During this event. Is 90 minutes. Good afternoon. Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this panel, the long shadow of war, veterans experiences on the home front. Our host and moderator will be joining us momentarily and we thought we would go ahead and get started in the meantime. I think we will go ahead and introduce ourselves one by one as we go along. My name is Kenneth Macleish and i teach at and the university. My research and is a subject of my book making war at fort hood, military uncertainty making war at fort hood life and uncertainty in a military community is about how people experience war and military institutions in their daily lives. Im interested in the way people experience war as something that is normal and routine and highly organized even as it is also incredibly intense, overwhelming and traumatic. My research and writing a mostly based on time that i spent at fort hood, an army base in central texas. It is one of the largest and busiest military installatio
I would also like to caution all of us, the american people, to respect and trust this president , who has put us on another footing in the world. We are seeing much better in the world because of president obama. I do not believe we would have the opportunities we have right now in the Foreign Relations field if it were not for him and the coolness, the thought, and, frankly, the love that he puts into the decisions he makes. The oldest strategy of the enemy is to divide and conquer. We must appear as a unified nation regardless of our personal feelings. We will get over them soon. We have to stand strong as one people or we will fall to these recent horrible enemies that have reared their heads. These people are not playing. And our opinions and the spin doctors and the people doing these things on television, i believe, is harming us as a nation and we need to be more responsible. Thank you. Hey, everybody. No statement again today. Hagel summit of his resignation. It has been caret
Rajiv shah has strict but different systems but they have numerous projects that go around the world, with contractors that are overseeing these things. Its a process that seems to take some time get under control. The idea is to make a number of recommendations on how they can do that. Again, it has been a problem for usaid for some time. Can we speak about the alan gross story, and whether or not the end restrictions efforts are constant. His family have been quite disappointed by the administration. Chris the efforts of the administration. Is it tied up in cuba politics . I think it is tied up in cuban politics. They have not been forthcoming on what these efforts are. That is beyond the diplomatic channels, which we dont have a lot of diplomatic relationships with cuba. His family is not being told what is being done. Final question, going back to what did heard ministration spoke about. From your independent reporting, has a been a turn in the crisis . I think there is has been a
Strong on the field right now, and i hope it regains the healthy once had the health it once had off the field as well. To our panelists, thank you for joining us. To those of you who followed us online and on television, thank you. We bid you good night from washington, d. C. Any of the bigd 12 discussion on College Sports and athletes, will have an encore presentation tonight at 8 00 eastern here on cspan, or watch any time online. Search big 12 at www. Cspan. Org. Next, exploring early attempts to treat posttraumatic stress disorder or ptsd in soldiers. Former ap reporter talks about her own experience with ptsd after a 2006 car bombing in iraq. Speakers include the Huffington Post senior military correspondent and a kernel with the armys health service. Dickinson college in pennsylvania hosted this event. This is about an hour and 23 minutes. Good evening. A student project manager at the clark forum for contemporary issues at Dickinson College. On behalf of the clark forum and Dic
The interviewer looked stricken. Her supervisor quickly looks down at her notes. Shame wild and my throat and eyes. My humiliation was absolute. Even the doctors were laughing at me. Welcome to the office of Veterans Affairs psycho boy. [applause] thank you thank you very much. Again, thank you so much for coming. I really honestly very, very much appreciated. We have some time for questions. Michael and james are going to circulate with the microphone. Any questions . I am happy to take them. About any part of the story, past, present, future. Boy, that first one is always the hardest, isnt it . Someone is going to ask that first question. Thank you. I say that before i hear the question. Been to your story is a very personal one, something that is much larger and yourself. So stepping back from your disempowered act of witnessing, at least you were witnessing, do you have a broader conclusion about how International Organizations can operate more effectively . I have a couple of thin