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I promised to post the slides for the March 24 presentation/workshop/discussion with exonerees from wrongful convictions at the Innocence Project Conference at Harvard Law School. It was an honor to speak with you all and to hear your experiences.
Here is the presentation: Download innocence_project.ppt
Op-Ed, The Baltimore Sun, Sunday, March 25, 2007
by Richard F. Mollica
No amount of money is going to fix the tragedy unfolding under public scrutiny at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Department of Veterans Affairs...Sadly, the ill treatment of injured soldiers is a tale with a long history. The public neglect of Vietnam veterans, for example, is well-known.
It is the genius of the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles that he described our current situation more than 2,000 years ago. In his play Philoctetes, he addresses the condition of every wounded hero: How can traumatized soldiers be made whole again, after terrible events place them in painful and unpredictable circumstances, and our society either ignores or abandons them? More>
Watch for our upcoming video post from the March 3 book reading and fundraiser for the Lincoln Sudbury High School chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), co-sponsored by the Whistle Stop Cafe in Lincoln, MA. I read from Healing Invisible Wounds at the event, then local STAND representatives spoke about the situation in Darfur and how people can get involved to put an end to the genocide occurring there. An open discussion followed, and a $500 check from the Whistle Stop Cafe's sales of Healing Invisible Wounds was presented to STAND.
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