“I Just Want to Disappear”: The End Result of a Lifetime of Dehumanization and Abuse “I just want to disappear” are the last words I said to medical personnel and those same words would end my Air Force career for good. I’m not exactly sure where to start as I’ve never put words to any … More The Desire to Not Exist is Not the Same As Wanting to Die (2025)
MST = Military Sexual Trauma RELATED STORIES: Maine Newspaper & Police Department Leaders Assist Documented Abusive Police Officer in Dehumanization of Disabled Veterans and Kids During a Mental Health Crisis Surviving Injustice: Disabled Veterans Battling to Overcome a Defamatory Article in a Rural Maine Newspaper HIGHLIGHTS: CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND PARENTAL ALIENATION: My life has been nothing but … More “Sexual Assault Advocates” Use Defamatory Newspaper Article & the Small Town Cop’s Lame AF Narrative to Bounce Medically Retired Service Members Out of MST Advocacy (2024)
RELATED STORIES: Maine Newspaper & Police Department Leaders Assist Documented Abusive Police Officer in Dehumanization of Disabled Veterans and Kids During a Mental Health Crisis “Veteran Advocates” Use Defamatory Newspaper Article & the Cops Who Created the Narrative to Bounce Medically Retired Disabled Veterans Out of the Washington DC Game Brief Synopsis: While we were living in … More Surviving Injustice: Disabled Veterans Battling to Overcome a Defamatory Article in a Rural Maine Newspaper (2024)
I lost all respect for Congress, the military, and the media after witnessing how they handled the missing and murder case of Vanessa Guillen at Fort Hood in Texas. What a bunch of fake a$$holes. I cannot even believe I use to affiliate with anyone in the U.S. military after what I have learned over … More Fort Hood: How a Lawyer Out of Nowhere Kept the Problematic Past Hidden, Shut Down the Missing & Murder Element in a Case, and Promoted an Outdated Fix (2024)
Waiting for darknessWhy doesn’t anybody see nowDeafened by silenceWhy doesn’t anybody hear I’m waiting for darkness Playing with fireBut they’re screaming when they’re burned, yeahOut of the sunlightHasn’t anybody learned I know what they’ll findIt’s in their mindIt’s what they want to seeSpare me from the lightHere comes the nightAnd here I’ll stay Waiting for … More “I Just Want to Disappear”: The End Result of a Lifetime of Dehumanization and Abuse (2024)
“Sometimes God will put the Goliath in your life to find the David within you” – Unknown “I, Jennifer, entered this life vowing to fulfill two things; that I would serve and that I would lead. Like the missions I promised to give my all to, to the death if need be, my soul also … More Christine Hassing Published ‘Jennifer and Onyx’ | Our Story of Triumph & Hope After Military Sexual Trauma (February 17, 2019)
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has baffled my mind since first … More Coping with Complex PTSD: A Veteran’s Perspective (2016)
In a recent article published in the Stars and Stripes, the public learned that military commanders were forced to overlook bad behavior to include assault due to wartime demands. According to the article, a recently retired general stated that the “Army desperately needs to clean up misconduct in its ranks.” The response from the Army’s top … More The US Military Recruited Violent Felons to Support the War Efforts
Like a lot of Americans, I have a hard time around 9/11. It’s hard to even write about it but I am going to push through the fear. Like Eleanor Roosevelt has been quoted: “Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.” (As I take deep breaths.) This statement … More Traumatized by Criminals, Toxic Military Leaders, & My Father’s Sudden Death, Then Stop Lossed, Poisoned with Lead, and Suicidal in the Air Force… But I’m Not a “Real” Veteran (2015)
Jennifer and Lee 