It’s not easy to program Veterans Day to wide approval. Some TV viewers want the manly Military Channel specials about strategy and warfare. Some want pure history and grainy footage. Some want yellow ribbons and emotions. Some can wade into the moral vagaries or go deep into the trauma of postwar mental illness and injury. Some just can’t go there at all. Read full article > >

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War, up close and personal: ‘Vietnam in HD’ and ‘Where Soldiers Come From’

As bright lights illuminated the House chamber Tuesday for the annual rite of Washington officialdom, the trauma surgeon and the congressional intern who saved the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords 17 days earlier joined the first lady in the gallery. Down below, a single seat in a sea of brown…

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A spirit of camaraderie, at least for a while

Exercises for wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords involve moving, sitting and standing, doctors say. Fluid on the brain remains and she’s not ready to move from the trauma center to the rehab institute, they say.

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