November 10, 2009 (AntiWar.com) - Veterans Day arrives tomorrow, and with it, the anticipated harvest of heartbreaking anecdotes driving the press coverage and our ever wandering attention back to less desirable realities: the disfigured but persevering hero, the homeless warrior, the unemployable sergeant, the father or son or daughter who came home a stranger and cannot be reached.

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?
 
November/December Issue (Boston Review) - When Roger Benimoff arrived at the psychiatric building of the Coatesville, Pennsylvania veterans’ hospital, he was greeted by a message carved into a nearby tree stump: “Welcome Home.” It was a reminder that things had not turned out as he had expected.

Veterans group was pushing lawmakers for more mental health counselors for soldiers

November 5, 2009 (Austin American-Statesman) Just as the tragedy was unfolding at Fort Hood, officials from a veterans group based in Austin were meeting in Washington with the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee to plead for more mental health counselors for U.S. soldiers coming home from war.

Obama greets caskets of returning Americans, President makes midnight visit to honor 18 personnel slain in Afghanistan

October 29, 2009, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware (MSNBC / Associated Press) - U.S. President Barack Obama saw first hand the human cost of the Afghanistan war Thursday as he saluted the flag-draped caskets of 18 soldiers and Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed in Afghanistan this week.