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	<description>What Veterans of Island County Read</description>
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		<title>Seeking better mental health for soldiers</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/07/17/seeking-better-mental-health-for-soldiers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith</dc:creator>
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Sgt. Coleman S. Bean enlisted in the U.S. Army Sept. 5, 2001, and trained at Ft. Benning, Ga. He graduated from the Army Airborne Program in 2002, was assigned to the 173rd Airborne and stationed in Vicenza, Italy. As part of a NATO force, he served in Kosovo and trained in Germany.
In 2003, the 173rd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Veterans Museum showcases soldiers&#8217; portraits in The Rise of the Fallen</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/07/17/wisconsin-veterans-museum-showcases-soldiers-portraits-in-the-rise-of-the-fallen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seen in The Daily Page, Saturday July 17th, 2010, Madison, Wisconsin,
Eric Dunford said on Wednesday 07/07/2010 10:42 am
A new exhibit commemorating soldiers who have died in the Afghan and Iraq wars opened Tuesday evening at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.
Aptly named The Rise of the Fallen, the exhibit contains 101 surreal, almost ghost-like portraits of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>V.A. Is Easing Rules to Cover Stress Disorder</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/07/07/v-a-is-easing-rules-to-cover-stress-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/07/07/v-a-is-easing-rules-to-cover-stress-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JAMES DAO
Published: NY Times: July 7, 2010
The government is preparing to issue new rules that will make it substantially easier for veterans who have been found to have post-traumatic stress disorder to receive disability benefits, a change that could affect hundreds of thousands of veterans from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
The regulations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local veteran&#8217;s suicide reflects troubling trend</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/07/05/local-veterans-suicide-reflects-troubling-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/07/05/local-veterans-suicide-reflects-troubling-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VRC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orrin Gorman McClellan is among the war casualties that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has just begun to track — young men and women who served in the post-9/11 military, and killed themselves after struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder and other war wounds.]]></description>
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		<title>1 in 10 Iraq Soldiers May Be Mentally Ill</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/06/11/1-in-10-iraq-soldiers-may-be-mentally-ill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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By KIM CAROLLO
ABCNews Medical Unit

6/11/10, 4:28 PM EDT






Combat duty leads about 1 in 10 soldiers to have mental health problems.

Even though he&#8217;s retired from active military duty, CSM Samuel Rhodes still suffers from deep emotional wounds.
&#8220;I had to take this afternoon off from work today because of anxiety,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And sometimes, if I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter Reed Report Confirms Validity of Fast-Acting, Non-Drug PTSD Treatment</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/26/walter-reed-report-confirms-validity-of-fast-acting-non-drug-ptsd-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Released: 4/26/2010 5:00 PM EDT
Embargo expired: 4/30/2010 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Advanced Pain Centers 
Newswise — Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, has published case reports detailing the successful treatment of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder with a stellate ganglion block.
SGB is a 10-minute procedure during which local anesthesia is injected next to the stellate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/25/preliminary-assessment-of-readjustment-needs-of-veterans-service-members-and-their-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report


Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families

Released: March 31, 2010 
Consensus Report  :   Institute of Medicine Report


Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Most return successfully to their normal lives, but many have encountered serious challenges readjusting after their return home. These wars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans film fellow vets coming home&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/25/veterans-film-fellow-vets-coming-home/</link>
		<comments>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/25/veterans-film-fellow-vets-coming-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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War Veterans: Clint Van Winkle (l.) watches as cameraman Jon Dunham films David Paxson being tattooed at a parlor near Philadelphia with a ‘battlefield cross’ in honor of a friend after coming home. 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Veterans film fellow vets coming home
Back from Iraq or Afghanistan, five veterans pick up cameras to show the challenges of coming home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Our Backs on Heroes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/17/turning-our-backs-on-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/17/turning-our-backs-on-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article by Bob Herbert in the NY Times, a good reminder to all of us about the price being paid by many veterans &#8211; and it doesn&#8217;t even mention that their families are equally affected.  Nor does it mention that the current estimate is that about 35% of vets are returning from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soldier Who Refused Afghan Tour Released</title>
		<link>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/14/soldier-who-refused-afghan-tour-released/</link>
		<comments>http://vetsresourcecenter.org/news/index.php/2010/04/14/soldier-who-refused-afghan-tour-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Source:  The Olympian ( see below link )
 
&#8220;Pvt. Travis Bishop left his jail cell at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last week with no job, a criminal conviction and just one regret.&#8221;
“I wish I had known about applying for a conscientious objector status a lot sooner,” said Bishop, a 26-year-old Louisville, Ky., native.  The former sergeant made [...]]]></description>
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