On the Run

By Special Guest Blogger L. Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs I know what it’s like to train, to dig deep, to push yourself harder than you’ve ever pushed before. I’ve served in Iraq. I’ve come back from devastating injuries. I’ve run for office. [...]

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PTSD in GA — the abbreviated version

Thanks to chats and texts, abbreviations now abound in our common speech. This is nothing new for members of the military community; they speak their own subset of English that raises ? from most of the outside world. But a couple of  military-related truncations are now part of the popular consciousness, thanks to the wars [...]

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