Vets help to rebuild World Trade Center
By Gregg Zoroya - USA Today
Posted : Tuesday Aug 9, 2011 7:58:38 EDT
NEW YORK — The battered desert combat boots that iron worker Richard Farrell Mohamed wears on the job at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center are not the usual footwear here.
Mohamed, 28 — who grew up a tough kid of Egyptian, Russian and Irish descent from Rockaway, N.Y. — wore the boots when he went to war in Iraq after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
On that clear day, he watched the Twin Towers fall on television while he was in English class at the Lindenhurst High School Alternative Learning Center in Long Island. On this day nearly a decade later, he was helping to rebuild what al-Qaida destroyed in an act he says determined the course of his life.
“You grow up here; 9/11 happens. You join (the National Guard). You go to war.; you come home. And then you’re rebuilding,” he says. “You’re like a full part of this whole thing.”
About a thousand workers are building five office buildings on the World Trade Center site — including the 1,776-foot centerpiece, WTC 1. For some, the job has a particularly special meaning. Labor officials estimate that a few dozen or more military combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, like Mohamed, are on construction crews working at the site.
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Showing posts with label New York National Guards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York National Guards. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
National Guard project will share soldiers' stories
National Guard project will share soldiers' stories
Written by
Valerie Zehl
Calling all National Guard soldiers of the Southern Tier who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001: The New York Army National Guard wants to tell your stories.
"Remember My Service," a project financed by the National Guard Bureau, is intended to create a digital chronicle of those individuals' roles in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn in Iraq.
"The New York National Guard is the only part of America's military team, and perhaps from our culture, that has literally gone from Ground Zero, to the Sunni Triangle and on to the mountains of Afghanistan," said Lt. Col. Paul Fanning, the RMS Command Project Officer and the guard's state public affairs officer.
"Now we have a project to get the details of their service, as personal as we can possibly make it."
read more here
National Guard project will share soldiers' stories
Written by
Valerie Zehl
Calling all National Guard soldiers of the Southern Tier who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001: The New York Army National Guard wants to tell your stories.
"Remember My Service," a project financed by the National Guard Bureau, is intended to create a digital chronicle of those individuals' roles in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn in Iraq.
"The New York National Guard is the only part of America's military team, and perhaps from our culture, that has literally gone from Ground Zero, to the Sunni Triangle and on to the mountains of Afghanistan," said Lt. Col. Paul Fanning, the RMS Command Project Officer and the guard's state public affairs officer.
"Now we have a project to get the details of their service, as personal as we can possibly make it."
read more here
National Guard project will share soldiers' stories
Monday, February 28, 2011
Decorated War Veteran Fatally Struck by Car
Decorated War Veteran Fatally Struck by Car After Celebrating Birthday
Feb 28, 2011 – 10:08 AM
Mara Gay
Contributor
A decorated war veteran who survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan was struck by a car and killed after celebrating his birthday party at a bar on New York's Long Island.
Seamus Byrne was heading home from the bar in Smithtown, N.Y., after celebrating his 33rd birthday with his wife and friends early Sunday when he inadvertently walked into the street and was hit by an oncoming car, according to police.
"He was very happy with his friends, celebrating life," his father-in-law, James Gallagher, told the New York Daily News. "He just wasn't looking at the traffic, and he walked in front of a car."
His wife, Michelle, who is a nurse, witnessed the accident and tried to revive her husband until paramedics arrived, Gallagher told the New York Post. Byrne died later at a hospital.
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Decorated War Veteran Fatally Struck by Car
Feb 28, 2011 – 10:08 AM
Mara Gay
Contributor
A decorated war veteran who survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan was struck by a car and killed after celebrating his birthday party at a bar on New York's Long Island.
Seamus Byrne was heading home from the bar in Smithtown, N.Y., after celebrating his 33rd birthday with his wife and friends early Sunday when he inadvertently walked into the street and was hit by an oncoming car, according to police.
"He was very happy with his friends, celebrating life," his father-in-law, James Gallagher, told the New York Daily News. "He just wasn't looking at the traffic, and he walked in front of a car."
His wife, Michelle, who is a nurse, witnessed the accident and tried to revive her husband until paramedics arrived, Gallagher told the New York Post. Byrne died later at a hospital.
