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Suicide and brain trauma: At least they’re paying attention.

Three headlines this week that go well together: Pentagon To Focus on Brain Trauma and Soldier’s Suicides at Historic High – “15 month deployments may play a role in the latter,” they say. (You think?)

I’ve little time this morning to comment on either, but luckily we have the incomparable Michael Jernigan’s commentary on The Hurt Locker,  which brings us back to our earlier discussion about writing about war. I’ll check in later in the day with a very different commentary on The Hurt Locker.

Journalist, author, editor, educator: spent 10 years working at CCCO/The GI Rights Hotline, which is why she's now working on a book about soldiers who dissent for University of California Press.
 
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