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    WITH PTSD THAT COMMIT CRIMES The ongoing war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan will always be a heavily debated topic from its beginning on October 7‚ 2001 with the attack on America soil on 9/11. But an ongoing war that is often ignored is the servicemen and women of those who return home from combat and suffer from psychological problems. As a Veteran of the U.S. Army myself that suffers from PTSD‚ I am disturb by the staggering reports of the number of combat veterans returning

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    was a stressful time‚ I appreciated that the community reached out to my family by the end of the year my family was reunited. For the last two years‚ I’ve worked at Subway on Sunset. Over the years‚ I’ve had the opportunity to meet Wookie‚ a homeless veteran‚ who is comfortable telling his experiences in the military. After returning from the war he hasn’t been comfortable living within walls. While on my shift‚ if I have the opportunity I try to give Wookie my free sandwich for the day in hopes

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    aboard a lifeboat where he was stranded for 227 days‚ with a wounded zebra‚ and orangutan‚ a hyena‚ and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. But the question is‚ did Pi Patel imagine the whole ordeal? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD) can cause people to have a loss of time‚ place‚ or person orientation‚ or even an increased or decreased awareness of surroundings1. Did he imagine

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    PTSD – ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE. K. Martins International Baccalaureate Program Class 47 ELA 436-47 Ms.P.Dann Howard S Billings Regional High School October 11th‚ 2012 “Not all scars show not all wounds heal‚ sometimes you can ’t always see the pain someone feels” (Lisa French; Scars‚ secrets someone else knows). More often than none‚ we take for granted how healthy and strong we are. But everyone has their limits. Whether or not we want to admit it

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    By: Krysten G. Navy Veteran Griffin Kirsch Did you know the Navy is the only branch where you get to pick your job and what you want to do for that branch? Also there are sometimes in the Navy where it takes about 4 months or even more to get to where they needed to be in order to fight. I did not know a lot of those facts until I decided to interview my cousin‚ Griffin. He has recently just stopped serving in the military because he never gets to see his family

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    In the early stages of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial people used verbal and racist attacks directed towards Maya Lin because of the fact that she was an Asian American building a memorial in remembrance of a war that took place in Asia. Ross Perot had pledged 160‚000 dollars to help run the competition withdrew his support and called it a “trench”. Numerous veteran groups also showed their disapproval some said it lacked heroic or patriotic symbols. Other veteran groups said that it should rise above

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    Military Veteran’s Foundation was developed for employees to participate in a single campaign in order for future success of the Military Veterans Foundation. Fundraising efforts are normally conducted in for those employees that wish to donate to the foundation. The San Antonio Military Veteran’s Foundation’s goal is to raise funds to benefit the active military‚ veterans and their families that have served overseas in Vietnam‚ WWII‚ Desert Storm‚ Operation Iraqi Freedom/ Operation Enduring Freedom and

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     I would like to discuss why we should help our unemployed  veterans.       Unemployment happens to everyone‚ it occurs when someone is out of work and cannot find a  job.  More than 197 million people globally were out of work in 2012.  Out of all those that are  employed‚ 10 percent of them were veterans.  Veterans come back from war‚ or serving time in  the military and it is hard for them to find a job because there are certain skills that veterans are

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    Veterans Day occurs on November 11 every year in the United States In 1954‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.In 1968‚ the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed by Congress‚ which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. The law went into effect in 1971‚ but in 1975 President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11‚ due to the important historical significance of the date.Great Britain‚ France

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    me‚ (Tanabe). Veterans people who risk their lives for people they don’t even now. Usually when we see a veteran we thank them for their service. These Americans Veterans risk their lives and it’s a natural instinct to say thank you‚ but to some it’s no problems‚ and when someone says thank you to a vet they are reminding them of the good and bad times when they served. Walking up to a veteran and saying thankyou is a natural instinct‚ but is it no problem to the veterans you say it to

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