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Decorated War Veteran Fatally Struck by Car
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Sen. Gillibrand Seeks Better Mental Healthcare for NYS Veterans
Sen. Gillibrand Seeks Better Mental Healthcare for NYS Veterans
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 07-01-2010
Brooklyn Has High Number of Vets With PTSD and TBI
BROOKLYN — Brooklyn has the highest number of recent Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the city who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office.
Approximately 580 Brooklyn veterans who returned from Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 suffer from PTSD, more than 540 Brooklyn vets suffer from TBI, and approximately 300 suffer from both, says Gillibrand.
Senator Gillibrand is now announcing new measures to bolster monitoring and treatment for men and women in uniform and new veterans. Her legislative agenda focuses on getting the bureaucracies at the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Veterans Administration (VA) to coordinate more effectively and work to address the stigma associated with mental health treatment by pushing for enhanced screening and better access to mental health providers.
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by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 07-01-2010
Brooklyn Has High Number of Vets With PTSD and TBI
BROOKLYN — Brooklyn has the highest number of recent Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the city who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office.
Approximately 580 Brooklyn veterans who returned from Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 suffer from PTSD, more than 540 Brooklyn vets suffer from TBI, and approximately 300 suffer from both, says Gillibrand.
Senator Gillibrand is now announcing new measures to bolster monitoring and treatment for men and women in uniform and new veterans. Her legislative agenda focuses on getting the bureaucracies at the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Veterans Administration (VA) to coordinate more effectively and work to address the stigma associated with mental health treatment by pushing for enhanced screening and better access to mental health providers.
Senator Gillibrand’s agenda asks to improve coordination between the Veterans Administration and the Defense Department. For example, she says, “the VA and DOD currently have no shared interoperable definition of what even constitutes TBI cases, making it difficult to ensure veterans are immediately receiving effective treatment when they transfer to the VA.”
She is also asking co-sponsoring legislation to “embed” a mental health professional with every National Guard and Reserve unit to build the trust of troops and their families and help identify the onset of mental injuries.read more here
Sen. Gillibrand Seeks Better Mental Healthcare for NYS Veterans
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Treating Returning Heroes
Nearly 8,000 veterans in New York suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton)
About 300 of them are right here in the Southern Tier.
That number keeps growing as the wars overseas continue.
But is there enough treatment available?
Here's Action News Reporter Leigh Dana.
As the Fourth of July holiday approaches, we honor our founding Fathers fight for independence.
Our country's soldiers are currently fighting wars oversees with the goal of freeing us from terrorism.
But as they return home many are still at battle -- with themselves.
"Not all veterans, but some veterans come back from war with various problems that can range from PTSD or difficulty with family or difficulty sleeping or feeling more anxious and uncomfortable in crowds," said Dr. Allison Miller.
Dr. Miller works with veterans at the Binghamton Vet Center to help them re-integrate back into society.
read more of this here
http://www.wbng.com/news/local/97621079.html
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Col. Stephanie Dawson First woman to lead Harlem Hellfighters unit
First woman to lead Harlem Hellfighters unit
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Nov 15, 2008 10:56:11 EST
NEW YORK — The first female brigade commander in New York National Guard history will lead the legendary Harlem Hellfighters.
Col. Stephanie Dawson is to become the commander of the 369th Sustainment Brigade during a ceremony Saturday at the Harlem Armory.
The unit was formed during World War I as an all-black regiment and was among the first brigades to arrive in France. The soldiers of the unit were also among the most decorated veterans of that war.
Dawson is the assistant director of operations at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The 52-year-old Queens resident is also a decorated veteran with a Bronze Star for her service in Iraq.
The Harlem Hellfighters lost 1,500 soldiers during World War I.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_hellfighters_111508/
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Nov 15, 2008 10:56:11 EST
NEW YORK — The first female brigade commander in New York National Guard history will lead the legendary Harlem Hellfighters.
Col. Stephanie Dawson is to become the commander of the 369th Sustainment Brigade during a ceremony Saturday at the Harlem Armory.
The unit was formed during World War I as an all-black regiment and was among the first brigades to arrive in France. The soldiers of the unit were also among the most decorated veterans of that war.
Dawson is the assistant director of operations at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The 52-year-old Queens resident is also a decorated veteran with a Bronze Star for her service in Iraq.
The Harlem Hellfighters lost 1,500 soldiers during World War I.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_hellfighters_111508/
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