Being on the Gettysburg Battlefield, I understood service and sacrifice to one's country in a way that I have never understood it before.
Joe Trippi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
The objective the Eleven Eleven Campaign is simple: to get 11 million Americans to donate $11 to support America's Veterans.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
I was surprised that it was a psychiatrist that shot a lot of people. It's no longer surprising to me that returning veterans would kill a bunch of people. But this guy was a psychiatrist who hadn't been deployed.
Joe Bonsall | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
A few years ago, I wrote a song about a young couple that served in the army during World War II. The song is about faith, patriotism and plain old American grit -- desire and hard work. It is the story of my parents.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
The most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the 11 people who died in the melee will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact
Combat Paper is presenting a creative way for veterans to contextualize what they've seen in war. Their goal is to help veterans use art to reconcile ...
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.04.2009 | Impact
Nathan Thompson and Joe Lusk went through West Point together. As huge football fans, they planned to take a road trip across America and stop at all ...
Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact
Move over, e-mail. The virtual greeting just won't cut it this holiday season, as the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowles have teamed up for the thir...
Wall Street Journal | By YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel af...
AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.01.2009 | Style
BY CHRISTINE SIMMONS, AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fr...
Ron Kovic | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Many of us who served in Vietnam promised ourselves long ago that we would never again allow what happened to us in that war to ever happen again. We have an obligation to protest. To speak out.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
With the noise clogging the media landscape, it's hard to get the public to pay attention to anything important. Fortunately, some extremely talented musicians are working to change that.
Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Nutcase. Psycho. Unbalanced. These are some of the words I've been tagged with since being diagnosed with PTSD. Our society's image of the returning warrior with PTSD has been framed by Hollywood.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Obama made an important point, saying that while innovation and discovery have always been part of the American DNA, there is no guarantee that we will lead the world in clean energy.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
I left home a week after my first child was born to serve my country honorably in Afghanistan, and Pennsylvania State Representative Deryl Metcalfe thinks I'm a traitor.
David Roberts | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Since the summer, greens have had one good break after another. Unlike after An Inconvenient Truth, the latest dramas are not pop culture events, but political achievements inside the Beltway.
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...
Joel Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Sun Valley Adaptive Sports (SVAS) is a nonprofit project funded by the Annenberg Foundation to support wounded warriors with their recovery and reintegration into society.
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Soldier On is an organization that works to get homeless veterans off the streets and into housing. One particular housing project will use photovoltaic technology to power its 39 apartments.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Impact
Miller Lite is promoting Veteran's Day in a significant way this year, with a goal to raise $500,000 for Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that support...
Jonathan Powers | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
Hundreds of veterans like myself have joined forces with a coalition of nation security organizations to form Operation FREE to raise awareness about the links between climate change and national security.
Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
I learned the hard way that the war doesn't stop when our boots touch home soil again, it just changes form. We're tough guys who don't need help. For generations, that's been the ethos in the military.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home
More than 30,000 single mothers have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army, the most heavily deployed branch of the military, gives women just four months to stay stateside with their newborns.
AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home
LYNN, Ind. — An ex-Marine who served in Iraq has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of a police officer after firing on police. ...
Kate Kelly | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics