Monthly Archives: September 2009

September 19, 2009

PTSD²: Learning to Live Together When Both of You Have PTSD

The Abbess and Me The Abbess and I have been married 26 years. We have dealt with PTSD for all of that time. Now we did not always know this was the case, not until she received the diagnosis back … Continue reading →

The Art and Science of Staying Awake and Going to Sleep When You Have PTSD

“The blood level in my caffeine is getting too high” Woody Paige on ESPN’s Around the Horn Today: 3 24 Ounce Cups of Southern Pecan Coffee with French Vanilla Creamer and Splenda Which came first the chicken or the Egg … Continue reading →

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September 17, 2009

Mortain to Market-Garden: A Study in How Armies Improvise in Rapidly Changing Situations

NOTE: I decided to post an old article from my file which has not been posted here before as I was too emotionally spent to work on anything requiring emotional input. This is a look at the campaign in Western … Continue reading →

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September 16, 2009

Survival on the Home Front: Dealing with Other People’s Reactions to My PTSD

Being in Iraq was in Many Ways Less Frightening than Being in the USA I find it interesting and sometimes painful to see how institutions and some people within the institution will label those of us who have gone to … Continue reading →

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September 15, 2009

Suddenly there Came a Tapping… Tide Watching in Baltimore and People can Say I’m Not a Christian but…

From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.–Saint Arnold of Metz, The patron Saint of Brewers Oktoberfest at Gordon Biersch Tonight was nice, after a tough couple of days dealing with the death of a baby that … Continue reading →

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September 14, 2009

The Ideological War: How Hitler’s Racial Theories Influenced German Operations in Poland and Russia

Introduction Einsatzgruppen Massacre sites (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org) The German war against the Soviet Union was the first truly race-based ideological war in history with the campaign against Poland its precursor. Adolf Hitler’s racial theories and beliefs played a dominant role in Germany’s … Continue reading →

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September 13, 2009

Going to War: Tripping into Ta Qaddum

CH-53s and CH-47s Our interlude in Fallujah over we waited in a tent outside the helicopter terminal operations building after RP1 Roland dropped us off. Roland was good and helped hook us up with some of the Marines to get … Continue reading →

A Navy Brat Grows Up…Sort of

Edison NJROTC on USS Gray FF-1054 I grew up in a Navy family. I was born in a Navy hospital, and my brother was baptized in a Navy Chapel. I went to 6 elementary schools in three states in 6 … Continue reading →

The most dangerous assignment: 4 More Advisers Die In Afghanistan

Isolated Embedded Training Team Base Once know and relatively unglamorous group of American military men have suffered multiple casualties in a single engagement. These men belong to are small units that do not have a lot of organic firepower. They … Continue reading →

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September 10, 2009

Crash Davis, Billy Chapel and Padre Steve: Being old but still part of the Game

Nuke and Crash I’ve always related to the characters in Kevin Costner’s baseball films, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and For the Love of the Game. The main characters in each of the films touch me each in different way … Continue reading →

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Monthly Archives: September 2009

PTSD²: Learning to Live Together When Both of You Have PTSD

The Art and Science of Staying Awake and Going to Sleep When You Have PTSD

Mortain to Market-Garden: A Study in How Armies Improvise in Rapidly Changing Situations

Survival on the Home Front: Dealing with Other People’s Reactions to My PTSD

Suddenly there Came a Tapping… Tide Watching in Baltimore and People can Say I’m Not a Christian but…

Going to War: Tripping into Ta Qaddum

A Navy Brat Grows Up…Sort of

The most dangerous assignment: 4 More Advisers Die In Afghanistan

Crash Davis, Billy Chapel and Padre Steve: Being old but still part of the Game

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