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In word-wise America, "sacrifice" has triumphed as the socially polite term for referring to the thousands of American lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Excited to abduct my grandmother this morning, in hopes of whisking her off to the National Cemetery in Riverside where my grandfather and aunt lay, I...
Daniel Robelo | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
It's a sad day in America when, instead of being offered compassion and treatment, veterans struggling with substance abuse and PTSD as a result of their service are locked up for these conditions.
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...
Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Veteran's Day Quotes are not hard to come by, but here's a compilation of some of the best and most famous in one place. "Freedom is never free." -...
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?
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 10.21.2009 | Impact
Michelle Obama paid a visit to the Veterans Affairs headquarters on Tuesday, part of a tour of all cabinet department headquarters, and thanked VA emp...
Max Stier | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Lost in the inflammatory rhetoric is what our government and its dedicated public servants accomplish every day -- the delivery of vital services to deal with seemingly intractable problems.
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...
Michael D. Brown | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
Tim Masters has been busy trying to rebuild his life after almost ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Now he does not have access to the GI benefits he deserves.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
During the last administration, it took major scandals to get anything fixed in the Department, and then it was never corrected at this level.
Dawn Teo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
During just the last fiscal year, VA executives received more than $4.3 million in bonuses.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
I look back on my almost 25-year-long life of being treated by public health care, and am honestly insulted by the misinformation that comes from anti-reformers.
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
If government-run insurance and care is so evil and so horrible, then why do conservatives keep supporting leaving America's troops and veterans in that kind of system?
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!
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
This week, the Government Accountability Office released a stunning new report detailing significant barriers that many female veterans face in accessing health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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.
newsweek.com | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green
You might think that Dan Leary, now 32, had other things to worry about when he decided he'd start a solar company. In 2005, while on active duty in t...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Fifty million Brazilian students will have Christmas in July when software Santa slips down the chimney to give them a free ticket on the information highway.
AP | BILL POOVEY | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A congressional panel is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment t...
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The stigma that veterans face has turned into widespread employment discrimination, precisely at a time when getting a job is especially difficult.
Christian Avard | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Their seclusion, combined with the military's history of gender discrimination and the uniquely challenging conditions in Iraq, has resulted in a mounting epidemic of sexual abuse, physical degeneration, and emotional distress.
Jon Soltz | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
In all three areas of veteran care, while there's a ton to still do, there's been dramatic improvement in Obama's first 100 days.
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Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics