In the movies, veterans tend to be tough, male, white, so I expected that, like the movies, I would find the typical strong man who protected our country.
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I Asked Him About the Best Part of His Service–“Everybody Looked Out for Each Other.”
We went into the basement and he broke out old boxes and uniforms. As he went through them with me, he talked.
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“The Enemy Is Lurking in Our Bodies”—Women Veterans Say Toxic Exposure Caused Breast Cancer
As the last troops leave the “forever wars,” doctors say they’re seeing more women veterans with breast cancer—younger than the national average.
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Corpsman-Turned-Covid-19 Frontliner: Delta Isn’t a “Political Stunt”
“Why did you fall asleep at the wheel?” My answer: It’s a pitfall of being a juggler in the largest ongoing circus in the world—the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks
“Good things happened after the bad,” writes Eric Chandler. But 20 years on, there is a painful contrast to the national unity that followed the attacks.
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From Deployment to Homecoming. And a Pregnancy During Lockdown.
Four days after he returned home from deployment, our first lockdown in England began. We went from extreme separation to extreme togetherness.
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Are Service Members Heroes, Victims, or Villains? You decide.
“My West Point siblings are neither convenient scapegoats nor two-dimensional nerd-warriors. They are first and foremost my siblings.”
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A Tramadol Overdose, Delivered by Mail. “I Was Addicted. It Was Easy to Get Them.”
The drug abuse began when the military prescribed Tramadol for back pain. Then the VA mailed him bottles of pills. Until he overdosed in front of his kids.
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Remembering the Service and Sacrifice of Muslim Veterans Among the Crescents and Stars of Arlington National Cemetery
During a trip to Arlington to honor Muslim veterans, an Air Force officer reflects on how her career of military service began the daughter of Pakistani immigrants..
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A Military Child Learns What It Means to Be an American. By Leaving.
A Military Child Learns What It Means to Be an American. By Leaving – “So, where are you from?”… I didn’t know where I was from.
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Becoming a Veteran After Choosing to Forget My Military Service at Fort Hood
As a woman, I never knew if a soldier was approaching me to correct a crooked beret or to ask for my number,” writes an Army veteran of Fort Hood.
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Aperol Spritzes and Dreams of Post-Pandemic Biergartens in Lindau
Marriage counseling alongside soldiers from Special Operations Command was not what a military spouse imagined for her first trip to Europe.
