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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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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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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A journalist examines the unlikely campaign of five cold war veterans to eliminate our nuclear arsenal.

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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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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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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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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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As the Queen leads the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, young fundraiser Lydia Cross, 10, tells the BBC’s Nick Higham how she raised £60,000 for war veterans.

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War veterans project aims to make us “think, and thank”

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CORONADO, Calif. — The Michigan State Spartans couldn’t feel too bad about losing 67-55 to No. 1 North Carolina in the Carrier Classic on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson. After all, President Barack Obama sat at midcourt as the teams played the first college hoops game on an active flat top. The Veterans Day game was conceived by Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis as a salute to the military. Most of the 8,111 fans were active-duty military. Read full article > >

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In what was “Top Gun” mixed with March Madness (in November) combined with Veterans Day, North Carolina and Michigan State played basketball on an aircraft carrier.

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Some stood amid headstones, fighting off chilly winds. Others gathered in chapels, in town squares and at marble halls. They were family members, friends and strangers, and they sought Friday to honor the sacrifices of the nation’s service members on Veterans Day. Among the most poignant and notable of ceremonies occurred in Arlington National Cemetery , where mourners left ornaments and trinkets by headstones and where hundreds of attendees — including President Obama — came to pay their respects. Read full article > >

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On the eve of Veterans Day, the Senate approved new measures to help unemployed former service members, advancing a modest piece of President Obama’s $447 billion jobs package with rare bipartisan support. The bill, approved Thursday on a rare unanimous 95-to-0 vote, would extend tax credits to businesses that hire unemployed veterans. It would also provide new dollars for retraining older unemployed veterans for high-demand fields and includes programs designed to make it easier to get civilian certifications for military training. Read full article > >

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