It’s been eight years since America sent warriors to Afghanistan, and soon it will be eight years since men and women in our all-volunteer military have served in Iraq — some of them for two, three or four tours of duty.
The price those men and women have paid is unimaginably high — the wounds that [...]
This week, as President Obama considers the country’s next move in Afghanistan, we take a look a the toll the long conflict has taken on Massachusetts service members and their families. Send in your thoughts and comments here, and join us this Friday at 1.
Also in the hour, GOP senate candidates Scott [...]
It’s been an extraordinary week for me and for us at Radio Boston. We’ve been collecting stories about remembrance, sacrifice and, the wounds of war carried by a very few in a country that seems largely untouched and uninvolved in that war seemingly so far away. If you want to get a [...]
This week Radio Boston is going on location. We broadcast from Athol’s Memorial Town Hall.
Residents from the town of Orange participate in the tolling of the town bell for 4,000 seconds to commemorate Americans killed in Iraq.
We’re talking with veterans from north central Massachusetts about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan and what they [...]
This Friday, David Boeri talks with the Boston Globe’s Charles Sennott who has been following the Marines’ 1st Battalion, 25th Regiment from the field in Iraq to their homecoming in Massachusetts.
Photo Credits: Bill Greene, Boston Globe
I’ve been staggered this week by stories of veterans and PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
An Army Advisory Team reports that 20 percent of soldiers in Iraq are showing acute stress, anxiety and depression, 30 percent in the case of those with more experience of combat.
When I asked one veteran what it was like to come [...]
It’s almost Veterans Day 2007 and almost five years since the start of the Iraq war. 30,000 Massachusetts military service members are back from the war, but many are fighting something else at home: mental illness. We’ll talk with some veterans, doctors and a reporter who’s been covering the war from overseas and here at [...]
