"The 24 Star Letter" - WashPo Cartoon Stirs the Joints Chiefs  Download JointChiefsRespond.pdf   Donna Shalala on KUSI-TV 6 min - May 28, 2007 - the "wounded warriors" get the care they need. Donna Shalala, the co-chair of the Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors. Watch video here Watch video - Related videos Faces of Freedom Book Raises Money for Wounded Veterans 3 min - Jun 14, 2007  professional writers and editors, and ALL proceeds from book sales are going to Wounded Warrior Project and Fisher House. Of the book, Gen. Colin Powell says Watch video here  Watch video - Related videos This emotionally charged half-hour documentary explores the debilitating condition of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  »Watch the Recon Video Now     Williams signed autographs and posed  for pictures at the wounded Marines barracks at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C. A wounded warrior   By Tim Maxwell I AM A MARINE  a lieutenant colonel. I know about war. I have studied it for more than 20 years. I have been deployed overseas six times. Three times since 9/11. Recently, I learned all about another part of war. I was badly wounded during a mortar attack in Iraq in October 2004. It is a traumatic brain injury. My left elbow also was busted. My left cheek has metal in it. It was tough to eat for awhile. It's hard to see. Read More Morning Edition, December 12, 2005 · As more wounded Marines return from Iraq, North Carolina's Camp Lejeune sets up a barracks fitted with ramps and grab bars... giving the injured a chance to stay in the flow of military life as they recuperate. Rusty Jacobs of North Carolina Public Radio reports. Headquarters - Wounded Warrior Project  Wounded Warriors - Sons and Daughters of America Wounded Warrior Sposes' Support Group reaches out to family members Wounded service members learn to water ski, scuba, sail in New York - Marine Corps USO of North Carolina   Helping hand: Becky Klepper shows user-friendly clothing to some of the wounded Marines at Camp Lejeune. The group, Sew Much Comfort, creates specially designed clothes that are easily accessible and inconspicuous ? with the help of some carefully concealed Velcro. MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (March 2, 2006) -- To anyone who has lost a loved one or has experienced the wounds of war I extend my deepest sympathy. Casualties of war are not only those lost, but also those left behind. For the departed, the family feels the loss most. For the wounded, it is both the Marine and those who love them who experience the void of a past life free from disabilities. But, in each case the sacrifice of the Marine was freely given, an outward sign of his or her faithful sense of duty to a cause larger than themselves, committed the day they proudly held up their hand and took their oath.? - Shannon Maxwell, wife of Lt.Col. Tim Maxwell, who while the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit operations officer, sustained a traumatic brain injury from mortar fire shrapnel in Kalsu, Iraq.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. ? Lt. Col. Timothy Maxwell prided himself on being a hard-core Marine, a square-jawed, straight-talking devil dog who demanded the utmost of his grunts.

He was a tough son of a gun on his third tour in Iraq who thought nothing could rattle him. Then mortar shrapnel pierced his brain.

The hard-charging officer from Dallas found himself in an empty hospital room one morning far from the battlefield, crying tears of rage and fear.

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• "Suddenly, when you're wounded, you know nothing. There is the confusion and the pills and feeling isolated from your squad," said the 41-year-old Col. Maxwell, former operations officer for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. "I was alone," he said, and that tormented him most of all.    read more
  

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