Schools that serve
Hundreds of U.S. colleges responded to our survey on how they recruit and support military veterans
STORIES AND RESEARCH BY CID STANDIFER - STAFF WRITER
Wednesday Nov 2, 2011 9:42:37 EDT
With about one-tenth the population of Washington, D.C., Rapid City, S.D., is a bustling metropolis of 68,000 with tourist magnets such as the largest private collection of black bears in the world and a park containing seven enormous dinosaur statues.
It also happens to be home to one of this year’s top colleges for veterans, beating out a number of nationally renowned institutions.
The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a relatively small school of about 2,400 students, but more than 150 of them are veterans or active-duty personnel. The school has a central veterans’ office, nine staff members who deal primarily with vets and comprehensive policies for students who need to withdraw because of military obligations or whose benefits are delayed.
This tiny school nestled in the Black Hills raises the question: Why has SDSM&T gone above and beyond for its veterans, while some of America’s most prestigious colleges don’t have any staff at all dedicated to helping vets?
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
North Carolina Soldier Among 17 Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Attack
Local Soldier Among 17 Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Attack
by Audrina Bigos
Oct 31, 2011
SHELBY, NC- A local family mourns the loss of U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Newman. The soldier from Shelby was one of 13 Americans and four others killed Saturday in Afghanistan.
Sgt. Newman was Shelby born and raised.
Newman graduated from Crest High School in 2004, leaving behind his younger brother, Brent Newman.
Brent thought his brother's 6’-6’’, 280 pound build made him invincible.
"I'm thinking, just that right there, he ain't getting killed," said Newman.
Brent's grandparents knocked on his door early Sunday morning to tell him his brother was dead.
Sgt. Newman was one of 13 Americans and four others killed on an armored Nato bus in Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban suicide bomber rammed the bus with a car filled with explosives.
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From ICasualties.org
by Audrina Bigos
Oct 31, 2011
SHELBY, NC- A local family mourns the loss of U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Newman. The soldier from Shelby was one of 13 Americans and four others killed Saturday in Afghanistan.
Sgt. Newman was Shelby born and raised.
Newman graduated from Crest High School in 2004, leaving behind his younger brother, Brent Newman.
Brent thought his brother's 6’-6’’, 280 pound build made him invincible.
"I'm thinking, just that right there, he ain't getting killed," said Newman.
Brent's grandparents knocked on his door early Sunday morning to tell him his brother was dead.
Sgt. Newman was one of 13 Americans and four others killed on an armored Nato bus in Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban suicide bomber rammed the bus with a car filled with explosives.
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From ICasualties.org
11/01/11 DoD: Army Casualties Idenitified (1 of 4)
Lt. Col. David E. Cabrera, 41, of Abilene, Texas, assigned to Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md...died Oct. 29, in Kabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.
11/01/11 DoD: Army Casualties Idenitified (2 of 4)
Staff Sgt. Christopher R. Newman, 26, of Shelby, N.C., assigned to Medical Company A, Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii...died Oct. 29, in Kabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.
11/01/11 DoD: Army Casualties Idenitified (3 of 4)
Sgt. James M. Darrough, 38, of Austin, Texas, assigned to 101st Finance Company, 101st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky...died Oct. 29, in Kabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.
11/01/11 DoD: Army Casualties Idenitified (4 of 4)
Sgt. Carlo F. Eugenio, 29, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., assigned to 756th Transportation Company, 224th Sustainment Brigade, California Army National Guard, Van Nuys, Calif....died Oct. 29, in Kabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.
Report says increasing number of suicides is unacceptable?
It would be impossible to count how many reports have come out over the years regarding military suicides but this is ridiculous.
How many more years will we read the same type of comments made and still see the suicide rate go up?
This report has been posted all over the web but it took James Dao of the New York Times to go further into the report listing the recommendations.
Among the steps listed is this
Shocker! The number of suicides has gone up so they want to REDUCE the number of prevention programs? How about they take a look at the fact nothing they have listed will actually address the problem because up until now, they have proven to have failed.
The DOD is still under the delusion the men and women entering into the military are able to "train their brains" to become mentally tough. Everything they have based their programs on leans on this approach. The problem is, they are telling men and women already tough enough to enter into the military they are weak. This leaves them feeling as if it is their fault if they end up with PTSD, thus, mentally weak and didn't train properly.
