Combat Generation: Bloodless Trauma: Miilitary reckons with the mental wounds of war

Click Here to Read: Combat Generation: Bloodless Trauma: Miilitary reckons with the mental wounds of war by Greg Jaffe in The Washington Post on July 18, 2010.   Also included on this page are several videos by Whitney Shefte.

Staff Sgt. James Ownbey, a Marine who served in Iraq as an explosive ordnance disposal technician in 2007, and two other deployments, now suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and numerous physical ailments. Ownbey and his wife, Sandy, recently bought a home in Hedgesville, W.Va., and he often commutes with her more than two hours each way to attend appointments at the Natinal Naval Hospital in Bethesda.

Russian spies: children face trauma, psychologists warn

Click Here to Read:   Russian spies: children face trauma, psychologists warn. Fate of families remains uncertain as children are forced to choose between their homes and their parents  byEwen MacAskill in Washington on the guardian.co.uk website   July 9, 2010.

Waldo Mariscal (l) and his half-brother Juan Lazaro Jr, the sons of Russian spy Vicky Pelaez, leave their home in Yonkers, New York. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP