Biography
Chaplain at DAV Auxiliary Chapter 16. Wife of Vietnam Veteran. Chaplain Kathie is also a PTSD Consultant and operates the blog
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Nam Guardian Angel
149 killed this year in Afghanistan and 24 in Iraq. Almost six months of combat 173 killed. This is day 149 of this year meaning at least 2,682 veterans have taken their own lives so far.
May 29th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »
According to Fort Hood officials, during the week of April 10th-16th there were 11 cases of domestic violence and two reported cases of sexual assault. From May 8th-14th, there were 10 reported cases of domestic violence and three cases of sexual assault.
May 27th, 2011 | Posted in Military,Support the Troops | Read More »
The Veterans Affairs Department’s Veterans Crisis Line received 14,000 calls in April, the highest monthly volume ever recorded for the four-year-old suicide prevention program.
May 25th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
“They were treating him for PTSD while he was still over there (in Iraq),” said Mark Charters of Midland, Brooks’ uncle. “They gave him an honorable discharge, a month’s worth of pills and then told him that he wasn’t eligible for help at the VA hospital because he hadn’t served 24 months of active duty.”
May 19th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
The headline read “Woman” but when you read more of the report you see the words “US military in Iraq” and you know that there is much more to this story we may never know.
May 18th, 2011 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
When we talk about not wanting to be tracked by the iPhone, we do it because we don’t like to have our privacy challenged. When the owner of an iPhone happens to be in the military, we should be asking if this is putting their lives at risk. Stop and think about all the programs [...]
April 28th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE BREAKING: White House releases Obama’s birth certificate By: CNN Political Unit (CNN) – The White House released President Obama’s original birth certificate Wednesday. The surprise release follows recent and sustained remarks by businessman Donald Trump, among others, that raised doubts as to whether the president was born in the United States. Obama’s [...]
April 24th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Outraged by a change in a counseling contract that provides mental health care to military personnel and their families, a Missoula therapist is waging a one-person war to defend soldiers’ rights.
April 17th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
There are so many secrets this country has, it is hard to know where to begin. It isn’t that no one is talking about these things, but too many are dismissing them as just rumors. Nothing new really. Considering when veterans of wars going back to the Revolution, came home with what we call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder today, up until 40 years ago, no one was doing anything about it other than looking for excuses to ignore their pain.
April 14th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
This is wrong on so many levels, it really is hard to know where to start. Let’s start with the National Guards and Reservists. For them, being without jobs as this article suggests, because of fear they will be redeployed, shows the ignorance of employers. They are missing hiring people they already depend on. National Guards and Reservists show up every time there is a disaster right in their own community.
April 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
We were not asked to sacrifice anything. Not our money. Not our time to pay attention and not even asked to sacrifice our prayers. The general public was told to go shopping and the rich, well, they were told to keep more of their money and do whatever they wanted with it. War was important enough to start but not enough to fund.
March 20th, 2011 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
by Chaplain Kathie They face bullets and bombs, watch friends die, risk their lives everyday for a year at a time, endure no sleep, lousy food when they get to eat, spend their days worrying about what is going on where they are at the same time they worry about what is going on back [...]
March 11th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
First let me say that being right does no good if no one listens. Too many years ago, I noticed a difference between civilian survivors and participants. By that I mean, law enforcement and military personnel. There is one kind of PTSD survivors experience after a crime, natural disaster, accidents and abuse but there is another type when people are part of the traumatic event itself. Then there is the type after violence was used in response coupled with the constant threat of more events.
March 10th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
Americans have always made it part of national voice to honor the men and women serving this country. Talk is cheap when it comes to politicians even thinking about cutting funds to veterans after they have served. When they risk their lives for this country, that is a debt we owe them. If the wars they are sent to fight are important enough to ask them to go, then we owe them for whatever happens to them afterwards. If they get hurt/wounded on the job, they would expect nothing less from a civilian employer and Workman’s Comp. Since when did any elected official decide that what we owe them is fair game in a budget battle?
March 5th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
Since when did the Constitution or the Bill of Rights allow free speech to take hostages? That is what we’re talking about when families are forced to listen to a group of hateful people stalking, harassing and intimidating them. Every time there is a military funeral, families have to add in Westboro showing up as [...]
