Dying to Preserve the Lies

Orders to deploy to Afghanistan - third combat deployment

Published on 2009-09-02 15:44:00

Son-in-law already has his orders for deployment to Afghanistan. He is home with his family for now - his year 'dwell time' at home. We work to try to forget it is only a year that will pass quickly and another deployment looms ahead. My daughter works (and I do mean Works) at trying to get the most out of their time home, arranging for the family to get everything they can out of each moment; something to be stored up against the times he is away. A third deployment after two extended, stop

Military Families Respond to Survey – Feel Disconnected

Published on 2009-05-06 10:56:00

Military families feel disconnected from the larger community, according to a poll commissioned by a military family advocacy group. According to the results of the poll, 94 percent feel that way. Blue Star Families released the results of the 3,000-person survey at a roundtable on Capitol Hill led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The roundtable -- meant as one way to bridge the gap -- included Blue Star Families, the National Military Families Association, Tina Tchen of the White House Council o

Veterans expressions of pain are not necessarily a political expression of anti-war, pro-war or neutral…

Published on 2009-04-29 09:35:00

Thoughts expressed by this Marine Captain on the matter of veterans healing from their war experiences articulates much better than I some of the thoughts I have tried to express… I have taken exception to the activism among some of the anti-war groups that are too quick to usurp the veterans' expression of pain as an extension and endorsement of the group's own dissent message. citing excerpt from the article; The crucial mistake being made, I think, by so many in the pro-war, antiwa