When we think about vets, and homeless vets, we almost always visualize a man.  We almost always see a man.  A low estimate of homeless vets is 131,000.  Perhaps 3%  … [Keep reading >>]

The good-time Charlies who assured us that invasion and conquest could be done on the cheap weren’t interested in the real costs of their schemes, costs in dollars we now … [Keep reading >>]

Article in SF Chron on Friday, Dec 5

Traumatic brain injuries, one of the signature injuries of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, can be linked to such long-term problems as … [Keep reading >>]

Bob Herbert called attention the other day to the difficulties of returning veterans.

Returning to civilian life from combat is almost always a hard road to run. Studies have shown that … [Keep reading >>]

Swords to Ploughshares is an incredible organization. If helping homeless and PTSD blasted vets is where your heart lies, you can’t do better than work through them. They are … [Keep reading >>]

“About one out of seven female veterans of Afghanistan or Iraq who visit a Veterans Affairs center for medical care report being a victim of sexual assault or harassment during … [Keep reading >>]

More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.

Hot Line … [Keep reading >>]

Do you remember this soldier?

He’s gone.

Joseph Patrick Dwyer died last week at a hospital in Pinehurst, according to the Boles Funeral Home. He was 31. The photograph, taken in … [Keep reading >>]

Christy Hardin Smith at FireDogLake picks up the MST story. That’s Military Sexual Trauma. That’s rape. By. Your. Buddy. Or superior. Not by strangers. … [Keep reading >>]

“Until the day he died, Sgt. Brian Rand believed he was being haunted by the ghost of the Iraqi man he killed.

The ghost choked Rand while he slept in his … [Keep reading >>]

A couple of us took the opportunity last night to hear three panelists, sponsored by AHCJ [Association of Health Care Journalists,] talk to independent health care reporters about the … [Keep reading >>]

Staff Sgt. Travis Twiggs, 36, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1993 and held the combat action ribbon — and met President Bush a few weeks ago — wrote … [Keep reading >>]