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This year marks the 40th anniversary of Rambo (First Blood) one of the greatest action adventure movies of all time, but more than that, the quintessential film about PTSD and its traumatic effects on combat veterans. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle and Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and the screenplay was written by Michael Kozoll & William Sackheim and Sylvester Stallone. With the Ghosts of Vietnam haunting America in 1982, the film opens with John Rambo walking down a lonely road in the Pacific...

Marina Hofman, Ph.D., is a homeschool mom to a sweet 3-year-old daughter, Willow, and shares with us how the inspiring examples of mothers in the Bible are models of courage and faith amid opposition and teach us about faith, life, and parenting. She is also a Bible professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University, award-winning author of Women In The Bible Small Group Bible Study, and President of Moms for America’s Palm Beach County chapter. JF: Tell us about the miracle of your daughter, Willow?

Anthony Longo, Founder, and CEO of Warriors Choice Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, never wanted the mission to be about him. The Schenectady, New York native came from humble beginnings before joining the Marine Corps in 2004 and serving two combat deployments in Fallujah, Iraq, through 2008 as a radio operator for the 2nd Battalion 6th Marine Echo Company. After his honorable discharge, Anthony relocated to Florida to pursue a career in fire rescue as a firefighter paramedic. He was the leader of his Fire Academy class in Coral Springs, but in his words, “I was itching to do something...

Hilaria Baldwin has claimed husband Alec Baldwin is suffering from PTSD and has been battling it for a 'long time'. 'My husband is suffering from PTSD right now,' Hilaria, 37, said on Thursday, adding that it has been something he's dealt with long before the Rust shooting. 'It's something that is not just from what happened recently but he's been suffering from this for a very, very, very long time...' The post on Hilaria's Instagram Stories site comes as Alec shared an open letter from members of the Rust film crew and cast members on Instagram, hitting back at claims...

The judge presiding over the custody case of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sean Parnell on Monday awarded primary custody of his three children to his estranged wife. Laurie Snell and Parnell separated in 2018. They have three children, ages 12, 11 and 8. During her testimony on the first day of the Butler County custody trial on Nov. 1, Snell alleged that Parnell had physically abused both her and her children. During his testimony the next week, Parnell denied he’d ever struck anyone in his family. A court docket in the case showed Senior Judge James Arner awarded primary physical...

As Veterans’ Day arrives, it is important for those who have never served to take a moment to understand the solitary world of a vet. Millions of vets are and have been successful in all endeavors. They are doctors, lawyers, business people and a thousand other professions. Not all have PTSD; not all are the troubled, brooding, street corner homeless guy, although they exist and need help desperately. No matter how successful a vet might be materially, more often than not, vets are often alone, mentally and spiritually each day and for the rest of their lives. Vets’ stories are...

Hilaria Baldwin posted images of husband Alec Baldwin and her young children in Halloween costumes Sunday following a recent on-set shooting in New Mexico in which he was involved that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead. "Parenting through this has been an intense experience, to say the least," Hilaria Baldwin wrote along with a videos and pictures of her husband and children in costumes. "Today, we rallied to give them a holiday. Last min costumes…a little hodge-podge…but they were so happy and that warmed my mama heart." Hilaria went on to post emojis that indicated her children give them love. She...

Hilaria Baldwin made an emotional post on Instagram, showing her hand intertwined with husband Alec Baldwins and says she has fears he will develop PTSD after he accidentally shot dead cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of 'Rust'. Hilaria showed her support for her actor husband as she stood by his side. It was the first time since the fatal accident that the Baldwins spoke to the press. She later shared a heartfelt post on Instagram: 'I love you and I'm here,' she captioned a picture of her and her husband's intertwined hands. Hilaria said she drove her family to...

Hilaria Baldwin bundled her six children in her car and set off without a destination in mind, once she heard her husband Alec had accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust.” “I didn’t know where I was going, I just drove,” Baldwin told The Post Saturday during an exclusive interview in Vermont. “I just drove around and around and around with my kids.” The family was seen leaving their Greenwich Village home Oct. 22, a day after the tragic shooting. Hilaria tells said she drove for an entire day in search of somewhere...

Decades before Dr. Anthony Fauci led the US response to COVID-19, he shepherded the country through a different epidemic: the HIV/AIDS crisis. In 1981, when Fauci was head of a laboratory at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, researchers discovered that a growing group of Americans — predominantly young, gay men — were dying of cancers and infections. Scientists thought a virus might have been the root cause, but it wasn't until 1984 that researchers discovered that HIV leads to a host of life-threatening illnesses now known as AIDS. Doctors were watching helplessly as patients rapidly deteriorated. Fauci...

