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...brave, tireless doctors at the United States Army's 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. But not all Iraq combat surgeons think the film - which includes images of a soldier being carried from a helicopter, his face burned beyond recognition - is such a good idea. Last week Dr. Joseph Brennan, who is an Air Force Colonel, received an email directed to all Armed Forces medical personnel warning of the potential traumatic effects the film's graphic content may have on service members and their families...
...going to watch it. And I told my children they won't watch it either," Brennan, a head and neck surgeon who served at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq during 2004 and 2005, said last week. Brennan's tour coincided with the Fallujah offensive in November 2004, one of the most lethal months of the war, and a period when his hospital treated more than 600 patients, performing more than 500 surgeries. "War is the most horrible thing there is. People get killed. People get blown up, mangled. I know people are going to say that people...
...Some of Brennan's colleagues don't take the same view. Colonel Donald Jenkins, who served with Brennan and currently oversees U.S. military trauma care in Iraq and Afghanistan, sees benefits in the exposure. "I think it's really good for the families of the medics, nurses, and physicians to see this from another perspective," he says, and the families of those deployed "can be comforted by knowing what fantastic trauma care is available to their kids." Another possible result, Jenkins sees, is the film's potential as a recruitment tool for military medicine. "I believe people are motivated when...
...Florida is the only state that levies fines for submitting registration applications late or not at all, says Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, who also represents the plaintiffs. And the LWV of Florida claims the impact of the fines could be devastating. "The League of Women Voters' entire annual budget of $80,000 would be decimated if only sixteen voter registration applications collected by its volunteers were lost in a flood, or if its volunteers took 11 days to submit the few hundred applications they often collect during...
...relation to the former President), a Sarasota Republican who sponsored the law, says political parties are exempt from the law "because we rarely have a problem with political parties. It didn't matter what side you were on. We were not going to penalize them." But Weiser of the Brennan Center calls that position "discriminatory. The League of Women Voters and AFL-CIO have been forced to shut down their operations. It's not only burdensome but discriminatory. That's problematic - and unconstitutional...