Mannen die zich in dienst van het leger van hun dappere kant hebben laten zien, krijgen meer kinderen en mogen zich verheugen in meer vrouwelijke aandacht. Dat suggereert nieuw onderzoek. Onderzoekers trekken die conclusie nadat ze veteranen uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog bestudeerden. Het ging om 449 ‘gewone’ Amerikaanse veteranen en 123 Amerikaanse veteranen die een …
Chuck Rotenberry can talk about the virtues of others, both man and dog, at length. The Marines he served with during two deployments, Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2011. How young they were. How eager. “To see what these Marines go through … they were hungry for it every day. Each day, they wake …
WASHINGTON — Congress could go from passing no major veterans legislation this session to passing every idea at once. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., this week introduced a wide-ranging package of veterans legislation, covering changes to the GI Bill, survivors’ benefits, advanced appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs and fertility treatments …
By Karen Nitkin, For The Baltimore Sun December 23, 2012 World War II veteran John Dicks, 86, has already given his country so much. And yet he finds that he wants to give more. The Baltimore resident volunteers two days a week at the Loch Raven VA Community Living & Rehabilitation Center, a facility within the …
By JAMES DAO (New York Times, 27 sept. 2012) For Dennis Selsky, a Vietnam-era veteran with multiple sclerosis, it was lost documents. It seemed that every time he sent records to the Department of Veterans Affairs, they disappeared into the ether. For Mickel Withers, an Iraq war veteran with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, it was a …
President Barack Obama called America’s treatment of its Vietnam veterans “a disgrace”, as he vowed that soldiers returning from the unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would not suffer the same dishonour. Speaking before a monument to the 60,000 Americans killed in Vietnam, Mr Obama said the war was “one of the most painful chapters …
By CHARLES D. ALLEN Retired Army Col. Charles D. Allen is the professor of leadership and cultural studies at the ArmyWarCollege. In the summer of 1932, amid the Great Depression, several thousand veterans of World War I gathered in the nation’s capital to express their discontent with theU.S.government. In particular, they came to protest the …
In het afgelopen decennium bouwden de Verenigde Staten grote troepenmachten op in Afghanistan en Irak. Nu het leger zich terugtrekt uit deze landen, krijgt Amerika een enorme toevloed van veteranen. De problemen die dit met zich mee brengt zijn hardnekkig. Tom Kleijn doet verslag. Amerika overspoeld met veteranen
A Groveport man who fought from Omaha Beach to St. Lo during World War II was awarded France’s highest honor during an intimate ceremony in Upper Arlington over the weekend. Marion C. Gray, 92, was appointed a Chevalier, a Knight of the Legion of Honor, at La Chatelaine French Bakery and Bistro on Sunday for …