The night I met Airman Leonard Reh was his last on earth. He died 25 years ago this fall. His death is tragic and the basis for some of my own struggles still to this day. I was a brand …
(M)ilitary (S)exual (T)rauma by Anonymous
Military Sexual Trauma they say, or simply “MST”An acronym for ease or one really just to hide the dis-ease? When it happened to me there were no acronymsand certainly not much awareness I went into the military in the era …
#IAmVanessaGuillen by Alyssa Nelson
#IAmVanessaGuillen covered social media for months following the disappearance and brutal death of Vanessa Guillen, an SPC in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Hood, TX. Using this hashtag, many active-duty service members and veterans have come forward to share …
Two Wise Women: A Time to Embrace by Teresa K. Howes
Emotionally bereft, I focus on the technical aspects of traveling into Kuwait City, Kuwait, with several civilian-clothed soldiers on a contract bus driven by a Third Country National who doesn’t know the area well, either. The marketplace or the Souk …