Saturday, June 30, 2012


Topless military wives aim to raise PTSD awareness

​U.S. military wives are exposing their emotions as well as their bodies in an effort to speak out about their husbands' struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. The Battling BARE campaign began at Fort Campbell, a U.S. Army base on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, when founder and military wife Ashley Wise posted a photo of herself online, nude and holding her husband's gun, with a pledge scrawled on her bare back. Wise's mission to unite women like herself in combatting the stigma attached to PTSD resonated with people across the country, rocketing the Facebook page's following to more than 16,000 in less than two months. The "au naturel" pics keep coming, along with the aim to help army wives remember that they're not alone. 

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