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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, and children who wrote the president about gun violence following last month's shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., signs executive orders to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. From left are: Biden Hinna Zeejah, 8, and Nadia Zeejah, Hinna’s mother, Taejah Goode, 10, and Kimberly Graves, Taejah’s mother, Julia Stokes, 11, and Dr. Theophil Stokes, Julia’s father, and Grant Fritz, 8, (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Roundup: PTSD, Obama’s Gun Proposals, ‘Big Money’ in Elections
January 17, 2013 | What Matters Today
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Despite a dwindling pool of bugler players, Navy veteran and long-time musician Boyce Fowler, photographed on Oct. 7, 2008 in Helena, Mont., keeps the art of Taps alive by playing at military burials at Fort Harrison, Mont. Fowler demonstrated his musical skills last week at the state’s largest veteran’s cemetery in Helena, Mont. (AP Photo/The Independent Record, Lisa Kunkel)
The Military Suicide Epidemic
July 27, 2012 | Q&A

Mark Thompson, author of a Time magazine cover story on military suicide, talks about the roots and reasons behind these tragic decisions. Continue reading

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Full Show: What It’s Like to Go to War
July 27, 2012 | Moyers & Company

Bill talks to Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes about what we need to understand about the minds and hearts of our modern warriors. Continue reading

In this Sept. 29, 2009 file photo, U.S. Marines fill out research consent forms before taking psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. in a program testing hundreds of Marines and soldiers before they ship out to search for clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder. The U.S. Institute of Medicine recommended on Friday, July 13, 2012 that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan be screened for post-traumatic stress disorder at least once a year and that federal agencies conduct more research to determine how well the various treatments for PTSD are working. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Resources for Military Service Members
July 27, 2012

Find free online and phone resources for active-duty service members and veterans. Continue reading

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Karl Marlantes on the Mindset of a Modern Warrior
July 27, 2012

Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes shares how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him. Continue reading

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Military Suicides Surge
July 24, 2012 | Smart Charts
More troops took their own lives in the first half of this year than were killed in combat in Afghanistan.
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Preview: What It’s Like to Go to War
July 24, 2012

In a preview of this weekend’s broadcast, Vietnam veteran and Rhodes Scholar Karl Marlantes talks about his attempts to make sense of war. Continue reading

In this picture taken Aug. 29, 2011 a US soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan is carried out of the bus at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. (AP /Michael Probst)
At a Military Hospital, Warriors Are Not the Only Wounded
May 15, 2012 | On Democracy

Inside a writers’ workshop for hospital staff at Germany’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Continue reading

Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz, Chief U.S. Army Reserve reenlists 60 soldiers at the U.S. Army Reserve National Capitol Reenlistment ceremony today, April 23, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (PRNewsFoto/U.S. Army Reserve)
Many Soldiers Familiar with Stresses that Plagued Robert Bales
March 19, 2012 | Connecting the Dots

Many of the stresses plaguing the Army sergeant accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians are familiar to America’s armed forces. Continue reading