The last thing National Guards and Reservists need is to have something taken away from them. When they come home they go back into their communities among people without a single clue about where they just left. They need more support programs, not less.
Back to what has been done and the fact it has not worked can be directly tied to repeated failures. Getting care should never depend upon who the man or woman serves under but depend on standard orders. Kicking out PTSD soldiers is not the answer since there have been many reports of them staying in after being helped to heal and they are still serving today.
When the Army released a study showing a 50% increase risk of PTSD with each redeployment they should have geared up to address it considering they have sent troops back over and over again but did nothing to prepare for the increased mental anguish this would cause. They just kept pushing the programs based on Battlemind bullshit but changed the title of the failure to sound better.
They will continue to see increased suicides as long as they keep repeating proven failures.
What works would require the DOD to understand PTSD as well as understand the men and women serving in the military. To this day I have not read a single report addressing the difference between combat PTSD and PTSD in the general population. They do not address the different levels of it and they have yet to come to terms with the fact some turn to self-medicating so they don't have to use prescription drugs that make them feel worse. Some turn to street drugs so they don't have to report they have a problem because of the stigma associated with in by too many commanders still treating them as if they are "weak" minded. It is almost as if some have given up on PTSD veterans instead of discovering how much better they are when they have been treated properly after being battle tested and healed.
If they really want to treat the troops they have to understand them and the simple fact that PTSD is a wound to the soul. The Greeks use the word "trauma" for wound. Not cuts and blood but an emotional wounding. To address it properly it requires spiritual healing under whatever faith they already have and not the one the government wants issued to them. If they claim to be a "spiritual person" with no faith base, then treat them spiritually. If they claim to be Christian but "churchless" then treat them the way Christ did and take care of them as humans. Drop the push to get behinds in the pews of one faith over another. If they are Jewish, treat them under their own faith and the same goes for Muslims.
Use of common sense and actually listening to them would be a great place to start as well. How about having people treating these men and women are required to have been in combat themselves? How about making sure they have a full understanding of what combat does? How about making sure they did not gain their knowledge from reading a textbook?
I was talking to a Marine yesterday after he served two tours and had some horror stories to tell. He went to get help from the Marines but was given a zero disability while being medically discharged. He's getting 50% from the VA but the VA doctor wanted to know what was bothering him. He wanted to know where to begin since he had one trauma after another. The VA doctor was oblivious without a clue what combat does or was unable to communicate any understanding leaving this Marine to feel he was wasting his time.
If they really want to save their lives after the enemy couldn't take them, then they need to get serious about looking at the "weapons" they have been using. Otherwise they are still using swords against RPGs.
The VA isn't much better at it.
Study the brains? Is Chiarelli kidding? How many studies have they done since Vietnam Veterans came back and pushed for this to finally be done? How many more generations does it take for the VA to understand what makes humans human?
Kemp is correct and they don't really know how many suicides there are since there are so many claims unapproved. Without an approved claim by the VA, they are not counted. The other factor is families tend to not tie military service to suicides if too much time has gone by. They do not understand the impact on the whole life of a combat veteran, so they don't report it and even if they wanted to, without an approved VA claim, no one would care.
How much should we care? If showing up for a Veterans Day parade is too much for us to do for them, then the odds of us showing up to make sure there are less next Memorial Day are just about zilch.
Suicide Increase Impacts Volunteer Military
Report Says Recruitment Could Be Undercut
By Charley Keyes
CNN Senior National Security Producer
November 2, 2011
"The military must take care of its own," the report says. "Although a goal of no suicides may be unachievable, the increasing number of suicides is unacceptable."
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Military suicides are such a serious and growing problem that they threaten the future of the voluntary military, a new report warns.
The study from the Center for a New American Security says the upswing in suicides during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will undercut recruitment and public confidence.
"America is losing its battle against suicide by veterans and service members," the report says.
"As more troops return from deployment, the risk will only grow."
The report says that suicides have climbed steadily since in recent years.
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How many more years will we read the same type of comments made and still see the suicide rate go up?
This report has been posted all over the web but it took James Dao of the New York Times to go further into the report listing the recommendations.
November 1, 2011, 5:10 PM
Report Hashes Out Battle Plan Against Military Suicides
By JAMES DAO
With military suicides remaining at a stubbornly high level in recent years, there has been no shortage of calls to action. But this week the Center for a New American Security, an influential military policy group in Washington, offered some specific recommendations for what the armed services, Department of Veterans Affairs and Congress could do to bring the rate down.
The report (PDF) by Dr. Margaret C. Harrell and Nancy Berglass acknowledges up top that there is some debate over whether deployment is clearly linked to suicides. The Army’s comprehensive report on suicide last year asserted that deployment may actually reduce the likelihood of suicide. And in an interview, Dr. Harrell, a fellow at the center, said that data indicates that in the Air Force, people who never deploy are more likely to kill themselves than those who do.
But the authors say recent research suggests that there may indeed be an association between deployment and suicide, including data showing that people with traumatic brain injury are 1.5 times more likely to die from suicide than those without it. And they summarize theories among some experts that the “protective qualities” of military service — including having a sense of belonging and of service — can erode after troops return from deployments and are separated from their units, sent to garrison duty or discharged into civilian life.
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Among the steps listed is this
* Reducing the number of suicide prevention programs among National Guard units so there is a more consistent approach to suicide prevention across the nation.
Shocker! The number of suicides has gone up so they want to REDUCE the number of prevention programs? How about they take a look at the fact nothing they have listed will actually address the problem because up until now, they have proven to have failed.
The DOD is still under the delusion the men and women entering into the military are able to "train their brains" to become mentally tough. Everything they have based their programs on leans on this approach. The problem is, they are telling men and women already tough enough to enter into the military they are weak. This leaves them feeling as if it is their fault if they end up with PTSD, thus, mentally weak and didn't train properly.
The last thing National Guards and Reservists need is to have something taken away from them. When they come home they go back into their communities among people without a single clue about where they just left. They need more support programs, not less.
Back to what has been done and the fact it has not worked can be directly tied to repeated failures. Getting care should never depend upon who the man or woman serves under but depend on standard orders. Kicking out PTSD soldiers is not the answer since there have been many reports of them staying in after being helped to heal and they are still serving today.
When the Army released a study showing a 50% increase risk of PTSD with each redeployment they should have geared up to address it considering they have sent troops back over and over again but did nothing to prepare for the increased mental anguish this would cause. They just kept pushing the programs based on Battlemind bullshit but changed the title of the failure to sound better.
They will continue to see increased suicides as long as they keep repeating proven failures.
What works would require the DOD to understand PTSD as well as understand the men and women serving in the military. To this day I have not read a single report addressing the difference between combat PTSD and PTSD in the general population. They do not address the different levels of it and they have yet to come to terms with the fact some turn to self-medicating so they don't have to use prescription drugs that make them feel worse. Some turn to street drugs so they don't have to report they have a problem because of the stigma associated with in by too many commanders still treating them as if they are "weak" minded. It is almost as if some have given up on PTSD veterans instead of discovering how much better they are when they have been treated properly after being battle tested and healed.
If they really want to treat the troops they have to understand them and the simple fact that PTSD is a wound to the soul. The Greeks use the word "trauma" for wound. Not cuts and blood but an emotional wounding. To address it properly it requires spiritual healing under whatever faith they already have and not the one the government wants issued to them. If they claim to be a "spiritual person" with no faith base, then treat them spiritually. If they claim to be Christian but "churchless" then treat them the way Christ did and take care of them as humans. Drop the push to get behinds in the pews of one faith over another. If they are Jewish, treat them under their own faith and the same goes for Muslims.
Use of common sense and actually listening to them would be a great place to start as well. How about having people treating these men and women are required to have been in combat themselves? How about making sure they have a full understanding of what combat does? How about making sure they did not gain their knowledge from reading a textbook?
I was talking to a Marine yesterday after he served two tours and had some horror stories to tell. He went to get help from the Marines but was given a zero disability while being medically discharged. He's getting 50% from the VA but the VA doctor wanted to know what was bothering him. He wanted to know where to begin since he had one trauma after another. The VA doctor was oblivious without a clue what combat does or was unable to communicate any understanding leaving this Marine to feel he was wasting his time.
