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...
Ryan McDermott | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Ordering the drafting of an implementation plan would be a tangible step forward in the right direction -- the President could make such an order today.
Charles London | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
The new film How To Fold a Flag shines a searing light onto the challenges facing returning soldiers.
Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
When it comes to their own, bliss-filled circles, many yogis feel right at home. Bring a foreign element to the door however, and you'll see that often, this sanctuary is then revealed as the dogma-house it really is.
Posted 11.28.2009 | Impact
The two lead actors of the television show "Friday Night Lights" visited wounded warriors, military family members and U.S. servicemembers with a mess...
HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact
Favorite Turkey Recipe? Check. Special occasion dishes and gravy boat? Check, check. Ways to express your gratitude this Thanksgiving? Don't worry, we...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Palin's saying Obama wasn't acknowledging the sacrifices of our troops can mean only two things: either her mind exists on an entirely different planet, or she knows she's being completely disingenuous.
David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Recently discharged vets are joining the swelling ranks of the country's unemployed. They bring to the job hunt both special skills and training and, often, the terrible traumas and injuries of their military experiences.
Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
When Brittany and Robbie Berquist were just pre-teens in 2005, they read about an Army reservist who faced a $7,600 bill for making calls home from Ir...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
Have trouble understanding modern art? Impact sought out some special exhibits that seek to make a change in the world, be it through raising awarenes...
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.16.2009 | 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. An organization that prov...
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.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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.
Jonathan Weiler | Posted 11.14.2009 | Sports
As an avid sports fan, I listen to sports talk on radio almost daily. And at this time of year - Veterans Day - one certainly gets one's fill of paeans to our men and women in uniform.
Brad Balfour | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
The Messenger -- being released this weekend -- is a film in which Harrelson tests his mettle and shines. Is it Oscar-worthy? "I think I did an okay job," Harrelson says.
Posted 11.13.2009 | Impact
On Veterans Day, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of Mission Serve, a network that links veterans to community service groups, calling u...
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-...
ABC News | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Rates of PTSD, which may or may not have played a role in Hasan's case, along with traumatic brain injuries, are soaring, and are a leading cause of s...
Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Veterans' Day has passed, but that doesn't mean we can't still enjoy these amazing videos of soldiers being greeted by their dogs from Mental Floss. V...
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...
Norman Solomon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
After 30 years of war, Afghans do not need more ingenious war efforts by the latest batch of best and brightest in Washington.
Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
If we must resort to handouts to save our country, let's at least put them in the hands of the most deserving. We should start with the roughly 2 million veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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.
Posted 12.07.2009 | Impact