It is crushing to read stories like this and to see what an ungrateful nation we really are. Worse, how we disregard our veterans is not recent occurence but has been a blemish on our history since the revolutionary war. Today,...
Read MoreThanks to Bob Fischer for arranging this! From 3 to 5 p.m., on Sunday, December 2nd, Dr. Richard Staggenborg will be speaking in the Sprague Community Room at the Bandon Public Library. His topic will be “Coping with...
Read MoreThis was sent to me by a friend and I thought her words were perfect. As I read today’s paper about all of the local events taking place to honor our war veterans, I found something lacking. There was not one event that...
Read MoreWell, here it is, yet another price of war. Repeated deployments and an incompetent system to deal with the mental health toll on our GI’s is taking a staggering toll. Some advocates say the early presence of veterans from...
Read MoreA while back I wrote about a book, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character...
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