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...after Thanksgiving, Mike woke up and told E.J. he couldn't face going to work. He had often scoffed with his co-workers about the emotional help the department had been offering, but on this day he scheduled an appointment with a counselor to request a medical leave. His best friend Rob drove him to the session. Mike answered the counselor's questions--Are you having trouble eating? No. Sleeping? Sometimes--but he didn't volunteer any information. Still, he left feeling a little lighter and carrying explicit instructions to take a vacation with his wife...
Those are the last words the two have shared on the topic. E.J. says she has stopped trying to prod. As long as he's talking to someone--his friends, a counselor, a reporter--she feels he's getting the outlet he needs. "Maybe he's just trying to spare me," she says of his silence. "But I do ask myself if one day all of a sudden it's going to hit him, if it's finally going to become real...
...next day, he went to the Red Cross tent, where a Navy chaplain told him about the family-support center at the Sheraton across from the Pentagon. Sincock had never done any grief counseling before, but, in a way, his own loss made him the truest form of grief counselor. Those who visited the center came to see him as a hero. "All I could do was share my own story with them," he says. "Tell them what I've found. And that there is hope." After Sincock's first day there, Lieut. General John Van Alstyne...
...Speaking the day after the tape was broadcast, President George W. Bush said he had wrestled with whether to release it at all. Bush first saw the tape toward the end of November and discussed its message with Karen Hughes, his counselor. The President was nervous about its effect on the families of victims, some of whom, when they heard of its existence, argued that it should be kept under wraps. But Bush said he thought the tape amounted to a "devastating declaration of guilt"- and to all but the most blinkered of viewers, it does. Bin Laden boasts...
...first-year said that the BSC and HUPD contacted him because the Extension School student used his name when the BSC counselor asked for the name of his roommate...