The fanfare over Tuesday’s parade for the New York Giants has touched off anger and unease among some returned Iraq veterans, who are eagerly awaiting their own recognition.
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Calls for a New York Parade Honoring Iraq Veterans
President Obama will announce details Friday for a $1 billion Veterans Job Corps that the White House says will put up to 20,000 veterans to work over the next five years on projects to preserve and restore national parks and other federal, state and local lands. Read full article > >
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With help from a program that aids badly burned veterans, Joey Paulk received surgery that revived a measure of his self-confidence.
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The Hard Road Back | Scars of Battle: For Soldier Disfigured in Afghanistan, a Way to Return to the World
Even before the doors officially opened at 8 a.m. Wednesday for an enormous veterans job fair at the Washington Convention Center, hundreds of job-seekers had shown up and were going through security, getting in lines and signing up for interviews. Read full article > >
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Thousands of veterans line up in Washington for job fair
He says he supports veterans, but his record suggests otherwise.
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Santorum Swindled a Veterans Home
Reprehensible behavior, combat veterans and military experts say, is an ever-present risk when troops in their teens and early 20s are thrown into nerve-racking battle for months at a time.
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Reprehensible Behavior Is a Risk of Combat, Experts Say
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — More than a decade ago, before Gillette Stadium rose like a palace alongside Route 1 here, New England Patriots practice would close and the veterans would head back up the street to the cramped locker room in the base of old, embarrassing Foxboro Stadium, never home to the Super Bowl champs. A few young players lagged behind, working with position coaches, skeleton drills that amounted to the only competition of the week for those who had no chance of playing. Read full article > >
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Broncos vs. Patriots: Tim Tebow mania nearly makes Tom Brady an afterthought
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is set to present a strategy for $450 billion in cuts over the next 10 years — and an outline of a carefully shrunk military.
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The Next War: Pentagon to Present Vision of Reduced Military
Matthew Pennington has learned to live with the physical wounds of war, but a role as a soldier in a movie is helping him cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The Hard Road Back: Acting Helps Soldier Cope With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A journalist examines the unlikely campaign of five cold war veterans to eliminate our nuclear arsenal.
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The Partnership – Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb – By Philip Taubman – Book Review
The number of homeless veterans in the United States declined by nearly 12 percent between January 2010 and January 2011, according to figures being released Tuesday by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan called the decline “nothing short of extraordinary,” given the economic conditions in the country. Read full article > >
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Number of homeless vets down 12 percent, report says
Two visitors, their arrivals separated by a few hours, stop at a grave in Section 6, Row 5 of the Veterans Cemetery here. The burial grounds are cold and quiet. A few miles away at Fort Campbell, thousands of soldiers are preparing for yet another tour in Afghanistan. The first visitor arrives a little after 10 a.m. He is tall and lean, a 42-year-old Army officer. He wears a dark-blue dress uniform with four stripes on his right sleeve, each mark indicating six months spent in Afghanistan or Iraq. Read full article > >
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At Army base, intimate and isolated, a soldier’s death brings intense emotion
Some Maryland players said it felt like a dark cloud hovered over their team house during the entire 2009 season. Heart-wrenching losses, unforeseen injuries and overall misfortune marred a 10-loss season that they felt was the worst football experience they would ever endure. Then came this season. A loss Saturday at North Carolina State would give Maryland (2-9, 1-6 ACC) its second 10-loss season in the past three years. All factors considered, some veterans have said this season has been worse than the 2009 season that nearly cost then-Coach Ralph Friedgen his job. Read full article > >
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Maryland football thought nothing could top dismal 2009 season, until this year
The event was a Wall Street gala that raised millions of dollars for homeless veterans in New York City. Kid Rock sang a ballad about helplessness, frustration and loss. On cue, several hundred soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines strode into position around him. The black-tie crowd rose to its feet and cheered. Read full article > >
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