Last month, Impact showed you how to give back to the troops for Veterans Day. The holiday season brings with it even more ways individuals can make a...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
It is, I would suggest, time for progressives to start searching for a serious, gutsy, plain-speaking candidate to challenge Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2012.
Nan Roman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact
The latest numbers show that 131,000 United States veterans will be homeless tonight. This number is approximately one-fifth of the entire homeless population.
Carl Pope | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green
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.
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A family of six in Avon P...
AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A Palm Springs man who was never in the military has been charged with wearing the Navy's highest honor. Federal prosecu...
Jim Gibbons | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
Goodwill fills a special need because it serves veterans who may feel shunned or misunderstood by other employment programs.
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...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
While embedded with Marines during the invasion of Iraq, journalist Mercedes Gallego was cautioned that it was not safe to be alone. The reason, the servicewomen explained, was fear of being raped.
Tom Matzzie | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
President Obama chose to spotlight the ultimate sacrifice that so many of America's servicemen and women have made -- and the military families who carry those sacrifices as well.
Larry Eason | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
Veterans of every generation deserve our thanks and support. Lets also send a message to those serving today who will soon be veterans that we will be there for them. Please join me in 11 million people giving $11 by 11/11/2011.
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Rajai Hakki has tried to ignore the Fort Hood massacre. The 28-year-old Iraq War vet quit college to join the U.S. Marines after the terrorist attack...
Huffington Post | Mathew Palevsky/Mallika Rao | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Thousands of American men and women have lost their lives in the Global War on Terror since it began in 2001. For the loved ones left behind, the MyS...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
I present the transcript of President Obama's remarks at yesterday's memorial service for those killed in the tragedy at Fort Hood in Texas.
Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
In honor of Veteran's Day, the HuffPost asked readers to send in stories and videos about those who served and how war has impacted your life. You can...
Posted 11.12.2009 | Style
Michelle Obama kicked off coat season when she attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, wearing a teal J. Crew coat over a tu...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, where they honored Veterans' Day and made a surprise v...
R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.
Eric Baylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
While the new GI bill increases support for tuition, books and expenses, it sorts veterans into two categories. Why are vets in online programs being segregated to determine our benefits?
HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
The 1.8 million U.S. troops who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan appreciate our gratitude this Veterans Day. But what they really want, says a ...
AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
WASHINGTON — Dozens of volunteers and passers-by are stopping by an American Red Cross building on Veterans Day to sign holiday greetings cards ...
Craig Crawford | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
This Veterans Day is a fine time to visit Soapbox Alert and help urge formal recognition for some WWII soldiers who liberated a prison camp.
Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Golden Corral will be holding its 9th annual Military Appreciation Monday dinner on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in all Golden Corral r...
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.
Posted 12.07.2009 | Impact