Happy Birthday to us - we're two years old! This blog was started back in February, 2006, with this post, and almost 300 posts later, we're still here, alive 'n kickin'. That's almost a post every other day. We've managed to cover a lot of topics, even win a nice award in the process, and be read by people all over the world, including frequent visitors from colleges and universities, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, the DOD, the Pentagon, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, various major media outlets, including ABC, CBS and NBC, even lately some movie studios. (Although they're probably looking for references to Rudy Reyes...) In fact, our readership has increased more than tenfold, just in the last year alone. And in the first two months of this year, we're on a pace to multiply that by five or six times more. Other accomplishments we're proud of? We've built a cool library of veteran-oriented reading material, focused on combat trauma and PTSD, along with first person narratives of war, which are important to read if you want to know what veterans have experienced. It can't just be head knowledge: it has to be heart knowledge, too. We've created a group on Facebook for those interested in this topic, as well as a page where you can show that you're a "fan" of this website. And become friends with some wonderful other bloggers who also cover this territory in able fashion, in particular Ilona Meagher and Kathie Costos.
In the upcoming months, we want to get back to exploring more of our core purpose of this blog, which is to bring attention to the key medical, psychological and legal remedies for combat trauma, as well as focus on who some of the experts are. The goal of having this blog in the first place? That those who suffer from combat trauma will end up being able to find catharsis. The type of result that involves dealing with it, addressing it, and ultimately, moving through it and beyond it. And if the injured veteran is in the middle of the concentric circles, the ripples on a pond, that those in the outer rings, from family members, to ultimately, decisionmakers, would understand what combat trauma is -- how to prevent, how to work with it, how to heal it. And that would be "Healing Combat Trauma," indeed.
