Half of Vets Suffering Brain and Mind Injuries Go Untreated, But Pentagon Pretends Nothing's Going on  By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted April 29, 2008.
An activist travels to the DoD's annual suicide prevention conference, only to find the military brass living in a parallel universe.

Sending a Son off to War: a Mother's Anguish   by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted April 21, 2008.
"How will I survive the wait and the not-knowing, and will I survive at all if my worst fears are realized?"

Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans "Prisoners of War"   by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted March 26, 2008.  There are at least 60,000 of them, but they're not on the DoD's list of soldiers missing in action.

Winter Soldier: America Must Hear These Iraq Vets' Stories   by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted March 15, 2008.

War Trauma Is an Admission of Weakness in 'Macho' Army Culture  by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted March 14, 2008.

Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War by Penny Coleman from Alternet, posted January 10, 2008

Activist Tells Congress About Suicide Epidemic Among Vets by Penny Coleman from Alternet, posted January 2, 2008

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week  by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted November 26, 2007 [Hear this editorial read by  KPFK's Blaise Fontaine]
   
Casualties on the Home Front:  The Epidemic of Vet Suicides by Penny Coleman, The Beacon Broadside. Posted November 10, 2007.
Veterans' Suicides: a Hidden Cost of Bush's Wars  by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted November 11, 2007.
Note:  These two Veterans Day 2007 articles listed above are published on two sites under different names, but the content is the same.

Pentagon Denies Increase in Troops' Suicides a Result of War  by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted August 28, 2007.
This article is also cited in a post to  Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"   Posted August 28, 2007

War Psychiatry and Iraq Atrocities: How Killing Becomes a Reflex  by Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted August 22, 2007.

AlterNet: Reflections of a Vietnam War Widow: It Doesn't End When They Come Home  (Posted on AlterNet.org by Penny Coleman  [June 25, 2007])
The June 25 Alternet: article is also cited in the Department of Defense (DoD) Deployment Health Clinical Center (DHCC) Newsletter dated 6/26/2007

The casualties continue to mount after they come home ... (Posted on AlterNet.org  [Memorial Day, May 28, 2007])  

Vets' suicides: casualties that go uncounted and another hidden cost of war (Posted on AlterNet.org by Joshua Holland  [Valentines Day, February 14, 2007])
Suicides casualties of war, too (Albany Times Union [May 28, 2006] and Buffalo News [May 30, 2006])

Suicides Must Be Counted As Part Of The Cost Of War (The Capital Times  [May 6, 2006])

Library Journal talks to Penny Coleman

Ilona's Interview with Penny Coleman

Audio:
KPFK's Online Audio Archives website*, Dec 09, 2007 "World Focus:  Returning Veteran Suicide"   by Blaise Fontaine  [Play from KPFK archive]  [Download from KPFK archive]  [from Flashbackhome website] 61:04 minutes audio 14.3 Mb MP3 format
* if you go to KPFK archive, scroll down the list of "Shows" to Dec 09 World Focus and select "Play" or "Download" 

Last updated: June 2, 2008