I couldn't resist passing on one more reason wars should be avoided. My researcher of all things troops and bugs (May Lattanzio) sent this to me. Can you believe. Sorry for the dog, glad it wasn't the Brit.
By the way, this insect is six inches long and hisses!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/28/uk.dangerous.spider/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson wrote the foreword for Eric Dinyer's book of patriotic quotations, Support Our Troops, published by Andrews McMeel. Part of the proceeds for the book benefit Fisher House. Her chapbook of poetry won the Military Writers Society of America's award of excellence.
Showing posts with label afghan war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label afghan war. Show all posts
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Horrifying Figures on the Cost of War:Mental Disease and Suicide
According to the May 5, 2008, issue of Time Magazine, the military established a suicide hotline for vets in August. An amazing 37,000 calls have been received so far.
Figures that support the need for this kind of service are also included in that issue of Time. An independent study (Rand) shows that "as many as 300,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffer from symptoms of depression por post-tramatic stress disorder." That about 20%! And an additional 320,000 soldiers are are on the rolls as having experienced traumatic brain injury.
In former posts I've talked about the post active duty care our soldiers are getting. The picture does not look good.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson wrote the foreword for Eric Dinyer's book of patriotic quotations, Support Our Troops, published by Andrews McMeel. Part of the proceeds for the book benefit Fisher House. Her chapbook of poetry won the Military Writers Society of America's award of excellence.
Figures that support the need for this kind of service are also included in that issue of Time. An independent study (Rand) shows that "as many as 300,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffer from symptoms of depression por post-tramatic stress disorder." That about 20%! And an additional 320,000 soldiers are are on the rolls as having experienced traumatic brain injury.
In former posts I've talked about the post active duty care our soldiers are getting. The picture does not look good.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson wrote the foreword for Eric Dinyer's book of patriotic quotations, Support Our Troops, published by Andrews McMeel. Part of the proceeds for the book benefit Fisher House. Her chapbook of poetry won the Military Writers Society of America's award of excellence.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
A Woman for Tolerance
I would rather show this as a video on this blog but I can't figure out how to collect the HTML code. Therefore, please click. One of my friends says the speaker is, "one impressive woman. Here is a powerful and amazing statement on Al Jereeza television. The woman is Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychologist from Los Angeles. I would suggest watching it ASAP because I don't know how long the link will be active. This film clip should be shown around the world repeatedly!"
She is speaking for tolerance. Much of what she says is not specifically Muslim-Christian related. It is something for all to think about. The clashes between religions in general and religions against what she calls "secular human beings." Such passion. It was apparently aired in Dubai, one of the most cosmopolitan of Arab countries.
Think of how peaceful the world would be if everyone followed her philosophy.
Click here:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=nul
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson wrote the foreword for Eric Dinyer's book of patriotic quotations, Support Our Troops, published by Andrews McMeel. Part of the proceeds for the book benefit Fisher House. Her chapbook of poetry won the Military Writers Society of America's award of excellence.
She is speaking for tolerance. Much of what she says is not specifically Muslim-Christian related. It is something for all to think about. The clashes between religions in general and religions against what she calls "secular human beings." Such passion. It was apparently aired in Dubai, one of the most cosmopolitan of Arab countries.
Think of how peaceful the world would be if everyone followed her philosophy.
Click here:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=nul
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson wrote the foreword for Eric Dinyer's book of patriotic quotations, Support Our Troops, published by Andrews McMeel. Part of the proceeds for the book benefit Fisher House. Her chapbook of poetry won the Military Writers Society of America's award of excellence.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Charlie Wilson's War: A Movie By and About Heroes
Charlie Wilson's War is a movie that took many heroes to make. George Crile, the amazing journalist/war reporter who wrote the book, Aaron Sorkin who has a knack for bringing unpleasant truths to the general public, Mike Nichols who does the same and manages to apply his incredible humor to them to make them palatable. Then there is Charlie Wilson himself, his helpmate Gust Avrakotos, his inspiration, Joanne Herring, Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts who use their celebrity to encourage large numbers to consider what their government has been up to and what it may be up to.
I just completed a review for the Glendale News-Press. It is schedule to run Thursday, Dec. 28, for those who would like to see the entire thing. Here is a quotation from it:
"When Joanne questions him about the covert war they have just engineered, Charlie says, "There has never been anything like it . . . ." And there may not be. Charlie's War has its proud moments, its amazing moments, and many, many funny ones. But then there's that other sad thing about this movie, besides the fact that Crile never got to see his story on the screen. It's that that the war portrayed is really only unusual in its aspect of David-with-money against an unsuspecting Goliath. Since WWII there have been more than 300 so-called conflicts (as counted by the Red Cross in attendance) similar to the Afghan-Soviet war. Refugees. Suffering of children. Horrors unmentionable on the parts of the military and their governments. Unlike WWII -- a war we left with dignity -- we left this Afghan war and many other conflicts callously with little or no care for the war-stricken. We left them mo peace. Much poverty. We left them seeds for radicalism."
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson occasionally reviews movies for the Glendale News-Press, an LA Times affiliate. She wrote the foreword for Eric Dinyer's book of patriotic quotations, Support Our Troops, published by Andrews McMeel. Part of the proceeds for the book benefit Fisher House. Her chapbook of poetry won the Military Writers Society of America's award of excellence.
I just completed a review for the Glendale News-Press. It is schedule to run Thursday, Dec. 28, for those who would like to see the entire thing. Here is a quotation from it:
"When Joanne questions him about the covert war they have just engineered, Charlie says, "There has never been anything like it . . . ." And there may not be. Charlie's War has its proud moments, its amazing moments, and many, many funny ones. But then there's that other sad thing about this movie, besides the fact that Crile never got to see his story on the screen. It's that that the war portrayed is really only unusual in its aspect of David-with-money against an unsuspecting Goliath. Since WWII there have been more than 300 so-called conflicts (as counted by the Red Cross in attendance) similar to the Afghan-Soviet war. Refugees. Suffering of children. Horrors unmentionable on the parts of the military and their governments. Unlike WWII -- a war we left with dignity -- we left this Afghan war and many other conflicts callously with little or no care for the war-stricken. We left them mo peace. Much poverty. We left them seeds for radicalism."
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson occasionally reviews movies for the Glendale News-Press, an LA Times affiliate. She wrote the foreword for Eric Dinyer's book of patriotic quotations, Support Our Troops, published by Andrews McMeel. Part of the proceeds for the book benefit Fisher House. Her chapbook of poetry won the Military Writers Society of America's award of excellence.
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