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Wounded Vets Helping in Boston
I spent the morning yesterday with John Wordin, the founder of Ride2Recovery–the excellent bicycle racing therapy program for wounded veterans. He told me that several of his members, who are amputees,...
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The Mission Continues
I spent last weekend watching 73 recent veterans, most of them wounded, begin a 6-month public service fellowship, sponsored by The Mission Continues, the excellent program run by former Navy SEAL,...
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Memorial Day in Oklahoma City
I spent Memorial Day weekend with Team Rubicon, the great veterans disaster relief organization. We fought the battle of SW 7th Street in Moore, Oklahoma. We deployed in the post-apocalyptic shadow of...
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Team Rubicon Helps Recovery Efforts After Oklahoma Tornado
Volunteers from Team Rubicon came from all over the country to spend their Memorial Day weekend helping residents of Moore, Okla., put their lives back together. Armed with chain saws, power tools,...
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Patriot Game: Groups Promote Hunting as Therapy for Veterans
Shortly before sunrise, the veterans received their instructions and marched into the darkness. Each man had a job. Some wore headlamps as they planted hundreds of decoys at precise intervals across...
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Secular Humanist Watch
Well, there’s been a bit of a kerfuffle about my observation in this week’s cover story, that you don’t see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals in disaster relief areas like...
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Government Shutdown: WW II Vets Say Feds Should Be Ashamed for Closing Their...
UPDATE: The National Park Service allowed World War II veterans to visit their memorial on the National Mall Wednesday despite the government shutdown. The decision — the park service said their visits...
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Obama, Congress: America’s Veterans Have Something to Say to You
Busloads of veterans who fought in Vietnam and Korea and World War II arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to tour memorials dedicated to their service. There was just one problem: Due to the...
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On Veterans’ Day: 3 Facts About the Nation’s Newest Veterans
Parents have been asking for a generation or more if their tyke’s woes are nature or nurture. America should be asking the same question about its military veterans. On Veterans’ Day — which is today,...
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Report: Suicide Rate Soars Among Young Vets
The number of male veterans under the age of 30 who commit suicide jumped by 44 percent between 2009 and 2011, the most recent year for which data was available, according to numbers released Thursday...
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Prisoner of War
We publish David Linley’s story in Time’s print edition this week, here. The one-time sergeant gave 17 years of his life to the Marine Corps, in four different war zones. But he snapped after coming...
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