From the beginning of this experiment in the new media economy, we’ve said that one day, we’d like to add a monthly magazine to the Dish. Today, we’re launching a prototype, and we’re calling it Deep Dish. It’s a skeletal first issue, but we hope it sketches the kind of things we want to publish … Continue reading Introducing Deep Dish
Iraq War veteran and PTSD survivor Mikey Piro is blogging again. Part of a recent entry: I am pretty frank about seeing my therapist. When I tell people (read my civilian coworkers) I am a Veteran who served in Iraq and I sought the help of therapists upon returning home, I usually get one of … Continue reading There Is No Shame In Therapy
From a recent post on Mikey Piro’s blog, PTSD Survivor Daily, which the Dish profiled here: Twelve years into combat and the feeling I get is that, worse than being judged, we are forgotten. We are killing ourselves at a rate faster than we died in combat and very few people stop to notice. A … Continue reading Team Survivor
A reader responds to our profile of PTSD advocate Mikey Piro: I have three family members who served in active duty in my generation’s wars over the past 11 years. None were significantly injured in combat, but they are not the men who left us. One we thought was lost, but has regained semi-independence through the … Continue reading The Other One Percent: Our Vets, Ctd
Mikey Piro, a two-time veteran of Iraq diagnosed with PTSD in 2006, has an excellent little blog called PTSD Survivor Daily through which he processes his post-war struggles. I met him at West Point and chatted late into the night. We hope to be launching a podcast soon, and Mikey will be one of my first guests. … Continue reading The Other One Percent: Our Vets
Below are our mosts marking the ten year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Mar 3, 2013 @ 9:27pm Past And Present: March 3, 2003 This month, the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, I’ve decided to re-publish some of my posts from March 2003. Call it masochism or basic journalistic … Continue reading The Iraq Invasion: Ten Years Later
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