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And for the veterans in particular, the V.A. said there's a six-fold increase in mental health pharmaceuticals by vets since 2003.
It was a court only for veterans who had broken the law.
He's doing some amazing work now with veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
For those of us on the ground in those early days, it was clear for even the most disaster-hardened veterans that Haiti was something different.
Glenn Gray: Many veterans will admit that the experience of communal effort in battle has been the high point of their lives.
Some of you may or may not know that he runs a soup kitchen in New Jersey, where he caters to and serves the homeless and particularly homeless veterans.
And inspired by what I learned from Nathaniel, I started an organization on Skid Row of musicians called Street Symphony, bringing the light of music into the very darkest places, performing for the homeless and mentally ill at shelters and clinics on Skid Row, performing for combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, and for the incarcerated and those labeled as criminally insane.
Two years ago, after having served four years in the United States Marine Corps and deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, I found myself in Port-au-Prince, leading a team of veterans and medical professionals in some of the hardest-hit areas of that city, three days after the earthquake.
Military veterans are very, very good at disaster response.
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.
Well, we can use disaster response as an opportunity for service for the veterans coming home.
Recent surveys show that 92 percent of veterans want to continue their service when they take off their uniform.
And we can use veterans to improve disaster response.
But you drop 25 of those veterans in Joplin, Missouri, they get that sense of community back.
I think it's very important, because right now somebody needs to step up, and this generation of veterans has the opportunity to do that if they are given the chance.
And under the guidance of the amazing Lear deBessonet, we started the Public Works program, which now every summer produces these immense Shakespearean musical pageants, where Tony Award-winning actors and musicians are side by side with nannies and domestic workers and military veterans and recently incarcerated prisoners, amateurs and professionals, performing together on the same stage.
It can pretty much do anything, but it's 20,000 dollars, and to give you a sense of who wears this, veterans, American veterans coming back from Afghanistan or Iraq would be fit with something like this.
The fact is, we have literally 2.6 million men and women who are veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan who are all amongst us.
He comes back and instead of deciding that, well, now since I've lost my leg, that second dream is over, he decides that he still has that dream of playing baseball, and he starts this group called VETSports, which now works with veterans all over the country and uses sports as a way of healing.
And now she uses her voice as a Congresswoman from Illinois to fight and advocate for a collection of issues to include veterans issues.
Canine veterans of conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan are coming back with what's considered canine PTSD, and they're having a hard time reentering civilian life when they come back from deployments.
This is them actually on the first day that they met, which is amazing, and since then, they've spent a lot of time together visiting with other veterans suffering from similar issues.
For over a decade as a doctor, I've cared for homeless veterans, for working-class families.
There were demonstrations of veterans in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
It was supposed to be for a photo shoot that was going to take place on the steps where the veterans were at that time.
Here are the people I know: I know Catholics who are pro-choice, and feminists who wear hijabs, and veterans who are antiwar, and NRA members who think I should be able to get married.
But it's also nurses, veterans and even schoolteachers who fall into the mass of 37 million people a year who are unable to afford energy for their most basic needs.
It's impacting the students trying to go to college, the single mothers trying to get health care, the veterans coming home from battle.
So what would it look like if it was actually as easy to get student loans or veterans' benefits as it is to order cat food to my house?
For my second example, I want to bring it back to veterans for a second, and what we are doing to build them a VA that is worthy of their service and their sacrifice.
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