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Healing Combat Trauma: RIP Travis N. Twiggs, USMC PTSD Sufferer
Travis Twiggs RIP Very sad just breaking news in the USMC Staff Sergeant Travis N. Twiggs story we blogged about yesterday. See link for details. It sounds like authorities who were searching for Twiggs and his brother, ...

Healing Combat Trauma: Travis Twiggs' Suicide - Only Questions Remain
About USMC SSgt. Travis N. Twiggs' recent apparent suicide in Arizona with his brother, Will Twiggs, so little is known that really only questions remain. Don't look to the way-less-than-mediocre coverage of his death by the national ...

Journalism: an Underappreciated Art [1]
He is dealing with subject matter of great weight; not only is his primary focus an Iraq war veteran, Travis Twiggs, but this particular veteran suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and commits suicide before the article ...

Marine who died after car chase wrote of war stress
Travis Twiggs, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1993 and held the combat action ribbon, wrote about his efforts to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder in the January issue of the Marine Corps Gazette. ...

The war within
The New Yorker Article weaves the story of decorated Staff Sergeant Travis Twiggs with commentary on the effects of PTSD and the current support for US veterans who have been traumatised by their experiences. ...

Links for 2008-09-30 [del.icio.us]
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the last tour- a decorated marine's war within
64), william finnegan tells the story of travis twiggs, a decorated combat veteran with five tours of duty in afghanistan and iraq who, after writing about his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder and becoming a marine corps ...

The Last Tour
[Park Ranger] Ken Phillips got a photograph of Travis Twiggs. “I've made a lot of wanted posters,” he said. “But this was the first time I had to crop out the President.” The bulletins that went out over the wires gave both Travis and ...

Marine's Death Shows Tragic Results Of Disorder
Travis Twiggs, a Marine veteran of five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, drove his car over the roadside curb and stopped at the rim of the Grand Canyon. His older brother, Will, was in the passenger seat. Spent Budweiser cans and an ...

Marine's Death Shows Tragic Results Of Disorder
1 By Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic Travis Twiggs, a Marine veteran of five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, drove his car over the roadside curb and stopped at the rim of the Grand Canyon. His older brother, Will, ...