'Mistake' changes longtime GI's life
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He was back in uniform, back where he belonged. Twenty-seven pounds lighter. On the verge of a promotion to staff sergeant. Happy again, and sober. A man escaping an ugly past to build a respectable future.
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How to lose less and learn from your mistakes.
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In his 20-year career as a soldier, 1st Sgt. Michael McElveen has missed a lot of important moments with his family &amp;#151; birthdays, anniversaries, holidays.
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An ex-Army officer criticises the US and UK for failing to plan properly for the aftermath of the Iraq war.
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Those words evoke powerful emotions for combat veterans of the Vietnam War three decades after they served in a military conflict many believe was undone by politicians and an increasingly disapproving public.
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After a tormented existence as a father, a husband, a Coast Guardsman, and a construction worker, a 57-year-old suburban Boston man underwent a sex-change operation. And then she wrote off the $25,000 in medical expenses on her taxes.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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A California man who tested positive for HIV recently learned the diagnosis was a mistake -- a fact that took eight years to discover.
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IBD defends its list of investing mistakes -- do you agree?
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You'd think the details would be scorched into a veteran's memory like a cattle brand: ducking gunfire, seeing someone die in battle, bracing against a blast's concussion. Who could forget?
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An independent inquiry has concluded thousands of Gulf War veterans were made ill by their service. Shaun Rusling and Noel Baker, who have experienced a variety of illnesses since serving in the Gulf, are
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Your past can be changed--or at least your recollection of it.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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Ray Oliva went into the spare bedroom in his home in Kelseyville, Calif., to wrestle with his feelings. He didn't know a single soldier at Walter Reed, but he felt he knew them all. He worried about the wounded who were entering the world of military health care, which he knew all too well. His own VA hospital in Livermore was a mess. The gown he wore was torn. The wheelchairs were old and broken....
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Some homeowners learn from their mistakes. Others don't.
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An Army pathologist apologized Thursday for misplacing body parts that are key to the case against a Marine major accused of abusing an Iraqi prisoner last year.
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How one of America's most trusted figures became the frontman for the Bush administration's biggest mistake.