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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips VA: PTSD and TBI "Overblown"; Like "Football" Injuries clipped by: cptenaud clippers remarks: VA secretary Peake suggested some of the concern about post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury has been overblown. Many of the brain injuries are serious but some of them are akin to what anyone who played football in their youth might have suffered, Peake told Guinn. Guinn wasnt entirely satisfied with the answers. He said its a real issue for returning soldiers as well as their families, and he doesnt think job training is enough. Frankly, Peakes casually dismissive attitude sucks. Being hunted by other humans every day for 15 months, watching your friend bleed to death, and having your brain flattened like a pancake from a thousand-pound detonation are not comparable to football injuries. Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com VA Secretary James Peake continued to show little respect for the service of Americas newest veterans yesterday by dismissing concerns about the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.   Speaking alongside Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) in a remote Alaskan village, Peake first used the word "overblown" when discussing PTSD and TBI and then made a "football" comparison. From the Anchorage Daily News: A Vietnam veteran in Bethel, John Guinn, told Stevens and Peake he was worried about whats going to happen to the village soldiers back from the Middle East. He said everyone is proud of them now. But what happens in a few years when these men, highly trained in combat, cant find jobs, start drinking and going a little crazy, he asked. There arent people in tiny villages trained to deal with mental health issues, he said. "Its going to cause a commotion in their village," Guinn said. "Im scared." Tags: more, of, the, same zum Artikel... Anzeige My, look how youve grown clipped by: The Ether Cafe Clip Source: arts.guardian.co.uk Thanks to TV makeover shows, were used to seeing people transform themselves almost instantly from a tragic "before" to a magically beautiful "after". But the website colorwar2008.com challenged its readers to take part in a before-and-after photographic competition that would not require counting calories, rhinoplasty or a layered bob by John Frieda. The project - youngmenowme - asked participants to find pictures of themselvesas children and recreate them as they are today. The project is the latest idea of internet legend zefrank, one of the earliest bloggers and a man who has previously managed to persuade strangers from Britain and Australia, Peru and Vietnam to photograph themselves placing slices of white bread on the pavement in order to create an "Earth sandwich". "It made me remember that I was afraid of nothing, and completely comfortable doing whatever I felt I needed to do," says Alyssa Timon, who is captured scratching her bottom in both nappies and jeans. Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de