If they really want to save their lives after the enemy couldn't take them, then they need to get serious about looking at the "weapons" they have been using. Otherwise they are still using swords against RPGs.
The VA isn't much better at it.
Keys to preventing suicide: End the stigma, get better data
By BILL MURPHY JR. AND DEREK TURNER
Published: November 1, 2011
Stigma and a lack of good data are making it harder for the United States to combat the scourge of suicides among military members and veterans, according to a report released this week by the Center for a New American Security.
“I have no idea how many [veterans] die by suicide each day,” Jan Kemp, national mental health program director for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, said at a forum introducing the report. “You’ve seen [the statistic], 18 a day. Honestly I don’t know how correct we are. It’s our best guess right now.”
Trying to reduce the number of suicides in the Army has been “the most difficult challenge in my 40 years in the military,” said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the vice chief of staff of the Army, who also spoke at the forum. “The circumstances surrounding each suicide are as unique as the individuals themselves. That’s what makes this so incredibly tough.”
Chiarelli said the active-duty Army lost 156 soldiers to suicide in 2010, down from 162 in 2009. But he said the hardest part is identifying which 250 or so soldiers might be at serious risk of suicide ahead of time, in part because brain science is still immature.
“The number one systemic recommendation I would make is the study of the brain,” Chiarelli said, noting that fully half of active-duty soldiers who commit suicide are undergoing some kind of mental health treatment.
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Study the brains? Is Chiarelli kidding? How many studies have they done since Vietnam Veterans came back and pushed for this to finally be done? How many more generations does it take for the VA to understand what makes humans human?
Kemp is correct and they don't really know how many suicides there are since there are so many claims unapproved. Without an approved claim by the VA, they are not counted. The other factor is families tend to not tie military service to suicides if too much time has gone by. They do not understand the impact on the whole life of a combat veteran, so they don't report it and even if they wanted to, without an approved VA claim, no one would care.
How much should we care? If showing up for a Veterans Day parade is too much for us to do for them, then the odds of us showing up to make sure there are less next Memorial Day are just about zilch.
Marine deployed to war zones 5 times dies while training
Widow of Marine talks about the fallen hero
WTKR-TV3
11:14 p.m. EDT, November 1, 2011
Christopher Jacobs, a 29-year-old local Marine, had been deployed to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan five times, but it was a vehicle accident during training in California that took his life. Today, his Widow spoke to NewsChannel 3 about the fallen hero.
They were married on the 4th of July and they were committed to each other and life as a proud military family.
Christopher and Brittany Jacobs had a love as American as the stars and stripes the Marine served under.
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WTKR-TV3
11:14 p.m. EDT, November 1, 2011
Christopher Jacobs, a 29-year-old local Marine, had been deployed to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan five times, but it was a vehicle accident during training in California that took his life. Today, his Widow spoke to NewsChannel 3 about the fallen hero.
They were married on the 4th of July and they were committed to each other and life as a proud military family.
Christopher and Brittany Jacobs had a love as American as the stars and stripes the Marine served under.
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Home Edition’ Veterans Day fundraising special
Jewel, Whoopi join ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ Veterans Day fundraising special
By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, November 2, 7:02 AM
LOS ANGELES — “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” will salute military families in a Veterans Day fundraising special featuring stars including Jewel, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams.
The hourlong ABC special, airing 8 p.m. EST on Nov. 11, will focus on issues faced by veterans and highlight the skills they can bring to the workforce and their communities, ABC and the charitable Entertainment Industry Foundation said Wednesday.
Jewel, who is co-hosting the special with Ty Pennington of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” also will sing.
“We want everyone to pitch in,” she said in a statement. “We don’t want the veterans to feel forgotten. Through their struggles, illness, post-traumatic stress disorder and a tough economy, we’re here to let them know they’re still supported.”
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By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, November 2, 7:02 AM
LOS ANGELES — “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” will salute military families in a Veterans Day fundraising special featuring stars including Jewel, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams.
The hourlong ABC special, airing 8 p.m. EST on Nov. 11, will focus on issues faced by veterans and highlight the skills they can bring to the workforce and their communities, ABC and the charitable Entertainment Industry Foundation said Wednesday.
Jewel, who is co-hosting the special with Ty Pennington of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” also will sing.
