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Anne Winkler-Morey> Honor Veterans! Stop Making Them!
Honor Veterans! Stop Making Them! From June 2011 to August 2012 my partner David and I rode our bicycles 12,200 miles, from our home in Minneapolis around the perimeter of the United States. On the trip we observed a puzzling contradiction. People overwhelmingly oppose the current wars, yet young people are still signing up to […]
Vets Confront Mental Health Crisis, Soldier Suicides and Violence
On Afghan War 11th Anniversary The Right Wing Shafts Our Veterans Suicide and the Soldier Amy Goodman, Democracy Now ! Submitted by David Culver October 5, 2012 | On the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, we take a look at the invisible wounds of war here at home. Since the war began […]
But What About the Other 1 Percent: the Veterans?
Veterans are “the other one percent.” But the tiny minority of Americans who carry the heavy burden of war face enormous challenges that neither presidential candidate is addressing. There are about 2.4 million veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly a million of whom may still carry with them a heavy burden of war, in the […]
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