In a new documentary, Dr. Anthony Fauci reveals he has PTSD from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. [cut] At one moment in the documentary, Fauci cries when remembering an AIDS patient who lost his vision from an infection that destroyed his retina. The man was always upbeat, Fauci says, and would often comment on Fauci's smile. "One day, we walked in in the morning and I walked up to the desk and he said, 'Who's there?' And it was clear that he had gone completely blind," Fauci says. When the an interviewer asks why Fauci is so affected by the memory, he...

His name is Muhamnad al-Kurd.Mohammed el-Kurd becomes the Palestine Correspondent for The Nation Jerusalem Post Staff, September 17, 2021 Mohammed el-Kurd and his twin sister, Muna, are well-known Palestinian activists. El-Kurd has also expressed anti-US sentiments, calling the US military a "murderous terrorist organization" and US President Joe Biden a "successful was criminal." In a separate tweet, Mohammed expressed his hope that US troops' "PTSD never heal". ____ Facebook's policy inconsistency puts Israelis at risk. Emily Echrader, JPost, June 28, 2021 Muna El Kurd, the Sheikh Jarrah activist who’s made international headlines with her brother, had at least five...

Dr Anthony Fauci has revealed he is making notes for his memoir, but insisted that he was fully focused on combating the COVID-19 pandemic despite a new documentary being made of his work. Fauci, the nation's top public health official, who has advised seven presidents, told The New York Times that he had no time to actually sit and write his memoir. The book is not imminent: As a federal official, he will be barred from entering discussions about publishing his memoirs until he quits. He told the paper he is focused on 'ending this pandemic, you know, putting it...

Nurse Chris Prott's knees jump, his heart races, his mouth goes dry and his mind floods with dark memories when he talks about working in the Milwaukee VA Medical Center's intensive care unit (ICU) during pandemic surges. Prott shares a struggle common to many of the military veterans for whom he has cared for years: symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prott was among a half dozen ICU staffers who told Reuters of symptoms such as waking from nightmares bathed in sweat; flashbacks to dying patients during the pandemic's fear-filled early days; flaring anger; and panic at the sound of...

The Code 9 Project, preventing PTSD and suicide during PTSD awareness monthJune is PTSD awareness month. A national nonprofit organization is educating and training professional front-line workers, veterans and their families on preventing PTSD and suicide. "The wear and tear is real, and if they aren't receiving the training and the resources to prevent a breakdown and injury like PTSD or aren't receiving the resources and the support, things like suicide happen. And that's just not OK with our organization," said Brandielee Baker, founder and president of The Code 9 Project. Advertisement Brandielee Baker is a former first responder, PTSD...

MDMA may mostly be known as an illicit party drug, but this psychoactive chemical looks to offer therapeutic applications far removed from the highs of the rave scene. In fact, MDMA-assisted therapy could soon become a legal and approved way to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the United States. In the first phase III clinical trial for any psychedelic-assisted therapy, MDMA has shown more potential to help treat PTSD with therapy than possibly any other medicine we've got. After just three sessions, patients who were given MDMA during therapy were 35 percent less likely to meet the diagnosis for...

Have you noticed that the corporate media has been repeatedly using the word “violent” to describe what the summer of 2021 is going to be like? Many Americans believed that once Joe Biden was in the White House that all of the civil unrest that we have been witnessing would magically disappear and that violent crime rates would go back to normal. Of course neither of those things has happened. We continue to see civil unrest erupt in major U.S. cities such as Portland, and murder rates are even higher in 2021 than they were in 2020. This is a...

A law enforcement trainer who tells cops 'the best sex happens after you've killed someone' has been canceled from speaking at session for Michigan police suffering from PTSD. Dave Grossman, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who claims to have trained law enforcement officers in all 50 states, faced a stinging backlash after a video clip of his controversial training sessions - dubbed killology seminars - went viral recently. In the clip, taken at a police training session, Grossman says: 'Killing is just not that big a deal.' He goes on to say that cops can experience 'the best sex' after...

A college student with a desire to alleviate his father's suffering has invented an app that helps people with PTSD stop having night terrors.Tyler Skluzacek's father, Patrick, a US Army Commander with PTSD, was suffering from debilitating night terrors.Patrick served in Iraq in 2007 and at night his dreams took him back to Fallujah. He could only fall asleep with the help of alcohol and pills -- and his life slowly fell apart."[I] pretty much lost everything," he told NPR, fighting back tears. "My house, everything, my job, everything went."Tyler was a senior at Macalester College when he entered a...

A recently revealed email from a business associate of Hunter Biden's reveals plans of a potential deal between the two of them and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...The email in question is from well-known Hunter business associate Devon Archer to a certain Jason Galanis...."This is great. I will have some edits shortly. One big [edit] is that Zuckerberg is investing in the Veterans vertical. We'll own 50% of the business at BTC Global holdco we're investing in but he's going to own 50% of the vertical PTSD in his and his partners for profit foundation."...Galanis responds, "Facebook zuckerberg [sic]???" Archer emails...