March 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Heroes,Military,Support the Troops | Read More »
It has been nearly impossible to comprehend where these sudden concerns about the deficit came from. Why? Because the people doing the most complaining were in charge when it all happened.
March 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
Will the GOP ever understand that when it comes to veterans, they cannot pay the price for their service depending on who is in charge or which way the wind blows? They served this country in good financial times as well as bad times. They get hurt, by body or mind, because the elected at the time decided to send them to war. Some of them signed up because we were at war while others signed up in case we had to go to war. What they need should never, ever be fair game in budget battles.
March 1st, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
There are so many reports and articles on PTSD that you’d think it is a well known issue everyone knows about. Unlike the ads for erectile dysfunction (ED) so well searched for the term pops up with just “erec” typed into Google or Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) medication, we don’t see ads for medications for PTSD. How did these topics end up with multi-million dollar ad campaigns? Was it out of the goodness of their hearts corporations paid to spread the word? No, they have a product to sell so they spread the word about issues a lot of people suffered with silently. RA is painful but did not come with a stigma attached to it. Erectile dysfunction had a huge “shame” factor, so men didn’t talk about it while women complained to their friends about it.
February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
Sally Satel is still at it with the support from American Enterprise Institute. For years she’s been trying to say that PTSD is nothing more than veterans looking for an easy ride. She hasn’t changed and her claims remain that taking care of veterans with PTSD is a waste of money.
February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
Veterans Affairs Department officials say they can now see an end to the long nightmare of an ever-growing mountain of disability and compensation claims that has long infuriated veterans and their families.
February 14th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
“The Army denied Spc. Brandon Barrett a military funeral.” Why? Is it because he had a shootout with police or because what they did not do could have prevented it? That is the question an investigation seeks to understand. After he was killed by police, after there was nothing left to be done for him, [...]
February 13th, 2011 | Posted in Heroes,Military,Support the Troops | Read More »
Gulf War Veterans Came Home Ill But NO One Knew Why…… The American people, thinking it was such a fast war, there would be hardly no new casualties to worry about or take care of. Hard to believe it has been 20 years but even harder to believe is that these veterans are still trying [...]
February 12th, 2011 | Posted in Heroes,Military,Support the Troops | Read More »
I thought getting the clergy involved in helping veterans would be easy…. By Chaplain Kathie STAFF WRITER Living in Florida, knowing this state has over a million veterans and at least one church on every major street, I thought getting the clergy involved in helping veterans would be easy. I was totally wrong. A couple [...]
February 12th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,PTSD | Read More »
Murder in Tampa studied by Russia? What could be so interesting about a murder in Tampa that Russian President Medvedev would have the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences study it? There have been more horrible cases around the world involving a parent killing children. Julie Schenecker said she killed them because they were talking back. [...]
February 10th, 2011 | Posted in Military | Read More »
One of the biggest problems tracking reports across the country is that there are days when I get hit with more news than I can stand. It makes my head hurt to think of how far we’ve come, then get whacked with one bad news report after another. Florida More South Florida war veterans at [...]
February 9th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
…they survive combat but cannot survive back home By Chaplain Kathie STAFF WRITER The reports have come out for years. They survive combat but cannot survive back home. We read a lot about suicides when they are discovered by family members hanging at home, lifeless from a bullet wound shot by their own hand and [...]
February 7th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
The DOD releases reports of what they’re doing as if it is all good but the truth is, it is not all good. There have been a lot of advances in the care of wounded servicemen and women. While that is true, the stories the veterans tell show that all is not well on the [...]
February 6th, 2011 | Posted in Heroes,Military,Support the Troops | Read More »
Bachmann sort of backed off but when she talks about freezing veterans healthcare funding, that is a huge problem. It is wrong headed thinking that got us into the mess we’re in now when it comes to taking care of our veterans. She seems to have forgotten that the population of veterans is not just [...]
February 5th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
It happened in Tampa. A Mom shot and killed her son, then went to her daughter’s room and killed her too. She said she was tired of them talking back to her. This story would be emotionally wrenching as it is but the teenagers didn’t have their Dad at home. He had to learn about [...]
February 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
This happened last Sunday. An Iraq veteran lives across the street from a church and decided to wave a gun as people arrived for worship. Why? According to the report he didn’t want them parking in front of his house. The police put the church on lockdown. No one knew what was going on. In [...]
January 29th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
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