Veterans battle the VA to have issues addressed

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the UN military operation, "Restore Hope" in Somalia. During that time, in 1992-1993 many US members of the armed forces were given an anti-malaria drug called Mefloquine. In the decades since, it was discovered that there were severe side effects that mimic PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury. The…

The Humble Prayer of a Confederate Soldier | Scott Fillmer

http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://josefrivera.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/the-humble-prayer-of-a-confederate-soldier-scott-fillmer/I found this poem when I was just out of bootcamp, and into my first year being a Marine.  I read this poem a lot, thinking about what it meant, took me a good few years before I started getting the gist of it.  Glad I did! The Prayer “I asked God for strength that…