Sunday, September 17, 2006

ARTS OF WAR

Utah Program Offers Help for Returning Soldiers
Utah today launched a groundbreaking program to give returning war veterans and their families the counseling they might need. The state wants to be certain they don't fight personal battles when they get home. Deadly combat takes a toll on troops and strains their families, too. In an all-volunteer military, troops are older, married and supporting families, but returning troops can face psychological problems that threaten their lives.


ARTS OF WAR: Vets turning scenes stuck in their head into healing works
Books, plays, movies create an outlet to vent trauma, anger


Soldiers mass in a scene from 'The Ground Truth,' a documentary where soldiers share their war experiences.

A soldier's library
Below are works by soldier writers and filmmakers who served in the War on Terror:
Books
• Keith Armstrong, Suzanne Best & Paula Domenici, "Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families"
• Colby Buzzell, "My War: Killing Time in Iraq"
• John Crawford, "The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell"
• Nathaniel Fick, "One Bullet Away"
• Jason Christopher Harley, "Just Another Soldier"
• Paul Rieckhoff, "Chasing Ghosts"
• Brian Turner, "Here, Bullet"
• Kayla Williams, "Love My Rifle More Than You"
Films
Ground Truth
Gunner Palace
The Sand Storm
Other projects
Voices in Wartime Education Project

-- Compiled by Lorraine Ash
And there are others as well, with more to come, just as it was back in my day after 'Nam!



Records: Troubles vexed suspect before slayings
According to letters to the VA and conversations with his friends, Duzant thought he was the victim of Gulf War Syndrome.


Mystery Deepens in Case of Missing Colorado Marine who Served in Iraq War
The story was compelling. A marine home on leave from his first tour of duty in Iraq was injured in a fall while hiking down a mountain with a friend and vanished after the friend went to call for help.

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