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For military members who experience post-traumatic stress disorder, their family often suffers as well. That was the case for ...

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Light presents himself as an innocent student doing some late-night studying while hiding a page from the Death Note inside a ...

Mansfield native Dale Von Linger was part of the World War II Bataan Death March and survived three years of Japanese ...

Learning from Silence," a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.