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It’s Time Everyone Learned The Truth About What Happened To Duffy In Iraq...

The U.S. Army A droplet of sweat hitting my hand brings me back to the here and now, sometimes it makes sense. I’m sitting in a delivery truck, keys in hand. Yeah that seems right; but for how long?...

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Rebuilding Our Digital Infrastructure In A Post-War America

Samuel Zeller Destroyed records. Lost appointments. Complacency in an organization created to support the men and women who are willing to sacrifice everything in support of a calling higher than...

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Can We Ever Attain A Peace Beyond Compromise?

Flickr / Luca Melloni There is a cycle in the history of mankind that specifically tells tales of rise and falls. It all makes sense — The Trojan War described by the poet Homer in his great epic “The...

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A MESS. Will The United States Remain A World Power?

My six year old daughter asked me, “What’s so great about the United States anyway?” And I didn’t know what to say to her. I’m from the US. But there’s many problems in how the US plays out its role...

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22 Soldiers On The Most Horrifying Thing They Saw While Deployed

Unsplash / Rhet Noonan 1. A woman stored a bomb inside of her child “My dad was in the Vietnam war and he said it was reported that a woman put a bomb inside her dead baby (which she must have hallowed...

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War Is Coming, The End Is Near, And The Tweets Are Fire

Unsplash / Dawn Armfield If you haven’t heard about the threat of war between North Korea and the U.S., you have apparently stayed far away from all social media, news stations, and civilization in...

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Brandon Webb — Becoming The Master Of Your Own Fate

Max Sandelin His platoon was counting on him. He couldn’t come back a failure. Brandon Webb was deployed to the Middle East four times. He was a SEAL and then he became special operations sniper. “We...

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Tim Kennedy – How To Have A Spirit Of Adventure When It’s Lost

Ali Inay “Have a spirit of adventure, the desire to learn something new, be an explorer and never get too comfortable.” “Imagine this room is filling up with poisonous gas,” Tim said. He’s looking...

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Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior

Cristian Baron I was afraid before interviewing Jocko. I think it was instinctual. His body is seven times the size of mine. I pointed at the cover of his new book, “The Way of The Warrior Kid. “See...

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We Need To Stop Living With So Much Hate Inside Of Us

Alice Donovan Rouse Hate. I feel it everywhere, even in the nooks and crannies of my own world. In Vegas, our nation experienced something we are now so familiar with, and these terror attacks, these...

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In The Midst Of Nuclear War Threats, This Playlist Will Help You Chill The...

Flickr / Gage Skidmore When it comes to his music, President 45 is decidedly VH-1 Classic Dad, with a pinch of Vegas schmaltz. Among his acknowledged favorites are The Rolling Stones’ world-weary, “You...

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Even ‘Star Wars’ Fans Wouldn’t Want To Work For Lucasfilm

Youtube / Movieclips Coming Soon Gareth Edwards turned out one of the best Godzilla films ever, and the reins were taken away. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put out the near-perfect The Lego Movie,...

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PTSD And Complex PTSD: What Happens When You’ve Lived In A Psychological War...

Nastia Cloutier-Ignatiev Normally when we think about “PTSD,” our minds jump to those who’ve been in combat. While it is certainly an issue for those who’ve been in real-life war zones, Post-Traumatic...

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The Invisible War Zone: 5 Ways Children Of Narcissistic Parents Self-Destruct...

God & Man Much of society associates the terms “trauma” and “PTSD” with war veterans. Yet we forget about the children who grow up in war zones at home, who suffer psychological scarring at...

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How To Use ‘The Force’ To Discover True Happiness

Unsplash / Saksham Gangwar In this life nobody knows what is real or fake. We think we do, we are told the differences growing up but the actual knowledge escapes us. This is because our minds are too...

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The Government Is Waging War On Social Media — And For A Good Reason

Unsplash / William Iven Last week, lawyers from Google, Facebook and Twitter met with a Senate judiciary subcommittee to testify about social media’s role in politics, specifically the Russian online...

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Let’s Fight A War On Addiction, Not Drugs

Flickr / Pixel Addict Recently the war on drugs has been raging more fiercely than ever. And I am not talking about the war between drug dealers and law enforcement. I am talking about a different war....

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I Am Within The Wildest War Inside Of Myself

Janne Robinson I am within the wildest war inside of myself I want to write down every blink of my father’s brown eyes ever stroke of his brown salt and peppered grey beard I want to write the White of...

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An Open Letter To All The Women At War With Themselves

God & Man I don’t know any woman who hasn’t gone to bed wishing she could wake up as somebody else. Prettier, fairer, curvier, thinner, or smarter. Not too smart though. Just enough to get a seat...

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Aaron Carter Got Into A Twitter War With A Sorority Girl And Proved That 2017...

Twitter / @jennalarson and Twitter / @aaroncarter If Aaron Carter wasn’t your first love, did you even grow up in the early 2000s? He was basically the boyfriend we all pretended to have as we blasted...

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