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VetJobs Veteran Employment Situation Report

Ted Daywalt | Posted 05.06.2013 | Impact
Ted Daywalt

At VetJobs we continue to see the overall employment situation as marginally improving and the economy continues to remain basically stagnant, particularly as regards employment.

Working to Improve the Lives of Veterans: Project Welcome Home Troops

Robert Piper | Posted 03.27.2013 | Impact
Robert Piper

Countless stories in history of individuals overcoming some of the most extreme hardships are the result of a resilient brain. Project Welcome Home Troops is working to improve the quality of life for thousands of veterans in America through their resilience building program.

Chris Kyle: An Unquestionable Decision

Bryan Wood | Posted 04.07.2013 | Healthy Living
Bryan Wood

When we make decisions in life, we don't have the benefit of hindsight, and we just go ahead and do the best we can with what we have. That is how Chris Kyle lived: doing the best he could, with what he had, to help someone else.

Embracing the Hole and War

Stacy Bare | Posted 12.16.2012 | Impact
Stacy Bare

If I wanted to be normal I would not have joined the Army in the first place, so why would I want it coming home?

Veterans Go Online In Lieu Of Brick-And-Mortar VFWs

AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 11.15.2012 | Technology

DENVER (AP) — Busy, tech-savvy and often miles from their peers, thousands of new veterans are going online to find camaraderie or get their questio...

Marine Competed In Olympics To Honor Late Daughter

AP | GREG BEACHAM | Posted 08.03.2012 | Impact

LONDON -- Before U.S. Marine Sgt. Jamel Herring stepped into the Olympic boxing ring for the first time, he gave a soldier's salute to his cheering te...

WATCH: Why Veterans Should Be "Thanked, Not Cheered"

Bill Moyers | Posted 09.25.2012 | Impact
Bill Moyers

2012-07-26-moyers.JPG "Here's my ideal of a return. First of all, they don't need cheering. It ain't football."

Memorial Day Is Every Day

Deborah Schoeberlein | Posted 07.31.2012 | Healthy Living
Deborah Schoeberlein

Monday was a national day of memory. For those of you who forgot to remember, its never too late to stand by those who have fallen.

Vietnam Vets and How I Got That Story

Lauren Selman | Posted 05.15.2012 | Entertainment
Lauren Selman

During the Vietnam War, networks set up permanent offices in Saigon and sent hundreds of correspondents there throughout the war, and How I Got That Story puts the journalist on the front page and shows their story.

2 Vets Work To Rebuild Baltimore's Most Dangerous Neighborhood

TakePart.com | Posted 03.07.2012 | Impact

Most evenings, Earl Johnson sits outside his new home, props his feet up, and chats with his neighbors. A year ago, this was unheard of in Oliver—on...

Man Receives Lost Wallet 35 Years Later

Posted 02.27.2012 | Good News

When Gean Brown Jr. misplaced his wallet while installing pipes in the attic of a Kansas home around 1976-77, he thought it was gone forever. But ...

WWII Vet Gets Bronze Star, 68 Years Late

Forest Hills Patch | Posted 02.10.2012 | Impact

Arno Heller, a Rego Park resident and World War II veteran, earned a Bronze Star for his commitment to duty — it just came a little late. During ...

NY Woman Beats Rare Eye Disease, Donates Disability Checks To Those In Need

Posted 01.31.2012 | Impact

After overcoming a rare eye disease, Cassy Rivera is seeing things more clearly. Grateful to have had her eyesight restored, Rivera, a Brooklyn mot...

Conn. Man Protects 1,000 Acres Of Trails

Tolland Patch | Posted 01.19.2012 | Impact

Tolland resident Ken Hankinson has an important mission with some serious obstacles; he wants to conserve Tolland's open space and natural beauty with...

WWII Vet Gets Recognition 66 Years Late

AP | By JOSH LOFTIN | Posted 11.14.2011 | Impact

By JOSH LOFTIN, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY -- More than six decades after being freed from a Japanese prisoner of war camp, a Utah veteran was...

My Dad Sarge

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 01.12.2012 | Politics
Rick Tumlinson

My dad (like every vet I have ever met) is heavily defined by his military service. They are soldiers. It is not something they did. It is not a job they held. It is who they are.

"Ghost Ship Sails Through Night And Day"

Alexandra Holzer | Posted 01.11.2012 | Weird News
Alexandra Holzer

There's rumor of an ancient story of the privateer Dash, which was lost in a gale in 1815 off the coast of Maine. Since her disappearance, she has been sighted multiple times -- plain as day with her name visible on the hull.

Disability Employment Awareness Month: A Call To Hire Disabled Vets

Jim Gibbons | Posted 12.08.2011 | Impact
Jim Gibbons

As a person who is blind, I often talk about the value of hiring people with disabilities. That is because they are uniquely equipped to confront chal...

POTUS Makes it Clear: Hiring Vets Is Good Business

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.05.2011 | Politics
Paul Rieckhoff

12.4 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan vets are unemployed as of July. In real numbers, that's 232,000 new veterans struggling to find work. That's a number small enough that if our nation really focused on it, we could make a real dent.

Let The Terminally Ill Decide

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 09.15.2011 | Healthy Living
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.

Uncle Ed was what you would call a man's man. A Korean War Veteran, he was nothing if not a planner. Yet at 84, we could not help but wonder who should make the decisions?

Veteran Unemployment Rate Soars

latimes.com | Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.10.2011 | Business

Unemployment among recently returned veterans, already in double digits, is poised to get worse as more soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan....

Vet Killed on Coaster: Questions Swirl After Fall at Theme Park

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 09.09.2011 | New York

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 208-foot-tall roller coaster in upstate New York remained closed Sunday amid questions about the falling death of an Iraq war ...

WATCH: Disabled Veteran's Charity Home Blocked By Homeowners Association

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.30.2011 | Business

Even after laying his life on the line for the country, and sustaining injuries because of it, Sean Gittens couldn't get the charity house he was offe...

The Importance Of Giving Veterans A Voice

Leila Levinson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Leila Levinson

Civilians have a critical role to pay in helping veterans and their families heal from war. Dedicating virtual and real space to veterans for storytelling would help them break free of their silence.

SBA's New Web Site Is a Clunker

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Jerry Chautin

The U.S. Small Business Administration has a cadre of talented staff whose goal is to help small-business owners succeed. Yet, if there was ever a way to tell someone to not go into business, their newly redesigned website is it.