Today is Veterans Day in the United States. It was once called Armistice Day,
marking the time the guns stopped in The Great War, at the eleventh
hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. When that
failed to be The War to End All Wars, the observance was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
This year the holiday is marked with a new web site for vets, Today’s G.I. Bill, a guide to education benefits for post-9/11 veterans that is more user-friendly than the Department of Veterans Affairs or active-duty military sites. The project is supported by the Lumina Foundation and the American Council on Education.
While implementation of the education benefit is not without problems, it has been more successful than other vet programs.
131,000 U.S. veterans will be homeless tonight. 5.5 million vets are living with a disability. Up to 35% of Iraq veterans experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). You can help. Look here to find out how.
Hat tip: Inside Higher Ed
Hear and read the stories of veterans in their own words at the website of Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center.
Image: Lumina Foundation.
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