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• Girl, 12, forced to wear diaper in public after 'F' on report card, police say

  Wed May 9, 2012
  • Those parents should be locked up and the key thrown away...utter humiliation for the 12 year old girl, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and just plain "stupid and unacceptable" behavior by parents.

• Woman told she was 'too fat to fly' sues Southwest Airlines

  Fri May 4, 2012
  • Last year my wife and I had two seats to fly from Denver to LA. I was very sick, suffering from food poisoning...I could not drink anything, I was just sick. We had the midddle and window seats.

• Veterans battle PTSD stigma -- even if they don't have it

  Wed Mar 28, 2012
  • I have been diagnosed with PTSD by VA...they are taking care of me with 150% support and caring. I taught elementary school for 30+ years, finally, the sleeplessness, anxiety, the anger, the intimacy,the startle response, need to patrol the house at night...all became real and I sought help.

• For alleged Afghan shooter, death penalty unlikely

  Fri Mar 23, 2012
  • I am sure of one thing: PTSD is fucking real...those of us who have done numerous deployments, whether Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, we all look into the window of PTSD...the ugly window of this mental problem...I am not for the death penalty for this soldier, I am not for the "kill the bastard" …

• Defense official: Staff Sgt. Robert Bales to face 17 murder counts in Afghanistan massacre

  Thu Mar 22, 2012
  • You know, continous deployments, year after year, without much of a break between can cause one to lose it. PTSD is not a hidden disease, it is so real, so real.

• 'Lesbians are cool' T-shirt puts Massachusetts school in national spotlight

  Mon Mar 12, 2012
  • I look at this current controversy, and accept it...yes, the kids can wear what they want...WHY? well, I remember coming home from V.

• Family loses two sons in Afghanistan

  Sun Mar 11, 2012
  • This family has two heros, America's best! May they rest in peace, peace that they were fighting for...my prayers go out to the family and our service men and women still down range, in harms way...Damn Few....

• Game hunt for sacred white buffaloes riles Native groups

  Wed Mar 7, 2012
  • R C Edge: I agree wholeheartedly, I live Keauhou...aloha, brudda....

• Game hunt for sacred white buffaloes riles Native groups

  Wed Mar 7, 2012
  • As Black Elk says, let us always respect the White Buffalo..."our sacred Pipe,may peace cometo those peoples who can understand, an understnding whcih must be of the heart and not of the head alone." Let us always find ourselves respecting the White Buffalo and feeling the good medicine that evolves …

• Game hunt for sacred white buffaloes riles Native groups

  Wed Mar 7, 2012
  • The White Buffalo is sacred to the Lakota tribe....as I remember, it is called Wakan -Tanka or something very similiar...the White Buffalo should never be desecrated and killed...it should be looked at and respected. I support my Sioux brothers and sisters of the Dakotas.