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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
"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...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Viewers got a breakdown of polls in "three states" where Cindy McCain was leading Michelle Obama as the preferred choice for First Lady.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
At a recent dinner, a group of us began talking about the...
In writing about the top 10 medical events of the decade, I...
