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Managing Editor . Author: They Fought for Each Other. Co-Author: Fight Like a Girl. Army vet. Kidney donor. Combat ballerina.
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We are now accepting applications for our Writing Seminar for Post- 9/11 Gold Star Children set for this spring. Eligible applicants will have lost a parent or legal guardian serving on active duty after Sept. 11, 2001. Read more here: ow.ly/phNS50MGRk8 #miltwitter
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Gold Star Children--who are now adults. Apply to join us in Texas as we work through what that means and how it has changed us:
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We are now accepting applications for our Writing Seminar for Post- 9/11 Gold Star Children set for this spring. Eligible applicants will have lost a parent or legal guardian serving on active duty after Sept. 11, 2001. Read more here: ow.ly/phNS50MGRk8 #miltwitter
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“The signs were there,” a mother tells for The War Horse. “I didn’t hear him the way I needed to hear him.”ow.ly/u1CG50MHUzP #suicideawareness #military #nationalguard
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If anyone wants more information about how that works, hit me. I'm more than happy to make introductions. kelly.kennedy@thewarhorsenews.org
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The first sergeant has driven across the country to grab them up. The guys will send out a call to action: Who's in Atlanta? Has anyone talked to his wife? It's amazing, and it's replicable.
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But since they built this community, the numbers have decreased greatly. I thought it would never work--that no one would say, "Hey. This is it." But they do. They reach out.
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They have created a phone list and a plan of action if any of their folks start acting like they need something. We've lost so many in that unit--they were hit harder than any other battalion, only to come home and lose at least a dozen more to suicide.
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The Blue Spaders--the guys I wrote about in They Fought For Each Other--have come up with a pretty good solution: They have a private FB page set up for their particular cohort--the guys who served in Iraq in 2007.
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We never got ahead of the curve on this one, and the issues the National Guard soldiers face are essentially the same ones active-duty soldiers face when they leave the military and scatter to the winds.
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I was thinking about the reporting we've done on military suicide over the years--by "we," I mean any reporter in the military space who was paying attention--and I'm not seeing a repeat so much as a continuation.
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Part II is out Tuesday, and Part III is out Thursday. If you're an editor, we can give you an advance look.
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One of its largest spikes came because of the suicide deaths of soldiers who had deployed between 2010 and 2012 within the state’s infantry battalions, the 181st and 182nd.
#investigativejournalism #nonprofitnews
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Four service members in the Massachusetts National Guard have died in combat since the start of the post-9/11 wars. As many as three dozen of its soldiers and airmen have died by suicide in that same span.
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But it wasn’t true. None of it was true.
They completed their mission abroad, and Stewart brought 684 of them home. But within 12 months, at least four soldiers had taken their own lives.
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At the brewery, DeLano, 36, skipped the beer. He had been diagnosed with throat cancer, he told Stewart.
“What are the doctors telling you?” Stewart asked, concerned about an enlisted soldier who had come to rely on him.
“They said I’m going to make it through,” DeLano said.
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DeLano had texted Stewart and asked to meet up—he had something important to tell him, Lara Salahi writes for The War Horse News.
“Sir, I need to see you,” the text read.
Stewart had retired from the Massachusetts Army National Guard more than a year earlier.
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It has been through both copy-edit and fact-check, and photos and headlines are provided.
Col. Tom Stewart saw Staff Sgt. Chris DeLano for the last time at a brewery in Brookfield, Mass, writes for .
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This is part one in a three-part series, supported by a Rosalynn Mental Health Journalism fellowship.
It's available for editors to republish, similar to how works, for free through the Republish button at the bottom of the story.
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And he’ll tell you why prosecutors didn’t pursue that route. Bonus: We talked to her boyfriend at the time, who worked for at the time—in direct opposition to her mission for Fidel.
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He’ll tell you more about the trip Cuban intelligence agents too to the States, risking their lives, before giving up some clues about Ana. And he’ll talk about what Ana told him during the debrief—including whether she knew she risked the death penalty.
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Y’all. My pal and I have a book up for preorder. For 17 years, Ana Montez spied for Cuba while working for . Pete and his partner caught her. She just got out of prison, and Pete’s got crazy details:
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. out with members/subcommittee chairs for the 118th session -- more details from and I coming soon:
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US air strike in Somalia 'kills 30 al-Shabab militants'
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Steroids shrunk the tumor so small they can’t remove it, so we’re regrowing it. #sixmilliondollarcat
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Sunday morning with my poor miserable bubby. He has a fur-attacking tumor that appears to be after the inside of his nose. Rare, of course. Can’t breathe. He’s not eating and I’m injecting water down his throat. I hate this. #sickkitty #thymoma #exfoliatingdermatitis #ratbastahd
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A Presumption of Guilt: The Uncomfortable Identity of a ‘Disabled’ Veteran Who Feels Like an Imposter writes for
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No skyline speaks to home like Chicago. It comforts.
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Today, is launching The Repatriation Project.
Our first pieces look at the U.S. institutions/agencies that hold hundreds–in some cases thousands–of ancestral remains & belongings from Indigenous gravesites
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“The Army didn’t save my life. A friend did. He took my rifle from me when he knew what I wanted to say but couldn’t,” writes Cameron McMillan for The War Horse. ow.ly/AeTH50MnKpW #warhorsewednesday
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My Washington Post subscription allows me to share access to great journalism. Check out this gift article, at no cost to you.
Thank you WaPo and .
#anabelenmontes #cuba #queesofcuba #fbi #cuba
#espionage
Read here:
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You guys! Meet Marina! She'll be hitting it hard on VA/health issues for us, as well as the general-assignment schtuff we all do.
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Good News Debrief: We have a new addition to the team! We want to welcome Marina Villeneuve, one of The War Horse’s new investigative reporters. 
You can follow her on Twitter at @ReporterMarina or contact her on Signal at 617-453-8297.
You can follow her on Twitter at @ReporterMarina or contact her on Signal at 617-453-8297.
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The photo was published in Mark Bowden's book "Hué 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam." ow.ly/eK1v50Mj4x8 #goodnewsdebrief
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We've updated our impact timeline to showcase our accomplishments from 2022. To see how far we've come as an award-winning nonprofit newsroom, you can check out our journey here: ow.ly/AzLm50Mi9BR #warhorsewednesday #impact #nonprofit #miltwitter #news #growth
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resumes to jobs@thewarhorsenews.org Thanks!
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