By Julie Beck — 2019
"It was a lot more than just cavalry guys getting together. We really became true family."
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Combat to College is the book for veterans who need to win the college battle. Veterans must utilize the unique skills and discipline gained in the military to succeed in higher education.
On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G.I. Bill.
Many Vietnam veterans felt and, in fact, still feel rejected by their God and the church and betrayed by their nation and even their families.
Most have of us have seen the unsettling images of American flags fastened to the outside of tents at a homeless encampment called "Veteran's Row" in Los Angeles. Rob Reynolds's passion is to support homeless veterans navigate services to get the help they need.
Through a partnership between the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center Art Therapy Program and The Armory Art Center, Veterans have participated in free therapeutic art classes with Armory Instructors and Therapists.
At Standing Rock Reservation, veterans take a knee before indigenous leaders and ask forgiveness on behalf of the United States. Featuring Leonard Crow Dog and Wesley Clark, Jr.
Working with US Army combat veterans for over three years Judah Pollack discusses his insight that resiliency is a product of communities, of human networks. The culture of the Army is less accepting of traditional therapy. But the culture is built on the power of soldiers supporting each other.
GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II, a feature-length documentary broadcast on national public television in April, 2018, tells the profound and unique story of Jewish Americans in World War II—men and women who fought for their nation and their people, struggled privately with anti-Semitism,...
Soldiers who identify as Muslim have fought in every major US conflict since the Revolutionary War.
Veterans make up 5.9% of the American working age population. But in the National Park Service, veterans make up 26% of the workforce.