November 11, 2015 Veterans Day: We can't drop the ball on veterans' homelessness. Not now, not ever On Veterans Day it is imperative that we look beyond the pomp and pageantry to treat our homeless veterans.
November 11, 2015 Veterans and the hidden wounds of wars: Don't ignore traumatic brain injury, mental illness “You’re so lucky your husband came back unharmed,” was the oft-repeated phrase one Army wife told me made her inwardly furious, despite her outward smile. There is no natural response as a loved one when the internal injuries are both stigmatized and impossible to quantify, the way one can with a missing limb.
November 11, 2015 Two Navy SEAL veterans salute Operation Iraqi Freedom vets and all who served We wish to pay special tribute to the outstanding U.S. military servicemen and women that we served alongside through multiple deployments to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
November 11, 2015 Vietnam veterans' bond forged again with kidney donation Serving together in Vietnam, John Middaugh and Henry "Bill" Warner forged an Army-brothers bond they knew was profound and lasting.
November 10, 2015 Veterans Day: It's time to let our military focus on character not political agendas Social engineering should never be a part of military planning. It is always a recipe for disaster.
November 9, 2015 Treatment, not jail, for our veterans The brave men and women of our Armed Forces never fail our nation in battle, and we have a duty not to fail them after they re-enter civilian life.
October 24, 2015 Combat wounded push medical science in field of prosthetics The blood is not the most jarring part of the photograph taken shortly after the bomb blew off Marine Gunnery Sgt. Brian Meyer's leg and hand. It's his smile.
October 24, 2015 Former Army sergeant raising funds for hormone replacement therapy to treat soldiers with brain injury In the last 15 years, more than 330,000 members of the military were diagnosed with at least one traumatic brain injury (TBI).
September 18, 2015 Navy corpsman wounded in Afghanistan now a US Open ballperson Angelo Anderson’s speed and agility across the tennis court hides the fact that his leg is reinforced by a titanium rod that runs from his knee to his hip, and that he once couldn’t bend it past 45 degrees.
September 12, 2015 Jerry Coleman, legendary broadcaster, Marine pilot, dies at 89 Jerry Coleman, a former second baseman for the New York Yankees and Hall of Fame broadcaster who interrupted his pro career to fly as a Marine Corps pilot in World War II and Korea, died Sunday after a brief illness, the San Diego Padres said. He was 89.