“We want everyone to pitch in,” she said in a statement. “We don’t want the veterans to feel forgotten. Through their struggles, illness, post-traumatic stress disorder and a tough economy, we’re here to let them know they’re still supported.”
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Every 80 minutes another veteran takes his/her own life
Every 80 minutes another veteran takes his/her own life. Think about that. These people survived bombs and bullets along with every hardship known to man but they couldn't survive being back home. Why?
For all the advances made across the country on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the government has yet to acknowledge that the type of PTSD caused by combat is more complex and deeper than what others have. All PTSD causes are not the same any more than all levels are equal. For servicemen and women they are not just witnesses of traumatic events, they are participants.
While civilians develop PTSD from just one exposure to trauma, they face it on a daily basis while deployed and then have to think about being redeployed all over again right back into the alter-world of combat. The Army released a study several years ago admitting redeployments increased the risk of PTSD by 50% yet there are reports of some doing over ten tours of duty. Didn't they understand what this does to a person?
When Vietnam was going on most did one-one year tour of duty and still we saw high rates of PTSD, incarcerations and suicides. When you start your day in combat and end it back home it is equal to a bad Twilight Zone show but they continue to do it. The last report issued on the percentages of PTSD is a third for Marines, 40% for Army and 50% for National Guards. Over 2 million have been deployed into combat at least once.
One more thing to think about as you read the following is movie time. We go to the movies or rent a video from Netflix that takes two hours. By the time you finish watching your movie and escaping from reality, another veteran has chosen to commit suicide to end the reality they have had to live with since we sent him/her into combat. The movie they have been watching, being haunted by, is what they saw in combat in real life. We play video games and feel the pull to play them over and over again by choice. For them, they would pay any price to be able to get the real life horrors they saw out of their minds.
Kayyem: U.S. veteran dies by suicide every 80 minutes
Editor's Note: Juliette Kayyem is a former Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and a foreign policy columnist for the Boston Globe. She tweets @JulietteKayyem.
By Juliette Kayyem - Special to CNN
October 31st, 2011
This last week, policymakers and presidential candidates debated the wisdom of President Obama's decision to withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of this year. By this weekend, the Pentagon's buildup of resources in the Gulf - a "just in case" strategy - suggested that abandonment (the term used by Obama's critics) was not the right way to describe our efforts.
Whatever the contours of the continuing wars, the real battles still loom in the military. And it isn't just about the budget and what the debt ceiling commission will do in the next few days.
The real battle is over military and veteran suicides. To put this in perspective: Based on the years between 2005 and 2010, service members take their lives at a rate of one every 36 hours; the Veterans Administration now estimates that a veteran dies by suicide every 80 minutes.
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Military suicides "systemic and growing"
During a conference call last night with Point Man Ministries we were talking about what history has to teach us. When Vietnam veterans came home, the numbers of veterans afflicted with PTSD kept going up. Along with those numbers came increases in suicides, divorces and incarcerations. Vietnam veterans should have been a lesson in what needed to be done but today, even as things are better for our veterans, the DOD has not learned from this history.
Telling young men and women they need to "train their brains" or become "mentally tough" is ridiculous and dangerous. Too many of them walk away believing if they end up with PTSD, they didn't train their brains right or were just too weak to take it. If the DOD really wants to stop the suicides, they should take a look at the history of everything they have gotten wrong in the last ten years and stop repeating them!
Telling young men and women they need to "train their brains" or become "mentally tough" is ridiculous and dangerous. Too many of them walk away believing if they end up with PTSD, they didn't train their brains right or were just too weak to take it. If the DOD really wants to stop the suicides, they should take a look at the history of everything they have gotten wrong in the last ten years and stop repeating them!
A war on military suicides
By Juliette Kayyem
Published 09:35 p.m., Monday, October 31, 2011
The Pentagon's efforts to acknowledge and address the problem of military suicides have been successful, by most accounts. Outreach, prevention programs and increased mental health services have likely saved lives. But when Defense Department data, based on the years between 2005 and 2010, showed that service members take their lives at a rate of one every 36 hours, it is difficult to cheer.
Meanwhile, the Veterans Administration now estimates that a veteran dies by suicide every 80 minutes. Veterans represent 1 percent of the population, but 20 percent of all suicides.
