I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
“The Warrior’s Guide to Insanity” is six chapters long. The language in it isn’t pretty. But it is Andrew Brandi’s ode to the aftereffects of war.
And even though the emotions that spilled out onto the pages came out of the New Mexican’s painful experiences in Vietnam, his story — and writing — are gaining notice as thousands of American warriors are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
His writings have been incorporated into treatment sessions at Ft. Hood in Texas for soldiers coming back from battle zones. And a brigadier general is considering incorporating Brandi’s book into a broad military treatment for soldiers, both before and after combat.
KUNM reporter Jim Williams talks with Brandi, who lives in the Cerrillos hills south of Santa Fe , and the soldiers now mining his Vietnam experiences to learn how to deal with life after combat, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other maladies that they are susceptible to. Listen here.
