Moving A Nation to Care or The Faiths of Our Fathers

Moving A Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops

Author: Ilona Meagher

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in our returning combat troops is one of the most catastrophic issues confronting our nation. Yet, despite the fact that nearly 20 percent of the over half million troops that have left the military since 2003 have been diagnosed with PTSD, and that many who suffer symptoms are unlikely to seek help because of the stigma of this terrible disease, our government and media have remained silent.

Moving A Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops is a grassroots call to action designed to break the shameful silence and put the issue of PTSD in our returning troops front and center before the American public. In addition to presenting interviews with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffering with PTSD, such as Blake Miller, the famous "Marlboro Man," this book will be the most comprehensive resource to date for concerned citizens who want to understand the complex political, social, and health-related issues of PTSD, with an eye toward "moving our nation to care" to do what is necessary to help our fighting men and women who suffer from PTSD.

Ilona Meagher is editor of the online journal PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within and author of the PTSD Timeline, a comprehensive database of PTSD incidents. She has appeared on Fox News and numerous other media outlets.

Robert Roerich, MD, is one of the world experts in trauma therapy and PTSD and a board member of the National Gulf War Resource Center.

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The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed

Author: Alf J Mapp

In this eloquent little book, leading colonial historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr., provides a highly readable overview of the religious beliefs of eleven of the most esteemed men of the generation that declared our independence and wrote the U. S. Constitution. Perhaps for the first time, we confront the breadth and diversity of the Founding Fathers’ thinking on religious matters. In fact, their sustained ruminations on issues of religion, conscience, and ethics contributed to making their era one of the greatest in human history.
    

As Mapp contends, there was “no monolithic national faith acknowledged by all Founding Fathers. Their religious attitudes were as varied as their political opinions.” This is hardly surprising, as these eleven men—Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, George Washington, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll of Carroltton, and Haym Solomon—came from all parts of the colonies and from differing social backgrounds. 

 

Faiths of Our Fathers explores the profound connections between the Revolutionary period and our own. In doing so, it offers a much-needed corrective to the many misconceptions about the role of faith in the lives of our Founding Fathers.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	In the Beginning Was Variety	1
2	Thomas Jefferson	3
3	Benjamin Franklin	22
4	James Madison	41
5	John Adams	54
6	George Washington	66
7	John Marshall	80
8	Patrick Henry	86
9	Alexander Hamilton	97
10	George Mason	110
11	Charles Carroll of Carrollton	124
12	Haym Salomon	146
13	What Most People Thought	153
App	Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom	158
	Bibliography	161
	Index	178
	About the Author	184