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.
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living
Michelle and Tal offered me their cottage for a week this summer. Prime time on a northern lake. How could I say no? One morning I slipped down to th...
AP | JULIE PACE and KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
FAIRFAX, Va. — President Barack Obama said Monday a new GI Bill for those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan is an investment in both a new gene...
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
Operation Heroes and Hounds is a way to support the men and women who served our country, and give a second chance to the animals who ended up in shelters through no fault of their own.
Chris Gunn | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Johnson proposed the "Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act of 2009," to provide small businesses across the country with billions of dollars in additional contracting opportunities.
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Freshman Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) announced his first legislative initiative on Monday -- a bill to provide service dogs to wounded veterans. Franke...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
This tale recounts the interwoven fate of an Air Force Chief of Staff, potentially disastrous handling of nuclear weapons, and a financial advising company with more than 300,000 military personnel as investors.
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.
Bronx News | Dan Gesslein | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York
Despite the rough economy, New Era Vets will throw their annual Bronx block party on July 25th, trying to raise money to provide services to war veter...
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.
USA Today | Mary Brophy Marcus, | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics
Veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a significantly higher risk of developing dementia compared with veterans who don't...
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.
Richard Klass | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
No soldier fully survived Vietnam, and no one will survive the current wars unscathed.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics
On the eve of our Grand Celebration of the extraordinary decree that declared us a free republic, we find ourselves chained to the wreckage of a brutally flawed casus belli.
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...
Joseph A. Violante | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
This Independence Day, we have a lot to celebrate, including a major, historic congressional victory for veterans.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
Pass this message on so that all may know the price of freedom
Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media
The on-line and on-air campaign, anchored by Ning-based CommunityofVeterans.org, was established to support veterans coming home. The first quarter brought in $26 million in donated media.
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.
Craig Newmark | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
Hey, things continue to turn around for those who sacrifice so much for us. President Signs Two Major Provisions for New Veterans into Law "Washi...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
On today's Wilshire & Washington, we have a very special guest: Adam Kokesh, a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and a veteran of the Iraq War.
Doug Stanton | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
When I was writing my first book In Harm's Way, I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
France enjoys the benefit of a National Health Program or 'assurance maladie.' Typically, social protection and health care work in combination and that is a concept widely accepted in Europe.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
Congress stood up for veterans this week, and delivered retroactive overtime payments for our stop-lossed troops, a new education benefit for children of servicemembers killed since 9/11, and increased VA funding.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics