Donald Martinez has 7 articles published.
America is supposed to be the world’s exporter of democracy, a profile in and of the peaceful transition of power for our generation and generations to come. As the country transitions from the presidency of Donald J. Trump to that of Joseph R. Biden, America remains more fractured than ever. Keep Reading
![The Mind of Bolton - AUMF and the New Iran War [Lima Charlie News]](https://75bdb6.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Inside-the-mind-of-Bolton-Lima-Charlie-News-main-01-480x320.png)
John Bolton, President Trump’s National Security Advisor, is searching for a way to use the 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF) to bypass Congress. Evidence. All I needed was the evidence … As I exited the Oval Office, that objective repeated in my… Keep Reading
![Image Geronimo: A Service Dog's Tale [Lima Charlie News][Image: Don Martinez]](https://75bdb6.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Geronimo-A-Service-Dogs-Tale-Don-Martinez-480x320.png)
Lima Charlie News Correspondent Don Martinez, a combat veteran, is about to embark on an adventure with his best friend and service dog, Geronimo. My first service dog was named Charlie. She was a Yellow Lab that I rescued from the local shelter. She was… Keep Reading
Did you get your sleep last night? What kind of food do you eat? How often do you work out? I am not a doctor, but I do know all humans need these three basic things to be productive. So, the question is this: are… Keep Reading
![Image After a nightmare of prescription pills, medical marijuana helped me sleep [Lima Charlie News]](https://75bdb6.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/PTSD-marijuana-480x320.jpg)
You probably have an opinion about medical marijuana. Let me share my story before you tell me what it is. In 2008, after my second deployment to Iraq, I was medically retired from the Army for injuries sustained during combat. Like every other veteran who… Keep Reading
![Image Leave No One Behind: Our Noble Interpreters [Lima Charlie News]](https://75bdb6.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Don-Martinez-SEPT-7-480x320.jpg)
A combat officer’s tribute to those that helped him survive in a foreign and hostile land: the noble interpreter. As a young combat arms officer deployed in Iraq, I didn’t know much about the language or culture of the Iraqi people, let alone the Muslim… Keep Reading
![Image Swords to Plowshares: Urban Farming for the New Warrior [Lima Charlie News]](https://75bdb6.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swords-to-Plowshares-480x320.jpg)
A U.S. Army combat veteran reports on the therapeutic nature of returning to the land, and a business built on urban farming. After 20 years of travails and a 10-year-long war, literature’s most celebrated veteran, Odysseus, finally returns to his homeland to find he does… Keep Reading
