By Media Coverage | Mar 25, 2015
Evelyn, an Army nurse who served in the Vietnam War, shared a story of such prolonged suffering that I was unable to turn away. For too many years, Evelyn held onto the bitter experiences of her service as a helicopter nurse, reliving day in and day out the toll that...
By Media Coverage | Mar 24, 2015
In my encore, I have started a non-profit called Canine Community Corps. Working in Maine and New Hampshire, we rescue shelter dogs, arrange for inmates at the county jail to train them, and then adopt them out to veterans with PTSD as emotional support assistants....
By Karen M. Sughrue | Mar 24, 2015
I grew up in a single parent family – Mom and the 8 of us lived in a three-room house. I understood poverty and what it means not to have enough and when I looked at the problems around me in Mississippi, they were so big, I wanted to go somewhere else. I went...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Mar 24, 2015
I retired after thirty-five years at General Motors as liaison with the autoworkers union. I embraced my retirement with open arms and the financial wherewithal to relax for a while. As with most retirees, I was busy with all those projects that were never addressed...