A post from Eddie's journal

New Links

I know that I can do not have the ability nor the skills/tools to help heal my brothers/sisters in arms but I do know that I can create the environment for healing to begin. There are others who are much more capable to do what I cannot and so I give them my support and my thanks. One of those is Eddie.

Eddie Black is doing some great work in regards to educating and helping soldiers with PTSD. His passion and dedication are definitely an inspiration. Here is his recent slide show:

http://www.slideshare.net/eddiecoyote/veterans-and-ptsd

as well as his own website about the concepts of what it is to be a Warrior, past and present:

http://warriormyth.blogspot.com

Links

Wounded Warrior Project: http://sr.woundedwarriorproject.org

Soldier Ride: http://sr.woundedwarriorproject.org/content/view/19/40/

www.whatadifference.org

This site is here for people living with mental illness—and their friends. You'll find tools to help in the recovery process, and you can also learn about the different kinds of mental illnesses, read real-life stories about support and recovery, and interact with the video to see how friends can make all the difference.

More links from friends

I posted my website on FaceBook for my friends and lovely SK gave me another link to put up: http://www.operationhomefront.net/

Wendy told me to check out Common Ground in New York. This is one place I definitely want to go visit myself and see first hand the work they are doing: www.commonground.org

While looking through that site I found Change.org which may help when this thing is really up and running. It may also be a great networking resource.

I will randomly be going through all the other links I have posted and write my own review of them. If anyone has been to any of these sites and would like to share their opinion of them, whether the information was helpful or not helpful, whether you have used the organization and if they were helpful or not, etc I would LOVE your input.

I have not uploaded a list of literature nor any of the multitude of YouTube videos out there. Please suggest something you think would be beneficial.

I also heard that The Real World has a Vet on this season. As I only get the channels you get with an antenna I would appreciate anyone's review or thoughts on how that is going.