Category Archives: MST

American women and guns

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Laura

The Second Amendment codified the right for (free) people to bear arms in 1791. Long before the movie Cold Mountain famously portrayed circumstances in which women protected themselves during the Civil War, Colonial women owned and used guns. Scholarship of probate inventories by … Continue reading →

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GOING UP? SIXTH FLOOR! SUICIDES AND MURDER

Posted on February 3, 2013 by asknod

I don’t mean that to be humorous. Everything is going up. The delay times in our adjudications. The time to get in to VAMC for a mental health evaluation. The price of gas. And so on. What shouldn’t be, is. … Continue reading →

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PTSD AT MADIGAN CLINIC

Posted on September 10, 2012 by asknod

Obviously, when I come into possession of information about Vets, or even soon-to-be-Vets on the cusp of separation, I feel obligated to regurgitate it here. Sometimes what I get is from what need be considered a classified source. This is … Continue reading →

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Military Sexual Trauma

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Laura

ASKNOD forwarded a recent article from another member to me for comment.   The article, by Jamie Goldberg, is entitled Military sexual assault victims’ PTSD claims are neglected, a House panel told.  After doing some research, I learned that there is an … Continue reading →

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