Veterans find release in deer hunt
CHARLESTOWN — Joshua Chiarini spent a few cold hours in the Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday morning healing from his experiences fighting in Iraq.Chiarini had been in his third tour of...
View ArticleBar X Project helps vets heal in pristine Montana landscape
PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service) — The driver should have known better. He was getting too close. The U.S. Marines in Iraq’s Anbar province watched warily as the vehicle crept up on their convoy....
View ArticleCOMING HOME: Wounded vets speak out
On the night of Oct. 8, 2004, U.S. Army Sgt. Ramon Guitard, a Brooklyn native raised in Georgetown County and serving his second tour in Iraq, was a 21-year-old generator mechanic working as a guard in...
View Article‘We’ve sacrificed too much already’
On the night of Oct. 8, 2004, U.S. Army Sgt. Ramon Guitard, a Brooklyn native raised in Georgetown County and serving his second tour in Iraq, was a 21-year-old generator mechanic working as a guard in...
View ArticleThe Book America Needs to Read Right Now
After years of combat and thousands of pages of confusion, finally there is a book that explains the inner workings—and failings—of the American disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan. Former State...
View ArticleIslamic State suicide bombers drive right into Iraqi army base
Military convoy: Iraqi security force vehicles are seen on a road during clashes with Islamic State militants in Iraq. Photo: Reuters Islamic State at a glance: who they are, where they came from and...
View ArticleA Navy Sailor's Desperate Last Act After Drug Addictions, Depression
Want More? Download Our New Weekly Magazine: Huffington. On the early evening of March 15, 2011, in the bedroom of a two-story red brick townhouse in Virginia Beach, Va., Navy Petty Officer Joshua...
View ArticleChattanooga shattered: A single gunshot, silence, and terror
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A single "pop" cut through the quiet morning. Those who heard it had a moment to ponder the noise. On this ordinary Thursday, some thought a car had backfired, or maybe a tire had...
View ArticleIslamic State attack on Iraqi base leaves hundreds missing, shows army...
Military vehicles of Iraqi security forces are seen on a road during clashes with Islamic State militants in Iraq. Photo: Reuters Islamic State at a glance: who they are, where they came from and what...
View ArticleIslamic State: when even the 'saviours' are suicide bombers
Military vehicles of Iraqi security forces are seen on a road during clashes with Islamic State militants in Iraq. Photo: Reuters Islamic State at a glance: who they are, where they came from and what...
View ArticleLetter to a sleeping SC son
AIKEN — At the age of 25, Cpl. Matthew Dillon, USMC, was killed in action in Iraq. In the previous year, he had graduated from Marine combat training and military police school with honors as a platoon...
View ArticleGroup gives wounded veterans a chance to hunt and fish
LAKE NEBAGAMON, Minn. (Tribune News Service) — Tony Simone grew up hunting white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania, but that was a long time ago. Before he started flying for the Air Force. Before the day...
View ArticleCalming horses provide comfort for Ohio veterans
UNIONTOWN, Ohio -- For an entire year, Michael Kuhn visited the horses. Always alone, on Sundays. Kuhn, an 82nd Airborne Iraq veteran, started out slowly, by feeding the horses, by being close to them....
View Article7 Marines killed in helicopter crash are identified
Marine Corps officials on Friday released the names of the seven Marines killed in Tuesday’s helicopter crash. The four Louisiana Army National Guard members have not yet been identified by officials....
View ArticleSeven Marines killed in helicopter crash are identified
Marine Corps officials on Friday released the names of the seven Marines killed in Tuesday’s helicopter crash. The four Louisiana Army National Guard members have not been named. The families and...
View ArticleIn His Son's Steps
Excerpted from For Love of Country by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Copyright � 2014 by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House...
View ArticleCar bombs kill 20 in Baghdad, Ramadi: police, medical sources
BAGHDAD - Car bombs killed 20 people, including five soldiers, in the Iraqi capital and the city of Ramadi to the west on Saturday, police and medical sources said, in attacks that resembled operations...
View ArticleWounded vets speak out
On the night of Oct. 8, 2004, U.S. Army Sgt. Ramon Guitard, a Brooklyn native raised in Georgetown County and serving his second tour in Iraq, was a 21-year-old generator mechanic working as a guard in...
View ArticleMichigan veteran inspires others 10 years after bomb attack
BANGOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) Douglas Szczepanski saw the suicide bomber's face in the moments before his vehicle, loaded with explosives, blew up on a Baghdad highway. The blast shattered the Army...
View ArticleFinding peace on the riding trail
MANCHESTER, N.H. (Tribune News Service) -- 'I'm in heaven," Lindsey Bernard grinned from atop a gentle giant of a Clydesdale named Gruffy, her face alight. The 31-year-old Marine Corps veteran from...
View ArticleIn their own words: Valley veterans remember their military service
Today, Americans honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Memorial Day began in 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War. What was then called Decoration Day served as a...
View ArticleIn their own words: Valley veterans remember their service
Today, Americans honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Memorial Day began in 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War. What was then called Decoration Day served as a...
View ArticleGroup offers duck hunts to wounded vets
CORVALLIS, Mont. (AP) — The hunt began with a prayer. In the dark just before dawn— as cold rain mixed with big wet flakes of snow falling from the sky — the two camouflage-clad men bowed their heads...
View Article>Group offers duck hunts to wounded vets
CORVALLIS, Mont. (AP) — The hunt began with a prayer. In the dark just before dawn— as cold rain mixed with big wet flakes of snow falling from the sky — the two camouflage-clad men bowed their heads...
View ArticleInside Iraqi air base as Islamic State closes in
Ain al-Asad air base, the largest in Iraq's western province of Anbar, has been encircled by militants from Islamic State (IS). The BBC's Quentin Sommerville, the first Western journalist to make it to...
View ArticleVeterans frustrated by presidential debate on Iraq war
Veterans of the Iraq War are watching in frustration as Republican presidential contenders distance themselves from the decision their party enthusiastically supported to invade that country. Some...
View ArticleVeterans feel sting of Ramadi and Fallujah losses
For David Bellavia, seeing the images of al-Qaeda flags flying over buildings in Fallujah and Ramadi in recent days has been devastating. "That ground, to me it's hallowed," said Bellavia, who earned a...
View ArticleCombat vets battle an enemy within: Addiction
PHILADELPHIA -- The first time Pearson Crosby went to the methadone clinic at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center in early 2013, he asked his father to go with him. But couldn't tell him why. Crosby,...
View Article>Military deaths with Nebraska connections
As of Thursday, July 24, 2014, 72 U.S. service members with Nebraska connections have died in Afghanistan or Iraq since the beginning of military operations following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
View ArticleCombat veterans battle an enemy within: Addiction
The first time Pearson Crosby went to the methadone clinic at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center in early 2013, he asked his father to go with him. But couldn't tell him why. Crosby, who played varsity...
View ArticleMarines, family members honor 10th anniversary of Iraq war battle
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — To the outside world, the names mean nothing. But to Marines who fought in Ramadi, Iraq, and to the families of the fallen, the names will forever be redolent of service and...
View Article'Horse therapy' at Texas ranch helps wounded vets
BEASLEY, Texas — Cpl. Steven Schulz looked as proud as any Marine could be sitting astride a horse named Xena at a ranch west of Rosenberg, Texas. "I'll do a trot for awhile, I guess," Schulz said as...
View ArticleIraq veterans 'seeing everything they fought for go out the window'
On the night of Oct. 8, 2004, U.S. Army Sgt. Ramon Guitard, a Brooklyn native serving his second tour in Iraq, was a 21-year-old generator mechanic working as a guard in a supply convoy. En route from...
View ArticleReflecting on Ramadi a decade after an encounter with an IED
(CNN)Hearing the news about Ramadi last week made me light-headed. Made the usual ringing in my ears more pronounced. It was Christmas Eve 2004 and we were almost back. The traffic circle outside of...
View ArticleMilitary tattoos evolve into tributes for veterans
CHERRY HILL, N.J. Andrew Einstein did what a lot of leathernecks do immediately after surviving Marine boot camp. He got a tattoo. It would not be the only one. After tours of duty in Iraq and...
View ArticleMilitary deaths with Nebraska connections
As of Thursday, July 24, 2014, 72 U.S. service members with Nebraska connections have died in Afghanistan or Iraq since the beginning of military operations following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
View ArticleHealing Comrades
The driver should have known better. He was getting too close. The U.S. Marines in Iraq's Anbar province watched warily as the vehicle crept up on their convoy. They'd seen comrades killed by suicide...
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