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By Holly Kernan on Dec 7 2011 - 5:49pm
In October, President Obama declared that a major chapter in American military history was about to come to a close...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be...
By Lindsey Lee Keel on Nov 15 2011 - 4:29pm
The blues can be sexy ... sultry ... deeply emotional. Lyrics that cut right to the bone. Instrumentals that cry out from the soul. You can listen to it ... feel it. Or you can move to it and become part of the music. Some people say dancing to the blues is transformative, tapping into something we...
By Lindsey Lee Keel on Sep 26 2011 - 4:00pm
Carolin Kunze’s fiancé Matt Fuller, was a cavalry scout in the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. The two had only just begun their life together when Matt’s post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms became a challenge to their relationship. Between his two deployments in Afghanistan, they...
By Lilah Crews-Pless on Sep 14 2011 - 4:43pm
Over the past few months, KALW News has been bringing you stories from veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands are returning home every month, re-entering civilian life – and facing challenges and obstacles all along the way.
Experts estimate that about 20% of new veterans are...
By Lilah Crews-Pless on Sep 14 2011 - 4:33pm
Veterans with untreated PTSD are more likely to wind up in the criminal justice system.
JOHN GALVAN: You get rage you can’t understand and you can’t control it. When I got arrested I was telling the police, “You need to get me away from this situation. There’s a high potential that I’m gonna do...
By Priscilla Yuki Wilson on Aug 22 2011 - 5:56pm
Next month is the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and of the war in Afghanistan that followed. About 5,200 soldiers deployed to Afghanistan in the initial months following the September 11 attacks; another 67,000 went to Iraq less than two years later. Over the years those troop levels have...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Jun 7 2011 - 4:27pm
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV/AIDS. In early June of 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a new strain of pneumonia specifically affecting gay men. As the devastatingly contagious disease spread throughout communities, it revolutionized the...
By Crosscurrents Producer on May 31 2011 - 5:55pm
The United States military is filled with Americans looking to make a difference in the world. But it also includes many people who cannot claim this as their home country. According to the Center for Naval Analysis, 8,000 non-citizens enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces every year. Many join...
By Shani Aviram on May 25 2011 - 4:45pm
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Bay Area was a center for activism against the war in Vietnam. Some of those protestors happened to be returning veterans, and many of those vets are still protesting for peace today. Joining them are some servicemembers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan – people like...
By Laura Flynn on May 25 2011 - 4:24pm
In 2009 President Obama announced that the GI Bill would get $78 billion more funding to help post 9/11 veterans go back to school.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Today we honor the service of an extraordinary generation and look to the America that they will help build tomorrow. With the post 9/11 GI...
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