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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Retired Brigadier General Stanley Cherrie flew into machine gun fire, lost a leg to a landmine and directed tanks against Iraqi forces in his long Army career. When he walked into a reunion of top brass looking shaky and then collapsed, another side of his military life was revealed: years of hard drinking had grown into alcoholism that nearly killed him.
US general fights alcoholism after public collapse - Yahoo! News
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Something that really hit home, on a lot of levels.
Again, CoH please.
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#1 - Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:37 PM ESTAlcoholism is a disease like any other. Medical and other beneficial help is available.
When we cease, as a society to stigmatize the disabled because they are ill, and make sure treatment is affordable safe and available, we will all be the better off for it.
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#2 - Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:31 PM ESTYes this is a very sad situation. That sometimes takes an embarrassing moment like this to get a person to even realize they have a problem. I pray treatment works for that person.
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Dear Friend Maria Lyn: I join you in prayer and fellowship. E.
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I am glad he got help and is speaking out.
Schoomaker . . . says drinking remains a problem in the military, but there are efforts to change that.
I hope the efforts succeed!
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