READERS SHARE THEIR POETRY: “MY RESPONSE TO SGT. LENIHAN’S POEM” Posted on the DCoE blog by Nick F. Stamatis, Army veteran on July 30, 2010 In May the DCoE posted a poem by a now deceased World War II veteran named Sgt. James Lenihan, in which he expressed his torment about killing a German solider during the war. That [...]

As many 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery may be “unmarked, improperly marked or mislabeled” on cemetery maps, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, said Thursday. Cemetery officials had previously estimated just 211 were mislabeled. A Senate subcommittee is holding a hearing to examine…

(CBS) In nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, 5,620 Americans have died. Survivors of these fallen heroes are entitled to a life-insurance payment and the government uses a private company to handle it. What happened to the mother of 24-year-old Ryan Baumann of Great Mills, Maryland when she tried to collect serves [...]

DURHAM, N.C., July 29 (UPI) — Infants who get plenty of affection from their mothers cope better as adults, U.S. researchers suggest. Joanna Maselko of Duke University in Durham, N.C., and colleagues followed up on data collected in the early 1960s in Rhode Island that tracked interactions between pairs of 8-month-old infants and their mothers…

WELLINGTON | Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:24pm EDT (Reuters) – A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived with minor injuries after falling 16-storeys from the balcony of his family’s apartment onto a concrete floor, New Zealand media reported Monday. The New Zealand Herald said the teen-ager fell about 50 meters off the balcony, dropping through…

By SETH ROBSON - Stars and Stripes GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Starting this summer, researchers plan to survey up to 400,000 soldiers as part of the largest study to date of suicide and mental health among military personnel. It’s the next phase in a $50 million, five-year study the Army and the The National Institute of Mental Health [...]

Watch the video here: Gen. Helmick leads discussion on soldier deaths As a battalion commander in the mid-1990s, Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick had to notify a soldier’s family that he had died in a training accident. Helmick said the family had three questions: Where is the body; was he in any pain; and how do you [...]

COL. DAVID LAPAN (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Media Operations): Good morning, all here at the Pentagon, and good evening in Afghanistan. I’d like to welcome to the Pentagon Briefing Room via digital video Major General John Campbell, commanding general for Regional Command East in Afghanistan. General Campbell assumed his duties just over one [...]