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On this Veterans Day, its worth remembering that the holiday originally was named Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end, on Nov. 11, 1918, of the “war to end all wars.”
By November 1954, it had become apparent that hadn’t quite…
Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division deploying in 2007. (Logan Mock-bunting / Getty Images)
Last fall, Congress approved spending $72 million to pay $500-a-month bonuses to military personnel whose active-duty service has been involuntarily extended by so-called “stop-loss” orders.
Nearly six…
My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…
