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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Military

An article in the New York Times by Iraq war veteran Michael Jernigan offers a significant educational tool for understanding the transition into society that returning veterans face. [Website Ed.]

October 25, 2009, 9:00 pm

T

he Minefield at Home
By Michael Jernigan
Katherine Streeter

In August 2004, while on patrol with my Marine unit in Mahmudiya, Iraq, I was severely wounded by a roadside bomb. My wounds included a crushed skull and right hand, traumatic brain injury and the loss of both my eyes.

I am not alone. In the past eight years, many of the 35,000 American soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have returned home. But many of us have also returned with deep emotional wounds, and those are harder to see.

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A Joyful Summary: UCC Mental Illness Network

A Joyful Summary of the
Newly Reconstituted United Church of Christ Mental Illness Network (UCC-MIN)
October 2, 2009

At the recent Pathways to Promise Interfaith Summit Conference on Mental Illness from Sept. 29-October 1, 2009 in Bellevill

e, IL, the UCC MIN has been renewed. A new Steering Committee was formed and the new Chair of the Network is Alan Johnson.

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Who Could Ask for More?

From the notebook of the Rev. Linda Bigler, pastor of Humboldt Congregational UCC in Iowa and a member of the United Church of Christ Board of Directors:

September 26, 2009

The Homecoming Court

Homecoming wouldn’t be Homecoming witho

ut a King and Queen, and Humboldt is no exception of course. Each girl and boy being considered for King or Queen rode in their own convertible in the (Homecoming) parade. Of course they were all dressed to the nines and were having fun waving to all of us along the way.

But our Homecoming Court story made news throughout the state and maybe it will make the national “feel good” news, too.

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Wounded Warrior Care

News Story

Monday, June 01, 2009

By Sandra Basu | U.S. Medicine, June 2009
Used with permission from U.S. Medicine

More support for the family caregivers of those injured in war is needed, a panel of wounded servicemembers and family memb

ers told Congress. Dealing with severe injury and trauma is not easy,” Army Lt. Col. Gregory Gadson, an amputee told a Senate subcommittee. “When we consider the myriad of injuries, as well as the unfamiliarity a typical family has in dealing with an injured servicemember, it is easy to understand how difficult a task it is for recovery.”

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