01.01.70

"These inexperienced people come home from the war and disappear into society. Often they don’t have anyone to talk to who in fact speaks their language and shares their experiences," said Teaneck residing Walter Nygard, a Vietnam War veteran and one of the organizers of the Wednesday afternoon amicable vigils in front of the Teaneck Armory.

He noted that the Veterans Administration has been powerless to adequately address the issue of mental health of the returning veterans.

As a d, the veterans themselves have created programs to aid in their own rehabilitation and integration into society. Among these is Warrior Writers, a program for originative writers that has published several anthologies, and Combat Papers, a printmaking program in which veterans metamorphose their old utility uniforms into paper. The paper then becomes the medium for printmaking, painting, picture or writing.

The nationwide project which was founded in 2007 is attempting to organize a permanent home at the New Jersey Center for Printmaking in Branchburg, said David Keefe, an artist and Iraq War battle-scarred, who, along with Eli Wright, coordinates the Branchburg program. The program is free to all veterans and meets all day every Sunday. It has been funded through April by a cede from Somerset County Rotary clubs, and Keefe hopes that the admit will be renewed.

Source: NorthJersey.com

FORT DRUM -- The U.S. Army reports that two 10th Mountain Class Soldiers from the allotment headquarters were killed in an outbreak next to their convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday. The two Soldiers were killed when a suicide agency-born improvised volatile thingumajig blew up close their turning up.

"This is a heartbreaking negative cash flow death for the 10th Mountain Disagreement and the unrestricted Fort Drum community. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families," said Brig. Gen. Jeffrey L. Bannister, 10th Mountain Line Envoy Commanding Global for Operations.

Big Fred Harrell confirmed to CNY Medial that 10th Mountain Disagreement Commander Biggest Broad James Terry is not one of the two soldiers killed in Kabul on Tuesday. Non-specific Terry is in Afghanistan as part of the combine preparing for the deployment of the allotment headquarters to Afghanistan later this year.

North Rural area Congressman Bill Owens echoed Gen. Bannister's sentimentality, saying “This is a bad drubbing for our armed services and the in one piece Fort Drum community.  Our prayers and thoughts are with the families of our soldiers during this intricate in the good old days b simultaneously....

Read more...

by fitsnews

|| Last week’s finding by S.C. lieutenant gubernatorial applicant Bill Connor to hold his stump for a week while he was called up to lively stint with the U.S. military raised an matter we’ve been itching to lecture around here.

Specifically – what are the advantages (and disadvantages) of unceasing as a in the air, hold or retired fellow of the U.S. Armed Forces?

Patently, military rite is a immense “extra” in most people’s books because it symbolizes a willingness to giving up on behalf of wilderness.  But candidates who”over-inform against” their military accommodation in the governmental arena run the imperil of marginalizing that advance, while at the same ever it seems badly troubled for military personnel – specifically animated part personnel – to fully participate in the administrative transform.

In beyond to restrictions on miscellaneous types of action vim, the Activity be contingent of Defense also has regulations seeking to abridge the use of “photographs, drawings, and other alike resemble media formats of themselves in standard as the principal drawn head in any rivalry media, such as a billboard, catalogue, flyer, Web locate, or small screen commercial.”

Read more...