Loan program for veteran entrepreneurs
New legislation could offer small business loans
WPRI.com
Updated: Sunday, 17 Feb 2013
By: Stephanie Mangano
PROVIDENCE, R.I (WPRI)-- New legislation could help veterans looking to start a small business.
Legislation was introduced in the General Assembly last week to set up a loan program for veteran entrepreneurs
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Iraq veteran relays the trauma, tragedy of war
Iraq veteran relays the trauma, tragedy of war
Christopher Baker
Issue date: 10/7/08 Section: Campus News
The Brown Daily Herald - Providence,RI,USA
Tuesday night, Iraq War veteran Kristofer Goldsmith tried to describe what a dead human body smells like to a wide-eyed audience of more than 50 students, professors and community members.
"I can tell you that it doesn't smell like a raccoon that got run over a week ago. It doesn't smell like road kill. There is a very, very distinct smell to a dead human."
He said he experiences this smell every time he sees gore in a movie like "Saw."
"The smell isn't just your nose. You can taste it. You can taste the iron of the blood floating in the air," he said.
Goldsmith, 23, came to Brown as a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, a group that advocates for veterans' rights and the end of U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, to speak about his traumatic experience serving in the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry between 2005 and 2007. The talk was sponsored by anti-war group Operation Iraqi Freedom, Students for a Democratic Society, Brown Democrats, Rhode Island Mobilization Committee, Active Minds and Brown American Civil Liberties Union. It took place in MacMillan 115.
Goldsmith, a Long Island native, joined the army when he was 18 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. He was first deployed to Iraq in January 2005. By the time he returned to the United States in December 2006, he had developed post-traumatic stress disorder and severe alcoholism.
"I didn't feel human anymore," Goldsmith said.
His contract, which was set to expire in May 2007, was extended indefinitely as part of the troop surge announced by President Bush in January 2007. On Memorial Day of that year, the day his infantry was set to redeploy to Iraq, he attempted suicide.
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Christopher Baker
Issue date: 10/7/08 Section: Campus News
The Brown Daily Herald - Providence,RI,USA
Tuesday night, Iraq War veteran Kristofer Goldsmith tried to describe what a dead human body smells like to a wide-eyed audience of more than 50 students, professors and community members.
"I can tell you that it doesn't smell like a raccoon that got run over a week ago. It doesn't smell like road kill. There is a very, very distinct smell to a dead human."
He said he experiences this smell every time he sees gore in a movie like "Saw."
"The smell isn't just your nose. You can taste it. You can taste the iron of the blood floating in the air," he said.
Goldsmith, 23, came to Brown as a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, a group that advocates for veterans' rights and the end of U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, to speak about his traumatic experience serving in the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry between 2005 and 2007. The talk was sponsored by anti-war group Operation Iraqi Freedom, Students for a Democratic Society, Brown Democrats, Rhode Island Mobilization Committee, Active Minds and Brown American Civil Liberties Union. It took place in MacMillan 115.
Goldsmith, a Long Island native, joined the army when he was 18 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. He was first deployed to Iraq in January 2005. By the time he returned to the United States in December 2006, he had developed post-traumatic stress disorder and severe alcoholism.
"I didn't feel human anymore," Goldsmith said.
His contract, which was set to expire in May 2007, was extended indefinitely as part of the troop surge announced by President Bush in January 2007. On Memorial Day of that year, the day his infantry was set to redeploy to Iraq, he attempted suicide.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Band to pay $1M in case over deadly club fire
There are more pictures online.
Band to pay $1M in case over deadly club fire
Story Highlights
Fire at Rhode Island night club killed 100
Great White, an '80s rock band, agrees to $1M settlement
Pyrotechnics at band's show started deadly blaze
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- The 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million.
The settlement offer from Great White to survivors and victims' relatives was revealed in court papers Tuesday.
Roughly $175 million has now been offered by dozens of defendants to settle lawsuits over the blaze in February 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/02/club.fire.settlement.ap/index.html
I was living in Mass when this happened and it was so horrific watching it on TV. This is what happened.
At least 96 killed in nightclub inferno
Governor: DNA might be only clue to identity of some victims
Friday, February 21, 2003 Posted: 11:45 PM EST (0445 GMT)
WEST WARWICK, Rhode Island (CNN) -- Ninety-six people died Thursday in a fast-moving fire at a Rhode Island nightclub, Gov. Don Carcieri said Friday afternoon, adding that only a handful of the bodies have been identified.
With 35 people in critical and serious conditions, the governor said it would not surprise him if the death toll were to rise above 100.
Because some bodies are badly burned, Carcieri said, family members might have to wait for DNA testing to learn their loved ones' fate.
Dorothy Palazzo is searching for her cousin, who attended the music show at The Station concert club in West Warwick.
"We're hoping that he walks in that door," she said. "He's got a great wife, beautiful children waiting for him to walk through the door and come home."
Other families made the rounds of hospitals and morgues, several showing photographs of the missing in hopes that someone saw them escape the club.
Pyrotechnics used by the heavy metal band Great White ignited the inferno. Owners of the nightclub have said they did not know the band planned to use fireworks, but Great White lead singer Jack Russell said, "Our tour manager set that up with the club." (Full story)
At least 187 injured people were taken to nearby hospitals, where 81 were admitted, the governor said. Ten were flown to the nearest burn centers in Massachusetts.
Investigators are sifting the charred wreckage for personal identification and belongings that might help identify the victims, he said.
Families are being asked to bring photographs of the missing to a crisis center that has been set up at the nearby Crowne Plaza Hotel. Grief counselors and clergy members are on hand to help families.
CNN still has the link up
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/02/21/deadly.nightclub.fire/
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