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White House Gets Behind The Hiring of Veterans
May 3, 2013:
The private sector has been making commitments to hire veterans for some time now. For example, Walmart, UPS, and others have been doing this for some time. The White House has recently announced a "significant new effort to reduce unemployment and improve job prospects among veterans." They say that they are "enlisting the support" of U.S. companies to hire 435,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years. I am pleased to see a coordinated effort by both the public and private sectors in this effort. All such efforts are to be welcomed, and might I add, encouraged. It is after all, the right thing to do.
Getting My Life Back Together
Mar 25, 2013:
This veteran had to fight hard to get his life back together. He had to fight through alcohol issues, substance abuse, and the very clear symptoms of PTSD. He was taught to not share his problems. He learned to keep things in and it effected his ability to work, and his relationships.
We Are Failing our Post 9/11 Veterans
Mar 25, 2013:
I happened to catch an NBC evening new report tonight and I could not help put sit down and write an article in response to it. According to the report, we currently have over 900,000 post 9/11 war veterans who have applied for disability benefits with the Veterans Administration and are having to wait for those services that they deserve and need for, on average, over 270 days, or almost a full year. In major cities, like New York City, that waiting time skyrockets to over two years.
Leading and Living Strong After Facing Adversity.
Feb 21, 2013:
This is a story that needs to be told. It is not easy to write about. But imagine how much harder it is for these military women who have been through this to even talk about it. That rape happens to these women is truly troubling, but their stories need to be told, so that the military and the VA can respond to it more readily and more respectfully than they have in the past.
Leon Panetta Addresses Students at Georgetown University On What He Called, "Legislative Madness"
Feb 7, 2013:
Leon Panetta gave a speech at Georgetown University today, one of his last acts before leaving his Defense Department leadership position. Panetta served his California district in Congress for eight terms, 16 years before he was called to be the Defense Secretary.
Soldiers for Soldiers
Nov 26, 2012:
A recent story on the local NBC news affiliate KING 5 News, by Zahid Arab, covered the efforts of two wounded veterans to bring more public attention to the lack of services available to our returning veterans.
Homelessness in America
Nov 19, 2012:
Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen and Marines who have been deployed know the feeling of great longing to return to that place we call 'home.' Home means more than a house, a particular street, or group of family and friends. It's all of that, of course, and so much more
Some Suggestions for Celebrating This Year's Veterans Day Holiday
Nov 7, 2012:
In November of 1919 President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of what was called Armistice Day back then. Wilson said, "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations..."
Freedom Must Be Won and Protected In Every Generation
Oct 11, 2012:
Dumpster Diving
Aug 29, 2012:
Can you imagine being a military veteran, a Purple Heart recipient, having served your country with distinction, finding yourself back home in the land of the free and the brace, the land of opportunity and equality for all, "diving" daily into the dumpsters of grocery stores near where you sleep in the bushy corners of a local park, for your daily bread? Well this is the reality for an impossible to believe number of American war veterans.
