Category Archives: Awareness

Veteran Drivers License – A Way to Diffuse?

External Link: Driver’s License Honoring Vets Could Diffuse Tense Situations. A handful of vets have gotten into confrontations with police in recent years. In many cases, post-traumatic stress disorder or other emotional battle scars played a role on those incidents. … Continue reading

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Bloop (pause) Boom!!

I figured it was past time to throw up a new post and announce that a lot of progress on the blog is being made, an update if you will. I had hoped to have everything in order by the … Continue reading

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Fear…

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National PTSD Awareness Day and an Infographic…

Today is National PTSD Awareness Day – established by the U.S. Senate last year to raise public awareness on post traumatic stress.  Over the past few days I’ve been working pretty hard on this blog to make it a lot … Continue reading

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The War Inside My Head (Poem)…

Just something I wrote awhile back. The War Inside My Head War is hell, and once you deploy, there can be for many no coming back… Your life, the soul, and the battle within the mind – changes forevermore. It’s … Continue reading

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