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Veterans Combat Feelings of Isolation with Flag-Carrying Relay through Nine States

By Janet Shamlian — 2021

Every year, more than 250,000 Americans transition from active duty to civilian life. Sometimes, that comes with feelings of isolation and loneliness.

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Gay War Veteran Speaks Out for Equal Rights in Ukraine’s Military

Viktor Pylypenko has become a role model for dozens of LGBT+ Ukrainian war veterans and their supporters since he organised their participation in Kyiv’s largest ever gay pride march.

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Margaryta Chornokondratenko
2021
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Four-Legged Friends Help a Veteran Keep Serving

"A dog or other animal in a veteran’s life is a great addition to the healing process."

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VFW
2021
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Man's Best Friend Is Healing Veterans

A short article and podcast about how specially trained dogs can help veterans with traumatic stress, brain injury and PTSD.

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Stephanie O'Neill, Rebecca Ramirez
2022
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Unbroken, Wounded Warriors Overcome Injury to Find New Strength

More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.

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Mandy Oaklander, Erik Tanner (photography)
2015
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The Transition You Never Asked For: Finding Meaning after Losing Your Military Career to Disability

You can build back your life

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Meredith Mathis
2021
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Military Benefits for Those Who Are Involuntarily Separated

Those involuntarily separated with an honorable discharge are also given specific military benefits to make the shift from the military to civilian life a little bit easier.

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Military.com
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Veterans Struggle with Issues that Are Often Invisible to Others

Thousands of veterans who served in the wars that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks struggle with issues that are often invisible to those around them. Some are suffering from health problems and trauma, and others from feelings of displacement and alienation.

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Jennifer Steinhauer
2021
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Soldiers Who Have Come Under Fire Often Find God

A study of American servicemen finds that those who have experienced combat become more devout

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The Economist
2018
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Fighting with Another Purpose

Soldiers are always supposed to be thinking. That’s what West Point teaches its cadets, who are officers in training. You’re supposed to question the orders you’re given, to see whether they conform to the Geneva Conventions and the laws of war.

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Leslee Goodman
2011
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Veterans and God’s Healing Love

A Christian Science perspective: We can trust in God’s tender, healing, infinite love, unimpeded by time and space, to reach veterans in need.

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Ingrid Peschke
2017
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Military to Civilian Re-entry