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Does the U.S. Government Support the Troops? What about the Canadian government?
The hidden face of our injured soldiers - Soldiers seriously wounded in Afghanistan must continue to fight at home — with bureaucrats and the military, as well as their own injuries, a Star investigation reveals. Remains of 274 U.S. troops dumped in landfill: Report - The US Air Force dumped the cremated, partial remains of at least 274 troops in a landfill before halting the secretive practice in 2008, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Jobless in Idaho: Soldiers Struggle to Translate War Experience into Work
As Wars End, Young Veterans Return to Scant Jobs - In Afghanistan, Cpl. Clayton Rhoden earned about $2,500 a month jumping into helicopters to chase down improvised explosive devices or check out suspected bomb factories. Now he lives with his parents, sells his blood plasma for $80 a week and works what extra duty he can get for his Marine Corps Reserve unit.
U.S. Vets, Suffering From Unemployment and Homelessness, Support Occupy Protests - "There's a lot of solidarity with the Occupy movement. A lot of the same issues that the veteran population is contending with is linked with the Occupy protests in terms of economic equality and a disappearing middle class."
Jobless veterans say military experience is not valued
Veterans' nursing home privatized - Private guard brags about breaking Veterans' fingers
Job Numbers Are Up, but Veterans Are Left Behind
Active-Duty Soldiers Take Their Own Lives at Record Rate
Soldiers just back from Iraq get new orders: Afghanistan
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