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“Goodbye, My Friend” and “In Memoriam: Porthos, 1985-2013” (Encore)
On the evening of Monday, March 25, 2013, I was leaving a dinner meeting w aith colleagues, a group with whom I had been meeting for just under twenty years, once a month during the school year, to...
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To Remember, Not Relive (Encore)
As I continue to remember with you Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, the three Army Musketeers, now three years later, I find that a good way to distance myself from my emotional responses is to critique my...
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Taking Him on Home (Encore)
Thank you for continuing to join me in my remembering. It was a new year, 2013. So much ended up changing over the coming months. But on January 10, 2013, there were new possibilities. There still...
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Merry Christmas, Reality Notwithstanding (Encore)
Today, I continue to ask you to join me as I remember Three Musketeers: one whom I never met, one whom I’ll not meet again, one who still lives his life in the best memories of both. Anniversaries...
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No Trouble at All (Encore)
Good to be back with you all. A date is approaching, next month actually. Seasons move forward through the years, yet certain ones halt us, if only temporarily, reminding us again of what once was,...
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The Slide Show (Encore)
From January 2012 through August 2013, I blogged regularly about my experiences working with Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) combat vets at the Richard L....
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Heroism and a Different Veteran
Doing What It Takes, In a Moment, In a Life Today, I move away from combat veterans, but only in a literal sense. For in a more figurative sense, if we speak of those who are willing to serve through...
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The Zombies’ Discharge Papers
Vets. Zombies. Seriously Today it’s vets and zombies. I’m serious. Vets. Zombies. Vets and Zombies. It’s a new world, folks. A new world. For a conventional take, try Army Times´ “Trailer for...
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Desert Sands at 25 Years
Wars, Blogs, Lives Twenty-five years ago, on January 16, 1991 (US time), Operation Desert Storm began, with coalition forces initiating military activities that would eventually lead to the expulsion...
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One Brave Voice
Not Politics, But Truth In the January 23, 2016 New York Times, an op-ed appeared entitled “Sarah Palin, This Is What PTSD Is Really Like.” While I do my best to avoid the political in this blog, the...
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Bird’s-Eye Extreme
Look, Ma, I’ m Flying! I could say that today’s piece is about a project. It is. It’s also about a documentary. That too. In some ways, it’s about a movement, of sorts. All well and good. But what...
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Guilt, Smiles, and In-Between
Living the Past’s Futures Today is about a video clip. I first saw it courtesy of the Task & Purpose website, in an article entitled “Vargas and Best of Article 15 Talk Survivor’s Guilt, Loss.” It...
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A Labyrinth for Healing
Winding in the Right Direction Today I want to tell you about a place. For those of you who might someday find yourselves in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area, head about thirty minutes east of town,...
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Following the Blasts
New Directions, New Possibilities Today we remember that the trauma after War is in no way easy to define and, even more, to locate. Neurons in the brain just don’t go around playing games of...
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Sitting With War
As Long As It Takes Today I want to feature an organization. Organizations can, of course, become bureaucratic, impersonal, inefficient: the last to be able to do what needs to be done. Yet they can...
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Writing War
From Up Close, From Afar Today, some thoughtful reflections from a combat veteran, now author, who asks himself: why do I write about war? In doing so, he challenges all of us to think about not only...
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The Maharishi’s Back
With Science to Boot Today probably should go under the title of “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” So, you might ask, combat trauma/PTSD and TM? That is, transcendental...
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Greatness for All
Generations That Keep Going Today is a day for reflection: what does “greatness” mean? United States journalist Tom Brokaw, former anchor for the NBC Evening News, called those of the World War II era...
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It’s Supermom, Mate!
Fasten Your Seat Belt Today I want to travel halfway around the world from my home in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, to the southeastern coast of Australia and the state of New South Wales. From just...
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Shukraan for Your Service
Never Forgetting the Words Today I want to focus on an organization. For some reasons languages come easily to me. While I’ve been too lazy to achieve the fluency I should attain, I do have a working...
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