By SCOTT FONTAINE, Tacoma News Tribune

A mild traumatic brain injury can be frustrating. Patients often look normal but can have a wide range of symptoms, including headaches, fatigue, irritability and memory loss.

James Clark looked big for his age as a teenager and ran with an older crowd. So when his friends reported to the draft board, he followed.

It was 1943, and the country needed troops. Young men were supposed to report when they turned 18.

About a month later, Clark received his orders for basic training.

The U.S. Army had just drafted a 13-year-old.

Boonie wasn't quite sure how to react. At first, he just looked at the plastic contraption attached to his leg. And when he wanted to walk away he limped off on three legs.

After all, it takes a while to adjust to a new prosthetic -- especially if you're a goat.

For centuries, Indians across the Pacific Northwest navigated the area's waterways on canoes. While much has changed for the dozens of tribes in the region, a two-week event hopes to keep the tradition alive.

Jimmy Chen likes to think big and make things happen. The Flight of Hope program is the result.

I wish I could write that "I Lost My Love in Baghdad" is a tragic love story. Or that the author, Newsweek's Michael Hastings, writes a complicated tale of impulse and responsibility and how the two became tangled in the fog of war.

TILLICUM, Wash. -- Eric Salinas used to sit at the counter at Galloping Gerties Restaurant almost every morning. The Tillicum restaurant's staff called him "Mr. Hot Sauce" because the Army specialist dumped so much of the red stuff on his omelet.

The voice cracked over the radio Gary Helmick carried in his right hand. The honor guard quieted.

It was time.

Minutes later, a sedan pulled into the driveway of Shelter 2 at Tahoma National Cemetery, a few miles southeast of Seattle. Seven men with rifles stood at attention. The officer of the day stood stone-faced behind them.