Would love to catch up with everyone here, as well as invite you over (for just a very brief smidgen of an interlude :o) to Firedoglake.com at 5 pm ET.
The second half of today's Sunday Book Salon double-header is set to begin (Laura Flanders was a guest earlier this afternoon). For my interview with Taylor Marsh, we'll be talking about how our troops and military families are doing -- and what more the rest of us can do to help them.
Pics of this weekend's NYC Moving a Nation to Care signing at Flickr.
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You may remember Taylor from last summer's Save 1-800-SUICIDE effort [ diaries 1| 2 | 3 ].
She is an incredible force, and one of so many who have taken me under their wings and boosted the issue that I've been working on -- the reintegration of our troops dealing issues such as PTSD. The FDL invitation is just the very latest of a long line of kindnesses that have flowed my way from this lovely lady.
From TaylorMarsh.com:
[Moving a Nation to Care] is an amazing journey through stories of veterans and what the cost of war does to their lives and the lives of their families. I'm proud to host this event on Sunday. Please make some time in your schedule to spend time with Ilona. It will be an extraordinary discussion on PTSD, which I've talked about many times before.
It used to be called "battle fatigue." In fact, my uncle, who flew planes in WWII, ended up in a hospital a broken man. Flying mission after mission simply destroyed him. I'll never forget seeing him there with my mother when I was a very little girl. The once vibrant dandy of a man was no longer anywhere to be seen.
Ilona Meagher has captured the story of "battle fatigue," now called PTSD in her new book. Thanks to Jane Hamsher for having us in so we all could talk about Ilona's book and the important issues of PTSD, which some of us know so well.
It's long past time that we brought this soldier's disease out into the light. It could help save some lives and the heartbreak of family members who are blindsided by what the Iraq war, with its continual redeployments, as well as the lack of planning and even equipment, has wrought.
Join us at FDL in a few minutes, after 5 pm ET.