Aaron Glantz, New America Media. November 6, 2009. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the people who died will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. August 12, 2009. How the justice system has been manipulated to put astonishing numbers of vets with PTSD and other psychiatric injuries behind bars.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. August 5, 2009. Veterans are more likely to get longer sentences than non-veterans for the same crime. How can we treat returning soldiers so badly?
Diablo Cody, SMITH Magazine. May 14, 2009. A new book, "I Love a Man in Uniform," looks at the imperfect individuals behind the red, white, and blue facade.
Aaron Glantz, IPS News. May 12, 2009. 'The first impulse is to be angry ... but then you can't help but ask: 'What caused this person to be this upset, this angry?'
Susannah Breslin, The Daily Beast. April 25, 2009. When Lily Burana married an Army officer, she left behind her life in strip clubs and became a cake-baking military wife. Then came the bombshells.
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. April 6, 2009. No society that sends its men abroad for war can expect them to come home and be at peace, as returning Iraqi vets are proving in alarming numbers.
Simon Maxwell Apter, The Nation. January 28, 2009. The "band of brothers" within the armed forces is taking a decidedly unbrotherly view of the debate over the Purple Heart.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. September 11, 2008. Vets are killing themselves in growing numbers, but the government sees suicides as a way to lower the official average processing time of claims.
Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. July 16, 2008. When veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bring their troubles home, police and judges often are the first to deal with them.
Amy Turner, The Times of London UK. June 27, 2008. At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, ecstasy may be key to taming their demons.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. May 20, 2008. This appalling denial of care to wounded service men and women is part of a larger health system that's failing all of us.
Mike Connery, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2008. The VA is ordering its staff not to diagnose veterans with PTSD, short-changing our soldiers and making worse an already under-treated condition.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. April 29, 2008. An activist travels to the DoD's annual suicide prevention conference, only to find the military brass living in a parallel universe.
Stacy Bannerman, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 25, 2008. Depression and suicidal thoughts aren't limited to vets with PTSD; family members may experience it as well.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. March 14, 2008. Army studies say one in three soldiers will return from Iraq with significant mental health problems, but the system isn't there to help them.
