It is 2023—the holiday season. This exercise of looking in the mirror, of learning who I am and why, has been hard. But it has been healing.
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Embracing a Former Enemy at Pearl Harbor, It Was Official. The War Was Over.
This week marks 82 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor and 32 years since I witnessed the birth of a friendship between two men who’d once been at war.
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Short Changed: Military Comes with Unique Risks for Domestic Violence, Can Silence Survivors
A War Horse review of military women’s noncombat deaths since 9/11 found domestic violence often ended in death.
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He Spent Years Learning Other People’s Secret Pains. I Spent Years Hiding Mine.
E.V.’s husband spent years serving military sexual trauma survivors, unaware that she, too, was one.
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Short Changed: How The Army Failed Spc. Adrienne Barillas
Adrienne Barillas was found naked outside of an Army barracks. The Army ruled her death a suicide. Soldiers and family members say there’s more to the story.
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The Shoulders I Stood on Were Gone. How Little I Knew of the Journey Before Me.
Air Force Maj. Troy Gilbert was a hero who died when his F-16 crashed protecting U.S. troops in Iraq. But to the 9-year-old son he left behind, he was Dad.
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Veterans Who Are Food Insecure Are Less Likely to Seek Help Than Civilians
More than a million veterans are food insecure. Most at risk are younger vets with families, women, and those with mental health concerns or lower incomes.
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Troops Weigh Leaving Service Over Lack of Care for Kids With Autism Under Tricare
Health care is a military recruitment selling point, but some parents are leaving service to ensure their kids get care they need that Tricare can withhold.
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We Forever Carry With Us the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Our Service and What We Learned From It
After leaving the U.S. Marine Corps, veteran Sean Filip felt caught in a quantum superposition—feeling as if he occupied two places at once.
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I’m Finally Here at This Place Where I May or May Not Belong. I’m Ready to Find Out.
Avoidance feels freeing. It takes away the pressure of the stories that weigh so heavily on me. I came here to learn how to be a better writer.
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Expectant Service Members Lack Support. Doulas Could Help, Advocates Say.
Members of the military who are pregnant lack options when it comes to giving birth. That might be changing, but challenges persist.
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I Watched His Blood Wash Out of the OH-58D. It Was a Hell of a Way to Grow Up.
War brings about all sorts of emotions. The darkest ones get never-ending attention. Yet this was the happiest day of my life.
