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But What About the Other 1 Percent: the Veterans?

Fri, 10/12/2012 - 16:31 — Dave Culver
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  • Veterans are "the other one percent." But the tiny minority of Americans who carry the heavy burden of war face enormous challenges that neither presidential candidate is addressing.
  • There are about 2.4 million veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly a million of whom may still carry with them a heavy burden of war, in the form of wounds, diseases or chronic conditions.
  • Vets Confront Mental Health Crisis, Soldier Suicides and Violence

Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post

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October 11, 2012 | Ordinarily, when the U.S. is at war, there would be some discussion of that war in the presidential campaign.

In the 2012 election cycle, however, the public has been left largely in the dark when it comes to the candidates' views on the war the U.S. is still fighting in Afghanistan, or the war the U.S. recently stopped fighting in Iraq.

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Vets Confront Mental Health Crisis, Soldier Suicides and Violence, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

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  • The Right Wing Shafts Our Veterans
  • Suicide and the Soldier

 
 

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