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Articles tagged: veterans

by Liz Moskowitz

Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

In Bonham, veterans struggling with PTSD can experience equine therapy.

Tue, Oct 29, 2019 |

I visited the Broken Wheel Ranch Project in the North Texas town of Bonham, where veterans struggling with PTSD can experience equine therapy. Mel Mincey, a for...Read More

by Ruben Paquian

Reformers Hopeful the 2019 Legislature will Expand Texas’ Medical Marijuana Law

Activists are mapping a path to end arrests for possession and broaden the state's medical marijuana program ahead of the next legislative session.

Fri, Aug 31, 2018 |

Shortly after returning to Washington state in 2007 from a 16-month deployment in Afghanistan, retired U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant April Martinez began suffer...Read More

Fringe Factor: CJ Grisham and the Paranoid Heart of Texas’ Gun Rights Movement

After video of Grisham getting slammed against a police car went viral in 2013, he took the lead in Texas’ gun deregulation movement. Now, he’s aiming for constitutional carry.

Mon, Jul 2, 2018 |

With the far right ascendant in Texas politics, once-marginal ideas and people have found a place in the political mainstream. Fringe Factor is an introduction ...Read More

by Jake Whitney

Combating Moral Injury

For some veterans, guilt and shame can linger years after combat — and it’s not PTSD.

Fri, Oct 14, 2016 |

Aaron Throckmorton decided to join the military the day the Twin Towers fell. A standout high school linebacker at Midland Lee (of Friday Night Lights fame), Th...Read More

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The Afghanistan Addiction

Former Navy medic Brandon Caro's new novel provides a look into what it’s like to be a non-combatant in a conflict in which there’s no such thing.

Wed, Jan 20, 2016 |

Caro is far from self-indulgent here; the disorientation he engenders in the reader is carefully orchestrated, and he rises to a challenge O’Brien lays out in...Read More

by Spike Johnson

Eye On Texas: Spike Johnson Photographs Houston’s Homeless Veterans

Tue, Aug 26, 2014 |

Photographer Spike Johnson chronicles the lives of Houston's homeless veterans in his series, "Friends in Low Places." ...Read More

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