What Can The Church Say? A Sermon for Remembrance Day Sunday
Preached at All Saints, Collingwood, and St. Luke’s, Creemore, Anglican Diocese of Toronto, Remembrance Day Sunday, 13 November, 2022. Texts: Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9; Psalm 116:1-8; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John […]
Book Review: Brian Castner`s All The Ways We Kill and Die
My military ProD reading lately has included Brian Castner, one of the writers to have emerged from America`s post-9/11 wars. A US Air Force EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) officer, Castner […]
Book Review: David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service
David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service. Toronto: Bond Street Books, 2013. I am slowly working my way through a stack of books about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan […]
Video Games Revisited: When “Kill ‘Em All” Is Not A Valid Strategy
I’ve written here and elsewhere about the role of the video game, specifically the First Person Shooter (FPS) in military culture. As a guest writer on journalist and historian […]
“I’d Already Rehearsed How I Would Kill Myself”: New Treatment Hope For Those With PTSD
I’ve been tracking stories about eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) for about a year now, though the therapy has been around for several decades. I’m not a medical man, […]
US Army To Down Tools Tomorrow And Focus On Suicide Prevention
I noticed via Twitter that the US Army has announced that it will set aside normal business tomorrow, operations permitting, and deal with suicide awareness and prevention. That is a […]
New Data On Military Suicides
I meant to post on this story last week when it appeared. The NYT reported on 19 Jan that the US Army has released statistics showing that 2011 suicides among […]
Help for a veteran in “a perfect storm of things going wrong”
An encouraging story from Michigan about how the local courts and police worked with a veteran with PTSD to salvage his life. MP+ July 17, 2011Coming Together to Fight for […]
“He Was a Good Soldier”: White House Letters of Condolence To Go to Families of Military Suicides
A short op-ed piece from the New York Times, reprinted here in full. Thumbs up to the Obama Administration for including suicide in a war zone as cause for a […]
“He Tried Everything”: A Marine Loses HIs Long Fight With Suicide
A very sad story which I noticed in the US Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes. Here’s an excerpt from the Houston Chronicle. Sometimes a soldier, or for that matter, anyone, […]