Topic: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

Camo Is The Next Pink

Forbes - 443 days ago
This post was written by Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.. The Department of Defense and the VA have, until recently, been accepted as the sole bodies responsible for taking care of our veterans. Their ...

IAVA Founder Paul Rieckhoff: "Our Veterans Need Our Help"

Big Think - 561 days ago
Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), visited the Big Think offices today to talk about veterans issues and the announced drawback from Iraq. Rieckhoff stressed that as combat operations come to a close in Iraq, the focus ...

AP ENTERPRISE: Vets wait for GI Bill payments

AP News - 785 days ago
Processing delays keep vets from receiving new GI Bill benefitsUniversities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school last fall under the new GI Bill, leaving the veterans panicked that they'll ...

The Populist Moment

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 860 days ago
New York Times" describing economic populism as the new flavor in politics. He argues that what is missing are the big ideas for fundamental change that will confront all of the manifestations of the U.S. decline. 4 FRED THOMPSON, NEOCON David ...

Quotations of the day

AP News - 962 days ago
" Rev. Jesse Jackson, explaining that Michael Jackson's family is seeking a second autopsy of the pop icon because of unanswered questions about how he died. But I think the DOD (Department of Defense) could do a better job at tracking what ...

Vets get an online forum. It's about time

CNET - 1191 days ago
I wish they had something like this after my discharge from the military. So it is Tuesday that a couple of nonprofits--the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and the Ad Council--debuted a social-networking site where veterans can get questions answered and ...