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November 11, 2010

On Veterans Day, Remember the Women

By Catherine Traywick, Campus Progress, USA - America so valorizes military service, relentlessly commemorating the fallen in rich and myriad ways. Yet we demonstrate remarkably less regard for the scores of men and women who make it home alive. Today, soldiers returning from deployment are thrust into civilian society as abruptly as they were once thrust into war—finding little, if any, infrastructure to help them with a critical transition.

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