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Surrounded By Taliban, But He Took Them On
This is the face of a truly brave man. I’m sure many, when faced with the challenges he faced, would not have been able to act with the level of bravery and skill that Staff Sgt. Lincoln Dockery did. It all started on an ordinary day in eastern Afghanistan. Dockery’s platoon had been ordered to... »
Mother Not Allowed To See Her Injured Son
This would have to be a mom’s worst nightmare. Her son is overseas fighting in Iraq, and she gets word that his troop was involved in a serious bombing attack. I would image she would wait nervously for the news about her son’s fate. Tammy Gollinger knows how this feels. She received word from the... »
Not Enough Health Care For Veterans
I believe I’ve posted before on the absolute mess our veterans are in when dealing with health care. And so many veterans are in desperate need of good health care. Why is this so hard for our government to provide? These men and women put themselves on the line for their country. The least... »
Women In Combat
As time goes on, more and more women are signing up to serve in the military. In previous years, the roles these women played were, more often than not, set far from the front lines. Now as they gain more traction in the military factions, women are beginning to appear on the front lines... »
Jack Lucas: Dedicated Marine
Jack Lucas was a cadet captain in the military school where his mother had enrolled him after his father’s death when he heard radio reports of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The next day he promised his mother that if she let him enlist, he would come home after the war and finish... »
Duchess Of Cornwall Meets With Injured Soldiers
His shattered body slumped on a hospital bed, triple amputee Craig Wood tells Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, about his desperate wish to walk again. At just 18, he is one of the youngest British soldiers to lose three limbs after he was horrifically injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan in July. Doctors were forced to... »
Compassion Knows No Boundries
This photo is touching. The wounded soldier is just a kid, and this photo does nothing to soften that reality. He’s someone son, sent out onto the battlefield to fight for someone else’s ideals, here wounded, in pain, and obviously scared. An American soldier, the enemy, is reaching out and taking care of him,... »
Respect The Wounded
Those who put themselves in the line of danger deserve every bit of respect we can give them; those who are injured in their duty doubly so. Then why did I run across this article on Dailymail.co.uk today? A young man by the name of Matthew Weston was serving in Afghanistan when he had the... »
Medic Puts Her Charges Above Herself
This story hit the internet yesterday via the Daily Mail.co.uk website. It never ceases to amaze me how these men and women can bravely put their well-being, or even their lives, on the line to help out a fellow soldier or an innocent civilian. In this story of heroism, Lance Corporal Sally Clarke put... »
Veterans Encouraged to Join the Paralympics
Many of our veterans have been coming home wounded. Many have been critically injured, with their injuries being so severe that there is no longer any hope or chance of them living completely normal lives again. Many soldiers have undergone amputations, or violent loss of limbs, and others suffer from being paralyzed. The list... »