compassion, mental health, ptsd, suicide, support, veterans

A Story of Tragedy: What Some Soldiers Face When Returning Home

This is a story of one of the soldiers who came home to find things are just not the same as they use to be. We often find it easy to love people who look good. However, we also often don’t like people who can be an inconvenience to us. The real war for soldiers begins when ...

Troy Oakes

Soldier sitting with hands clasped. together sitting on sofa.

Study Shows Benefits to Veterans With PTSD Who Have Service Dogs

A new study shows how veterans with PTSD may benefit physiologically from using service dogs. This study, led by the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, is the first published research to use a physiological marker to define the biobehavioral effects of service dogs on veterans with PTSD. The findings were published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, and they ...

Troy Oakes

Kerri Rodriguez and Maggie O'haire.

ANZAC Day in Melbourne

April 25 is ANZAC Day in Australia. ANZAC stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps. War was declared between England and Germany on August 4, 1914. When World War I started, Australia promised 20,000 men to aid England. At the time, Australia’s opposition leader Andrew Fisher announced that: “Our last man and our last shilling in any ...

Trisha Haddock