http://www.metafilter.com/tags/battlemind Posts tagged with 'battlemind' at MetaFilter. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:28:56 -0800 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:28:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73676/Battlemind <a href="https://www.battlemind.army.mil/index.cfm?PageTypeName=SoldierSupport">Battlemind: Armor for Your Mind</a> is a U.S. Army website designed to help, in part, families deal with deployment, including a series of cartoons and videos intended for children whose parents may be sent to or be returning from warzones. Part of the Army's <a href="http://www.behavioralhealth.army.mil/index.html">Behavioral Health </a>program, these give intriguing insight into military culture. Cartoons featuring <a href="https://www.battlemind.army.mil/index.cfm?PageTypeName=SoldierSupport&videoId=31">Mr. Poe &amp; Sgt. Drew</a> are oddly juxtaposed with the <a href="https://www.battlemind.army.mil/index.cfm?PageTypeName=SoldierSupport&videoId=50">harrowing account</a> of a Golden Gate suicide survivor: <em>Thus, I ended up leaping off that bridge and at the moment of free fall, I said God, please save me, I don’t want to die. And I always used to say to me, Kevin you are in two feet of water and you are drowning, stand up. If you are in two feet of water right now stand up, walk forward, it’s okay to ask for help. </em> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73676 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:28:56 -0800 afghanistan army battlemind cartoons deployment iraq military psychology PTSD suicide war Rumple