Don McNay, 12.08.2009
Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.
America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.
Carl Pope, 11.13.2009
Executive Director of the Sierra Club
Veterans Day had always been a day-off from environmentalism for me, but this year Veterans week was different. The Sierra Club was really, for the first time, a full participant.
BJ Gallagher, 11.11.2009
BJ Gallagher is Los Angeles sociologist, author, and speaker. Her international best-seller, A ...
The biggest price I paid, along with other military kids, was enormous anxiety. For you see, Death was always lurking around in the background, but no one ever talked about it.
Christian Avard, 11.11.2009
Staff reporter Deerfield Valley News, Dover VT
Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror. She made international headlines as she traveled to Iraq to visit her son stationed in the Sunni Triangle.
David Quigg, 06.25.2009
Ex-reporter, avid photographer, and blogger at davidquigg.com
If today were any day other than Memorial Day, I wouldn't make it to the end of this sentence without flinging some heartfelt insult at Dick Cheney.
Craig Newmark, 06.04.2009
Founder of Craigslist
DonorsChoose.org is a great example of how we all use the Net to help each other out, by pooling a few dollars to give people a break. It's like microfinance applied to classroom projects.
Paul Rieckhoff, 01.05.2009
Exec. Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)
Our troops are missing Christmases, birthdays, and wedding anniversaries -- often back to back. The marathon deployment cycle is adding greater stress to already strained families.
Lorelei Kelly, 12.11.2008
Director, New Strategic Security Initiative
Today we are sorely lacking informed public debate on national security and what it means to serve just when today's threats put us beyond the protection of the armed services.
Marcia G. Yerman, 12.01.2008
New York based writer focusing on women's issues and the arts; Co-Founder of cultureID
I previously wrote an article about those who have served in our military, and the challenges facing them and their families. At that time, I intervi...
Diane Tucker, 11.29.2008
Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC
"On the news yesterday, they revealed a potential neo-Nazi plot against Barack Obama, and then they gave more details on the racially-motivated Ashley...
Julie Bergman Sender, 11.24.2008
There are no more persuasive or moving voices we can listen to right now than the soldiers and families who have had and are currently experiencing, the pain, injury, loss, and aftermath of war first hand.
Noel Koch, 11.22.2008
General Powell has said: "I would follow President Obama." It is a conclusion many of us, veterans and active duty personnel, and military families, have reached by different routes in the past year.
Michelle Gross, 11.08.2008
Blue Star Navy Wife, Gold Star Navy Sister-in-Law
In the second presidential debate, McCain laid out his bailout plan to help average Americans in this economic crisis.
You know that home values of ...
Laura Dempsey and Kathy Roth-Douquet, 10.06.2008
Sarah Palin has been touted from the beginning as somebody who has made real decisions. I'm getting flashbacks to another "decider" and his brand of leadership.
Marcia G. Yerman, 09.11.2008
New York based writer focusing on women's issues and the arts; Co-Founder of cultureID
Viewers got a breakdown of polls in "three states" where Cindy McCain was leading Michelle Obama as the preferred choice for First Lady.
MOMocrats, 09.07.2008
Make no mistake. Michelle gets it. In a way I don't think that Senator McCain, or Cindy McCain the heiress, could get it in a million years.
Darryle Pollack, 08.09.2008
writer/artist/survivor
My daughter is a military wife. Which makes me a military mother-in-law. Which means that I have a personal interest in Bush's announcement about shorter combat tours.
Dante Zappala, 06.02.2008
My National Guardsman brother would be alive were it not for the war in Iraq. Today, let us distinguish between the nobility of service and the nobility of this war.
Mary Lyon, 04.01.2008
As we limp into Year Six, listen to the troops' families. They offer the only clear picture anyone among the rest of us will get, to illuminate even a small part of their sacrifice.
Chris Weigant, 03.28.2008
Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)
It's been a week of circular logic from the political world.
To begin with, Mitt Romney gave a speech on religion. This speech was brilliantly summed...