The leading scorer on his high school basketball team in a small Georgia town, and a young man with political ambitions, Max Cleland's early life seemed promising.
Later, he headed the Veterans Administration, served in the U.S. Senate and today heads the American Battle Monuments Commission, founded in 1923 to manage overseas cemeteries and memorials honoring our veterans.
Cleland almost died in Vietnam when an exploding grenade destroyed both his legs and part of his right arm....>>>>
Max's Book: "Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove"
War vets living with post-traumatic stress disorder
Veterans suffering from PTSD can learn to live with the ghosts of war - with help
In his brown and tan correctional officer's uniform, Kevin Kerrigan is the picture of steady authority as he waits outside a door in a hallway in the second-floor jail section of the Delaware County Justice Center...>>>>
Mission Support helps soldiers deal with war
Twenty years ago in December, John Scroggins made a combat parachute jump into Panama with the Rangers.
At 63, he has been out of uniform for seven years. But nowadays Scroggins is helping Fort Bragg revise how it sends soldiers to war, brings them back and gets them ready to go again...>>>>
Military retiree launches online Army Family Support Center
The Army has developed a range of online resources to support the families of soldiers, especially deployed troops, but these can take hours of Web searches to locate and organize.
Jaque Davison, a retired Army helicopter pilot who has nearly three decades of experience in the construction of 3-D objects and virtual worlds, believes he has found a better way to manage and present that information....>>>>
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