Lynn firefighter made 'tourniquets out of belts and shoe strings'
Originally Published on Wednesday, April 17, 2013
By Thor Jourgensen
The Daily Item
LYNN — The low-pitched boom silenced the crowd seated around Matt Patterson inside Abe and Louie's, and the explosion that followed drove the Lynn firefighter to his feet and toward the restaurant's front door.
Patterson pushed through other diners, shouting at them to move to the restaurant's kitchen, before running outside and clearing one, then a second barrier blocking off the Boston Marathon's finish line area along Boston's Boylston Street.
The 30-year-old Army veteran's training and firefighter paramedic skills kicked in as Patterson knelt next to a boy lying in the street. One of the blasts sheared off the boy's right leg and Patterson told a man who ran up to help him, "I need your belt."
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Mainer accepts award in Washington for victims advocacy
Mainer accepts award in Washington for victims advocacy
Ruth Moore Act of 2013 would make it easier for veterans and service members to qualify for disability benefits due to sexual assault
Morning Sentinel
By Kevin Miller
Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON -- It took Ruth Moore a quarter-century before she was able to speak openly about how she was sexually assaulted as an 18-year-old Navy enlistee.
And even now -- after talking to members of Congress, military officials and countless veterans with similar stories -- the experience is still painful for a woman who occasionally still wants to "run away and hide with my goats" on her farm in Down East Maine.
So on Wednesday, as she accepted a Voice for Change Award on Capitol Hill, Moore said she did so on behalf of all of the others like her out there.
"We carried the battle cry across this nation," Moore, of Milbridge, told several hundred people attending a Service Women's Action Network Truth and Justice Summit. "I will accept this award with the knowledge that we all accept this award together. Because when I look at the people here I see the bravery, courage, pain, anger and conviction that I carry and live with every day."
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Ruth Moore Act of 2013 would make it easier for veterans and service members to qualify for disability benefits due to sexual assault
Morning Sentinel
By Kevin Miller
Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON -- It took Ruth Moore a quarter-century before she was able to speak openly about how she was sexually assaulted as an 18-year-old Navy enlistee.
And even now -- after talking to members of Congress, military officials and countless veterans with similar stories -- the experience is still painful for a woman who occasionally still wants to "run away and hide with my goats" on her farm in Down East Maine.
So on Wednesday, as she accepted a Voice for Change Award on Capitol Hill, Moore said she did so on behalf of all of the others like her out there.
"We carried the battle cry across this nation," Moore, of Milbridge, told several hundred people attending a Service Women's Action Network Truth and Justice Summit. "I will accept this award with the knowledge that we all accept this award together. Because when I look at the people here I see the bravery, courage, pain, anger and conviction that I carry and live with every day."
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Arizona National Guardsman-legislator take on Combat PTSD
State lawmaker and veteran works to help fellow Arizona National Guard vets
ABC 15
By: Lori Jane Gliha
April 18, 2013
PHOENIX - NEW LEGISLATION TO HELP VETERANS
He may be an eight-year veteran of the Arizona National Guard, but Rep. Mark Cardenas (D-Phoenix) is a rookie when it comes to the Arizona State legislature.
The 26-year-old Phoenix native is only a freshman in the state’s House of Representatives, but he’s already making a big impact as the co-chair of the state's first-ever bi-partisan Veteran’s Caucus in the legislature.
The Iraq war vet went straight to work when he was elected. He drafted a bill aimed at improving the lives of veterans in our state.
“We could be the state that shows the rest of the union what [the] most veteran-friendly state in the entire country can be,” he said.
House bill 2484 targets joblessness among veterans by offering tax incentives to businesses in Arizona who hire veterans. It will also help veteran’s find work by allowing them to get advance notice of new state jobs before they are publicly posted.
The bill has already passed in the House, and he says he is confident it will make its way to the Governor’s desk because of the support it has already received in Senate committees.
However, the bill is currently stalled until a state budget is released.
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ABC 15
By: Lori Jane Gliha
April 18, 2013
PHOENIX - NEW LEGISLATION TO HELP VETERANS
He may be an eight-year veteran of the Arizona National Guard, but Rep. Mark Cardenas (D-Phoenix) is a rookie when it comes to the Arizona State legislature.
The 26-year-old Phoenix native is only a freshman in the state’s House of Representatives, but he’s already making a big impact as the co-chair of the state's first-ever bi-partisan Veteran’s Caucus in the legislature.
The Iraq war vet went straight to work when he was elected. He drafted a bill aimed at improving the lives of veterans in our state.
“We could be the state that shows the rest of the union what [the] most veteran-friendly state in the entire country can be,” he said.
House bill 2484 targets joblessness among veterans by offering tax incentives to businesses in Arizona who hire veterans. It will also help veteran’s find work by allowing them to get advance notice of new state jobs before they are publicly posted.
The bill has already passed in the House, and he says he is confident it will make its way to the Governor’s desk because of the support it has already received in Senate committees.
However, the bill is currently stalled until a state budget is released.
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In Boston blasts, veterans shift into combat mode
In Boston blasts, veterans shift into combat mode
Washington Post
By Vernon Loeb
Published: April 17, 2013
When the bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, Brennan Mullaney and Eusebio Collazo were together on the course at mile 25.