The problem is systemic and growing. Tuesday, the Center for a New American Security will issue the report "Losing the Battle: The Challenge of Military Suicide." In a compelling narrative, the authors, Dr. Margaret Harrell and Nancy Berglass, provide workable recommendations to address this national crisis. But perhaps the study's longest-lasting contribution is its explanation of why we should care at all.
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Sgt. Shawn Whitmore dazzled PGA Tour players
WTU golfer Whitmore comes full circle at Walt Disney World
October 31, 2011
By Tim Hipps (IMCOM)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Despite being told twice by doctors that he would never play golf again, Sgt. Shawn Whitmore dazzled PGA Tour players at the 2011 Children's Miracle Network Classic.
Whitmore, a two-time survivor of bouts with mortar rockets and improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, held his own with PGA Tour golfers on the Palm and Magnolia courses at Walt Disney World Resort on Oct. 20-21.
"With the golf and the people and my wife and kids here, this is probably one of the best days and best weeks of my life," Whitmore said after ending two rounds of pro-am play with a birdie putt. "And that's the least I can say about it. It's just the epitome."
Whitmore teamed with pro David Duval on Thursday for a round of 1-under-par 71 on the Magnolia course. With his handicap, Whitmore scored 2-under after finishing with a bogey on No. 18. Davis Love III was the other pro in the group.
Whitmore is "a really good player," Love said. "He made a lot of pars. He talked about his kids, his service, and everything he's done. He's an amazing guy, very humble, and it was great to be out with him.
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October 31, 2011
By Tim Hipps (IMCOM)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Despite being told twice by doctors that he would never play golf again, Sgt. Shawn Whitmore dazzled PGA Tour players at the 2011 Children's Miracle Network Classic.
Whitmore, a two-time survivor of bouts with mortar rockets and improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, held his own with PGA Tour golfers on the Palm and Magnolia courses at Walt Disney World Resort on Oct. 20-21.
"With the golf and the people and my wife and kids here, this is probably one of the best days and best weeks of my life," Whitmore said after ending two rounds of pro-am play with a birdie putt. "And that's the least I can say about it. It's just the epitome."
Whitmore teamed with pro David Duval on Thursday for a round of 1-under-par 71 on the Magnolia course. With his handicap, Whitmore scored 2-under after finishing with a bogey on No. 18. Davis Love III was the other pro in the group.
Whitmore is "a really good player," Love said. "He made a lot of pars. He talked about his kids, his service, and everything he's done. He's an amazing guy, very humble, and it was great to be out with him.
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Fort Wayne Veteran witnessed suicide at VA hospital
Witness saw man shoot self in head
Veteran witness: I knew exactly what the sound was
Updated: Monday, 31 Oct 2011, 2:05 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 31 Oct 2011, 12:18 PM EDT
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Fort Wayne police are looking into a death investigation that happened around 11:00 Monday morning in the parking lot of the Veterans Hospital. The hospital is located at 2121 Lake Avenue.
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Veteran witness: I knew exactly what the sound was
Updated: Monday, 31 Oct 2011, 2:05 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 31 Oct 2011, 12:18 PM EDT
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Fort Wayne police are looking into a death investigation that happened around 11:00 Monday morning in the parking lot of the Veterans Hospital. The hospital is located at 2121 Lake Avenue.
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Fort Bragg soldier dies after being stabbed in North Carolina
Wichita soldier dies after being stabbed in North Carolina
The Associated Press
A statement from the 82nd Airborne says 19-year-old Pfc. Keyonn Parkin of Wichita, Kan., died after being stabbed Saturday night in Greenville.
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Greenville, N.C., police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a paratrooper from Wichita who was stationed at Fort Bragg.
A statement from the 82nd Airborne says 19-year-old Pfc. Keyonn Parkin died after being stabbed Saturday night in Greenville.
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The Associated Press
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A statement from the 82nd Airborne says 19-year-old Pfc. Keyonn Parkin of Wichita, Kan., died after being stabbed Saturday night in Greenville.
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Greenville, N.C., police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a paratrooper from Wichita who was stationed at Fort Bragg.
A statement from the 82nd Airborne says 19-year-old Pfc. Keyonn Parkin died after being stabbed Saturday night in Greenville.
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