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Ron Capps is a writer, US Army and Foreign Service veteran, and founder of the Veterans Writing Project, a nonprofit organization that hosts free writing workshops for veterans and others. Capps also wrote the book Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years , a book that details his own experiences with PTSD ( Posttraumatic stress disorder ).
The NYU Veterans Writing Workshop at New York University in Manhattan, New York is a free, non-partisan outreach program offered to the veteran community in and around New York City [1] and is considered by some as the pre-eminent writing workshop for veterans.
Robert L. Hilliard (born June 25, 1925, New York City) is an American World War II veteran, activist, and academic of communication studies. During and directly after World War II, he informed American citizens and politicians of the plight of concentration camp survivors, and of those survivors taken to an unequipped hospital which was formerly St. Ottillien Monastery in the district of ...
That gaiety hides a deeper, lasting pain at losing loved ones in combat. A 2004 study of Vietnam combat veterans by Ilona PIvar, now a psychologist the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that grief over losing a combat buddy was comparable, more than 30 years later, to that of bereaved a spouse whose partner had died in the previous six months.
As recently as 2009, Litz was writing that despite evidence of a rising tide of moral injury among troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, clinicians and researchers were “failing to pay sufficient attention” to the problem, that “questions about moral injury [were] not being addressed,” and that clinicians who came across cases ...
WGF is working in close partnership with Family Values @ Work and the National Partnership for Women & Families on national strategies, while working in deep collaboration with Pathways PA, the Women's Law Project, Keystone Research, Community Legal Services, the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor and Governor Wolf's office to pass ...
Annual scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate excellence and exceptional dedication to their project. [16] As of April 2018, 1,779 students had participated in the program, documenting the stories of 1,824 veterans. [17] The program is active in 25 school chapters located in 17 Arizona cities. [18]
The Veterans History Project commemorated its 10th anniversary through a host of various events and initiatives, including a commemorative anniversary event. [20] The featured speaker for this event was James H. Billington, the 13th Librarian of Congress, who called upon Americans to collect the stories of veterans on September 29th, 2010. [21]