Andrea Plate Writes — I just concluded a three-year run teaching “Gender and the Military” at a major Southern California university. For three years, I thought I knew what I was talking about. Fifteen years as a licensed clinical social worker at the Department of Veterans Affairs; author of ‘Madness’,…
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ANDREA PLATE WRITES – Let us all breathe a sigh of relief. Tuesday’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings (July 30) into the matter of Air Force General John Early Hyten’s fitness to serve as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was not a #MeToo mobbing – thanks to Martha…
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ANDREA PLATE WRITES – Has anyone remained dry-eyed after seeing Sully the dog on TV— President George Herbert Walker Bush’s yellow Labrador service dog, looking woebegone beside his best friend’s coffin? After viewing that TV image, could anyone doubt that dog is not just man’s best friends, but a veteran’s…
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