Mullaney, now a captain in the Army Reserve, served 15 months during the “surge” in Iraq. Collazo of Humble, Tex., a former Marine corporal, was wounded in Iraq’s Anbar province by mortar shrapnel and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
They were approaching Boylston Street as members of a national nonprofit group that promotes healing among veterans, Team Red, White and Blue. And then suddenly the tables turned, and they found themselves helping to heal and comfort a city that had never experienced a roadside bomb.
“The real crazy symbolism here is that this was essentially an IED, an improvised explosive device,” said Army Maj. Mike Erwin, who founded the team in 2010 to help veterans heal and re-integrate into their communities through running and other physical activities. “What runners and the community experienced in Boston is the exact same thing that hundreds of thousands of service members have experienced since 2002, when they started using IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
As smoke wafted across Boylston Street and maimed marathon spectators lay across a bloody sidewalk, one veteran, an Army colonel and runner, shifted into combat mode as he crossed the finish line. He turned back into the chaos, peeled off his Team Red, White & Blue T-shirt and tied it as a tourniquet on the limb of a bombing victim.
A combat veteran who served in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart, the colonel later refused to allow a team spokesman to release his name after snippets of his actions were caught on video.
Turning T-shirts into tourniquets is not something most spectators along the marathon course would have had much experience with. “When we’re deployed, we all carry tourniquets — nice ones,” said Mullaney, 30, of Cumberland, Md., now a graduate student at Tufts University.
“When you see missing limbs, the first thing all of us know is to tie a tourniquet.”
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Washington Post
By Vernon Loeb
Published: April 17, 2013
When the bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, Brennan Mullaney and Eusebio Collazo were together on the course at mile 25.
Mullaney, now a captain in the Army Reserve, served 15 months during the “surge” in Iraq. Collazo of Humble, Tex., a former Marine corporal, was wounded in Iraq’s Anbar province by mortar shrapnel and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
They were approaching Boylston Street as members of a national nonprofit group that promotes healing among veterans, Team Red, White and Blue. And then suddenly the tables turned, and they found themselves helping to heal and comfort a city that had never experienced a roadside bomb.
“The real crazy symbolism here is that this was essentially an IED, an improvised explosive device,” said Army Maj. Mike Erwin, who founded the team in 2010 to help veterans heal and re-integrate into their communities through running and other physical activities. “What runners and the community experienced in Boston is the exact same thing that hundreds of thousands of service members have experienced since 2002, when they started using IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
As smoke wafted across Boylston Street and maimed marathon spectators lay across a bloody sidewalk, one veteran, an Army colonel and runner, shifted into combat mode as he crossed the finish line. He turned back into the chaos, peeled off his Team Red, White & Blue T-shirt and tied it as a tourniquet on the limb of a bombing victim.
A combat veteran who served in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart, the colonel later refused to allow a team spokesman to release his name after snippets of his actions were caught on video.
Turning T-shirts into tourniquets is not something most spectators along the marathon course would have had much experience with. “When we’re deployed, we all carry tourniquets — nice ones,” said Mullaney, 30, of Cumberland, Md., now a graduate student at Tufts University.
“When you see missing limbs, the first thing all of us know is to tie a tourniquet.”
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Officials: Arrest made in ricin scare
Officials: Arrest made in ricin scare
By Matt Smith and Carol Cratty
CNN
updated 8:00 PM EDT, Wed April 17, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Arrest came in Tupelo, Mississippi area
Sources say the FBI expects to receive test results on letters Thursday
Envelopes were addressed to Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi
Initial tests on those envelopes detected the deadly poison ricin; additional tests under way
(CNN) -- An arrest has been made in connection with letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker that authorities are testing to determine if they contain ricin, two federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
The person was arrested in the Tupelo, Mississippi, area, one of the officials said.
Discovered Tuesday, the letters were addressed to Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and to Obama.
The letters were stopped at a government mail-screening facility after initial tests indicated the presence of ricin.
Because initial tests can be "inconsistent," the envelopes have been sent off for additional tests, an FBI statement said. The FBI does not expect to receive results from the tests until Thursday, federal law enforcement sources told CNN.
The letters read: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."
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By Matt Smith and Carol Cratty
CNN
updated 8:00 PM EDT, Wed April 17, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Arrest came in Tupelo, Mississippi area
Sources say the FBI expects to receive test results on letters Thursday
Envelopes were addressed to Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi
Initial tests on those envelopes detected the deadly poison ricin; additional tests under way
(CNN) -- An arrest has been made in connection with letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker that authorities are testing to determine if they contain ricin, two federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
The person was arrested in the Tupelo, Mississippi, area, one of the officials said.
Discovered Tuesday, the letters were addressed to Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and to Obama.
The letters were stopped at a government mail-screening facility after initial tests indicated the presence of ricin.
Because initial tests can be "inconsistent," the envelopes have been sent off for additional tests, an FBI statement said. The FBI does not expect to receive results from the tests until Thursday, federal law enforcement sources told CNN.
The letters read: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."
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