This young many returned from foreign battles only to be attacked here at home.

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The 11.2% jobless rate for veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and who are 18 and older rose 4 percentage points in the past year.

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What does it mean to kill in combat? How are troops changed by that experience? And what makes some dedicated warriors refuse to do it anymore?

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The NYT reports: Most nights when Anthony Klecker, a former marine, finally slept, he found himself back on the battlefields of Iraq. He would awake in a panic, and struggle futilely to return to sleep.

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Media still freezing out anti-war veterans In March, dozens of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars gathered in Maryland to offer their firsthand accounts of what they had seen—and in some cases done—in both war zones.

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Yet another veteran of the Iraq war committed suicide over the weekend, this time in Indiana, as a kind of national mental health crisis deepens.

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HEY! (shaking you, dear reader)

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WSWS reports: Among the several hundred spectators who joined hundreds of members of the media and the Democratic and Republican Senators on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees was a fairly small, but particularly skeptical audience—a group of veterans returned  …

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Wondering what was that huge sucking noise over the weekend? It was the absence of any significant mass media coverage of the Winter Soldier testimony going on in Silver Spring, MD.

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Mr. Sepi did not like to venture outside too late. But, plagued by nightmares about an Iraqi civilian killed by his unit, he often needed alcohol to fall asleep.

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Injured soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan have been jeered out of a public swimming pool. Two women complained that the soldiers would scare children and that they should not be given precedence over paying customers.

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One of the more shocking photographs to emerge from the current Iraq war was taken last year in a rural farm town in the American Midwest. It's a studio portrait by the New York photographer Nina Berman of a young Illinois couple on their wedding day.

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Virtual reality research for Iraq war veterans is being funded by the Office of Naval Research, which in 2005 provided $4 million to several groups to examine how virtual reality can help treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Jeans Cruz and his contemporaries in the military were never supposed to suffer in the shadows the way veterans of the last long, controversial war did. One of the bitter legacies of Vietnam was the inadequate treatment of troops when they came back.

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WASHINGTON - Reacting to recent reports of suicides by Iraq war veterans in Minnesota and other states, the House on Wednesday directed the Veterans' Affairs Department to develop a suicide-prevention plan. The proposal, which was approved unanimously, seeks to better train VA  …

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