Vietnam Veterans

Spike Lee has a bad reaction to the Republican governor of Georgia’s plan to lift quarantine and reopen movie theaters.The order would go into effect April 27, at a time when Covid-19 is still sweeping the country, causing more than 45,000 deaths in the United States while sickening at least…

As Australia prepares to mark an Anzac Day unlike any other, our veterans are facing the challenge of physical separation during a time that is traditionally more about unity.Some fear for how their mates in isolation will cope with the flashbacks commemorations bring. Others are embracing the opportunity for quiet…

‘‘I just plod along and do what I like to do — which are realistic figures,’’ she told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. She had gone to art school when abstraction dominated, but she said she preferred figurative works and had little interest in pieces that could horrify or…

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When she contracted the novel coronavirus, Elana Duffy remembered the acrid smoke she breathed in from her Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, where jet fuel burned everything from broken furniture to human feces in toxic pits. “I actually was saying prior to getting , I wonder if I would get…

In late February, the Trump administration said it planned to spend $2.5 billion to fight the coronavirus. A month and a half later, President Trump signed off on spending almost a thousand times as much — $2.35 trillion. And that amount doesn’t include the Federal Reserve’s efforts, which are harder…

©Tom Sanders, from Vietnam War Portraits The Vietnam War was an endless and divisive conflict that resulted in a population of veterans who suffered long term scars from the horrors of war, returning to little support from a country that was ad odds with the conflict. Photographer Tom Sanders has…

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—Abstract When posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) entered the DSM, support for the diagnosis was a critical part of advocacy for Vietnam veterans. Over the next two decades, the range of contexts in which this clinical concept was applied increased dramatically. In a recent article, Breslau describes PTSD as a ‘prominent…