Dreyfus affair

Establish a Supporters Program Communicating with all veterans organisations will trigger a lot of interest. People will want to become supporters. Whereas Volunteers are people who give their time to moderate or create content, “Supporters” can contribute in many smaller ways with active engagement. Examples include: Encouraging a VWM facebook post on key days Identifying potential memorial champions (or becoming one) Printing a PDF poster and putting on local notice boards Encouraging action…

Emotional Trauma is Psychological, or emotional trauma, is damage or injury to the psyche after living through an extremely frightening or distressing event and may result in challenges in functioning or coping normally after the event. Its can happen to anyone of any sort. I believe that the up most first people all over the world that would come to mind who suffer from this trauma are military personnel. I say this because we have an active force of over 1,500,000 infantry wise. They…

noted that "Sleep disturbances may further complicate the clinical presentation of PTSD" (Straus 8). Therefore, The traumatizing nightmares do not take place because of random issues, the "National Center for PTSD of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs" stated that the nightmares those with PTSD have are often associated with the trauma they experienced ("Nightmares"). Knowing that my grandma also fought in the Vietnam War, and remembering all the times I have heard him talk about his…

Veterans have successfully led our country to where it stands today. Veterans are people who have served in the military. They stood up for our country to help get many things we have today such as freedom. They helped defend the United States’ independence in many wars against powerful nations overseas. Although there are many things that are important to a nation, its veterans are important to its history and future because they defended our country and developed a path that impacts the future…

War is a critical engagement that does not end with the stop of guns t the battle field. More than 17,530 US troops in 2009 were hospitalized for mental disorders. Traumatic brain injury is the most prominent injury that occurs in war with more than 50% of all combat related casualties a result of brain injury. With the advances in treatment and evacuation, however, more wounded soldiers are surviving than they did just a few years ago. However, hundreds of thousands are coming home and…

“How could you tell your girlfriend what it was like for you to shoot another human being? How could you tell her how vulnerable and scared you felt, never knowing if you would live another hour…”1. These are the types of questions and horrors that keep veterans with PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) from returning to their normal lives before the war. PTSD is not only a disease that keeps people awake at night with nightmares; it is a disease that creeps into every aspect of their lives…

The modern day term PTSD was originally used to describe a soldier who was adversely affected by war. Over the course of time and studies, researchers found that the Holocaust, natural disasters, and man-made disasters could also be lead to PTSD symptoms. PTSD has evolved into a more common diagnosis but still each person evaluated must meet the criteria needed to classify their illness as PTSD but there is a very thin line between PTSD and moral injury. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a…

concerning the risk of dementia prior to their study. The objective of their study was to discover whether or not PTSD is linked to the risk of veterans developing dementia Dr. Yaffe and Associates did a cohort study using the Department of Veterans Affairs National Patient Care Database. The records were collected for patients who ranged from 55 to 100 years old, but had no dementia diagnosis between 1997 through 2000. Originally, over three million veterans who were served by the Veteran…

Abstract: Mental health and Veterans Mental health in the United States has always been a field of study that can be described as the new frontier for health exploration. The National Alliance of Mental Illness reports that roughly 61.5 million Americans experience some form of mental illness in any given year, and approximately 42 million American adults suffer from anxiety disorders like panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Many of…

It is easy to find out who won a war, and it is easy to find statistics on casualties and fatalities. What is less accessible however, is the intangible component that is mental survival. We know that many of those who survive wars develop some level or form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but we pay less attention to the mental state that exists for these soldiers during the war. During the most widespread war in history, WWII, countless individuals abandoned their lives of normality…