality of the...
Once again my friend
I enter the breach of no end
will you join
or remain forlorn
amused by your IPod?
Distractions bemuse your content
too busy
to worry about such trifle subjects as war
Sir/Ma'am,
For a moment, I ask you to listen...
Unfortunately, some of you will never understand what I consider...Mostly Airforce and Navy, just delete this email now so you don't get ever...
There are people i think of and people I often see, but with most of them, my life would not be worse if they were not around....
I am blessed; however, with knowing some who affect my life in...
I've had some long discussions about this subject with veterans from different wars. In this case, I left Iraq early to attend school. It left me unnerved as I said goodbye to my brothers abrubtly....
Keep this in mind as you consider your thoughts...I wrote about it in SWJ in "Love and Hate."
1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers 26 23 April 2007 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry, 3rd BCT, 82nd Airborne...
Sometimes I forget to say,
"Welcome home brothers....Thank YOU for your service."
Last week, one of my boys was killed by his wife in an accident. Keep that in mind as you conduct safety...
I used Wicked Problems literature to erase all the lines and come back with only one. It works for me.
Unfortunately, I gotta take it slow right now and let my brain heal a bit. Right before my...
Persistent Presence
Not in my town claims the mayor as the hamlet burns in anarchy
Self-denial self-inflicted in meaningless promises turned towards lethargy
Obscuring transgressions against...
Thanks goesh. I was able to articulate and publish this experience because I made it through. I decided to let my final psychotherapy session be published for free because it can help others.
If...
what I took everyone through was what the native americans call a sweat. we now call it medication and therapy...Every society has done this for their warriors...Every society except us....It is how...
As Delivered
5-73 Cavalry “Headhunters” Ball Remarks
LTG William B. Caldwell, IV
071129
Throughout my thirty one years of service, I have talked to countless units
about their...
Initially, I did not know where this would lead.
Just one long brutal honest conversation.
Throughout this process,
I found the true meaning of Easter.
Not just turkey, yams, and jellybeans
I...
What is the point of all of this?
This is just my White Paper on PTSD and mTBI.
See as a survivor, I didn't know how to step out of the arena. I had to figure that out myself. So, I did...
Until next time...
Walk with me....
Invitation open...
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA (SEPT 2007-JAN 2009)
“Once you face death, once you overcome your fears, then you are free to live.* These are the lessons that I've learned....
I will martyr myself with...