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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Moving a Nation to Care: Latest News

Latest news on Ilona Meagher's Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops.

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"The first shamans earned their keep in primitave societies by providing explanations and rituals that enabled man to deal with his environment and his personal anguish. Early man, no less than we, dealt with forces that he could not understand or control, and he attempted to come to grips with his vulnerablity by trying to bring order to his universe." -- Richard Gabriel in No More Heroes

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"After wars' end, soldiers once again become civilians and return to their families to try to pick up where they left off. It is this process of readjustment that has more often than not been ignored by society. -- Major Robert H. Stretch, Ph.D in Textbook of Military Medicine: Vol. 6 Combat Stress

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Ilona's events are listed in green and found here.

October 22-November 15, 2009 in Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Art Museum hosts War, Art, & the Veteran, a display of artworks created by combat veterans.

November 5-11, 2009 in DeKalb, IL - Northern Illinois University Veterans Club hosts a number of Veterans Day events, including its first Veterans Club Community Roundtable and its own Vet Art Project. See Ilona's events and facebook events page for more.

November 11, 2009 Nationwide - Veterans Day 2009, selection of events and promotions.

November 25, 2009 in Chicago, IL - Vet Art Project program at the Chicago Cultural Center. See schedule [pdf] for more.

December 9, 2009 in Chicago, IL - Vet Art Project program at the Chicago Cultural Center. See schedule [pdf] for more.

December 6-5, 2009 in Warwick, UK - MindGrad 2009 Warwick Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind. Call for papers deadline: Sept. 1 | Registration.

Spring, 2010 in Bethesda, MD - Uniformed Services University 5th Annual Amygdala, Stress and PTSD Conference, details TBA.

July 10-15, 2010 in Honolulu, HI - International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD).

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"Action is good for the soul
and the goal."

Ilona Meagher is an independent Illinois-based online writer, new media developer and author of Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops.

After reading of a soldier's lost battle with combat stress/PTSD in 2005, she decided to pursue the then under-reported topic.

It would change her life.

Select Vod/Podcasts

NotAlone.com featured interview, 11/12/09
Columbia Journalism School's Uptown Radio on the conviction of U.S. soldier Stephen Green for the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl, 5/8/09 [listen | transcript]
House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on Stopping Suicide: Mental Health Challenges Within the Department of Veterans Affairs, 12/12/07. [view | read Ilona Meagher's testimony]
WLBK-1360 AM Suicide Prevention Show, 11/25/07
MPR Midmorning, 11/05/07
NECN News Day Live, 10/16/07
Second Life, "Virtually Speaking with Jimbo Hoyer," 09/27/07
Chicago CAN-TV Issue Forum with Frank Avila, ePluribus Media members (including Ilona) discuss citizen journalism, 08/03/07
TV3-Phoenix Beyond the Battlefield segment on Good Evening Arizona, Ilona included in short clip, 07/23/07.
TVW Seattle's University Bookstore signing, 07/12/07 [listen]
KWMU/NPR-90.7 FM St. Louis on the Air, 06/12/07
Air America Radio-Phoenix The Jeff Farias Show, 06/06/07
Moe's Books, 'Moving a Nation to Care' book signing presentation, 06/05/07 [Part 1 | 2]
WUML-91.5 FM Thinking Out Loud book tour kickoff, 05/10/07
Dennis Stout's About Face, discussion on PTSD, 12/16/06
Rabble Radio, Wayne Macphail interview on ePMedia and citizen journalism, 07/24/06
Zack Bazzi (The War Tapes) is interviewed by Ilona, 06/19/06
ePluribus Media, interview on Ilona's PTSD work, 4/14/06

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