The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The way we care for our veterans is a reflection of our society. We cannot neglect them in their own time of need, as we did following the Vietnam War.
The Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Five years ago this week, an insurgent shot down the Army Black Hawk helicopter that Tammy Duckworth was co-piloting in Iraq. Now an assistant secreta...
Ryan McDermott | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Regardless of one's views on the war, it is important to appreciate the service of those in uniform. We are a fortunate country to have such brave and patriotic troops to protect our freedoms.
William Astore | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
On this Veteran's Day, what if we began to measure our national success and power not by our military arsenal or number of recruits, but rather by the very opposite of that?
James R. Knickman | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
Our legal system must devise new ways to cope with the veterans in the criminal justice system for nonviolent offenses. The first veterans court, in Buffalo, New York, is already showing results.
Ruth Stonesifer | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Somewhere along the way since WWII, America's retailers, not to mention the majority of our country's citizenry, lost their bearings and Veterans Day became just another commercial opportunity.
Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact
Combat Paper is presenting a creative way for veterans to contextualize what they've seen in war. Their goal is to help veterans use art to reconcile ...
Aaron Glantz | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home
More than 30,000 single mothers have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army, the most heavily deployed branch of the military, gives women just four months to stay stateside with their newborns.
Robert Slayton | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Miracles, in other words, may be possible, if we can unleash our scientists and doctors to move ahead with new techniques to heal the sick and damaged.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Bureaucratic delays have left veterans using the Post-9/11 GI Bill with no money to pay college bills. Patrick Campbell, chief legislative counsel fo...
Hal Donahue | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
For 150 veterans assembled at the White House, the greatest immediate and long term threat to our national security is climate change and energy policy.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Four U.S. soldiers were killed by roadside bombs Tuesday, the deadliest day for American forces in Iraq since combat troops pulled bac...
AP | VICTOR EPSTEIN | Posted 10.17.2009 | New York
PATERSON, N.J. — Spc. Leydi Mendoza stood alone among the hugging families in Fort Dix when she and 300 other members of the New Jersey National...
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
This week brought tragic news that among the painful and heartbreaking losses of those Killed in Action was Bill Cahir, a Marine Sergeant, killed in Afghanistan.
Hon. Eric E. Shinseki | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Safely investing one's money requires a reasonable understanding of market forces. Here's an investment option that is guaranteed to pay high dividends for years: the education of America's Post-9/11 Veterans.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
The Department of Veterans' Affairs should ask Congress to fund the change required to install a VKO. Now that's change we could believe in!
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
There are only three combat vets left. We need more because the values that war veterans learn, that they operate under, and that they carry with them after military life could help Capitol Hill.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The nation's armed forces are stretched thin, very thin. Repeal of DADT is a national security issue, first and last.
Norman Lear | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
I imagine my grandmother, Baba, overhearing a conversation about the ironic juxtaposition between the articles and ads in the Times and asking, "Good for the Jews?"
Kayla Williams | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home
Beyond the general public, even Veterans Affairs employees are still sometimes unclear on the nature of modern warfare and women's role in it, presenting challenges for women seeking care.
Rachel Natelson | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
Many figures have decried the inequity of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the president and Congress to repeal the law. However, one community has remained resolutely silent: national veterans service organizations.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 07.21.2009 | World
Why is there still no US-formulated "international strategic plan" to deal with the world's largest refugee crisis caused when our nation invaded Iraq over 6 years ago? On World Refugee Day, we can do better.
Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media
Bob and Lee Woodruff have been just tireless in promoting their cause, and this latest iteration reflects a super-savvy harnessing of new media.
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living