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As Riadh Guerfali, the veteran digital activist from Tunisia, remarked over this incident, "Before, things were simple: you had the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other.
And how futile seemed the words of advice to me from great British veteran conductor Sir Colin Davis who said, "Conducting, Charles, is like holding a small bird in your hand.
She walked out of the plane and spoke to the whole press as if she was a veteran.
And when I complained to my grandmother, a World War II veteran who worked in film for 50 years and who supported me from the age of 13, that I was terrified that if I turned down a plum assignment at ABC for a fellowship overseas, I would never ever, ever find another job, she said, "Kiddo, I'm going to tell you two things.
The second problem that we became aware of was a very inadequate veteran reintegration, and this is a topic that is front page news right now as veterans are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and they're struggling to reintegrate into civilian life.
But after Clay, we shifted that focus, and suddenly, now moving forward, we see ourselves as a veteran service organization that's using disaster response.
Because we think that we can give that purpose and that community and that self-worth back to the veteran.
In a recent trial we just wrapped up at the Media Lab, one of our patients, a U.S. veteran who has been an amputee for about 20 years and worn dozens of legs, said of one of our printed parts, "It's so soft, it's like walking on pillows, and it's effing sexy."
Now, veteran officers and psychologists train new officers.
I'm a veteran of the starship Enterprise.
He was a Vietnam veteran.
Then we experimented with an apprenticeship model where we paired new staff with veteran staff.
His name is Lonnie Hodge, and he's a veteran of Vietnam.
Because to a veteran aid worker, the idea of putting cold, hard cash into the hands of the poorest people on Earth doesn't sound crazy, it sounds really satisfying.
This is something that veteran politicians understand, but that civil society groups generally do not do very well.
"As a veteran defending the flag, I personally would never defend your stupid ass!
It is the master's eldest daughter, age 15, who is already a veteran of marriage and child birth.
A veteran of the TED stage is my friend Jonathan Haidt.
137 is the average number of days a veteran has to wait to have benefits processed by the VA.
Vets.gov is a simple, easy-to-use website that brings all of the online services a veteran needs into one place.
It's just as vital that we protect the next veteran's health care whistleblower alerting us to overcrowded hospitals, or the next environmental worker sounding the alarm about Flint's dirty water, or a Wall Street insider warning us of the next financial crisis.
Yet, when we consider the experience of the modern-day combat veteran, we begin to see that we have not been as good at preparing them to come home.
Seven have even seen their films made in the last three years, including the film "Nightingale," the story of a war veteran's psychological decline, in which David Oyelowo's face is the only one on screen for the film's 90-minute duration.
What is better for you, for me, for a white woman, a gay man, a veteran, a child with a prosthetic?
And by HUD's definition, we've gotten to functional zero, which means we've literally ended veteran homelessness in the city of Albuquerque, by being intentional.
A veteran of several expeditions, Amundsen had long dreamed of reaching the North Pole.
My father was a Vietnam veteran who earned a Purple Heart and made it home to find love, marry, and begin his own brood.
He proved that with Navy veteran Mike.
He's repairing relationships with his family, and just last month, he graduated from Judge Bowen's veteran's court.
Aimee Corrigan, a very talented and young photographer, and Robert Caputo, a friend and a mentor, who is a veteran of National Geographic, and told me, "You know, Franco, in 25 years of covering Africa, I don't know if I have come across a story that is so full of hope and so fun."
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